[PATCH RFC] events-api: allow filtering by date

[Andrew Donnellan]

On 15/06/17 09:59, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> Aaron Conole <aconole at bytheb.org> writes:
>
>> Aaron Conole <aconole at bytheb.org> writes:
>>
>>> This commit allows users of the REST API to query for events based on
>>> the date field.  This will allow utility writers to select a smaller
>>> subset of events when polling.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole at bytheb.org>
>>> ---
>>
>> It should be noted that my motivation for this is to implement a git-pw
>> event poll command for CI integration.
>>
>> If you think there's a better way of achieving this, let me know.
>
> You should check out Snowpatch: Andrew Donnellan and Russell Currey (on
> this list) are the developers.
>
> https://developer.ibm.com/open/openprojects/snowpatch/
>
> I don't know how they do it but I'm sure they'd be happy to explain it
> at length :)

We don't currently use the events API at all - we just poll the patches 
API at fixed intervals and look for patches that don't already have test 
results. We might change this approach in future.

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Andrew Donnellan              OzLabs, ADL Canberra
andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com  IBM Australia Limited