RFC: allow rest api to filter patches by hash

[Stephen Finucane]

On Thu, 2018-11-22 at 09:58 -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> Hi, all:
> 
> I was looking into integrating git with some of the projects so that
> applied patches can be auto-accepted and archived and I found out that
> while the XMLRPC API knows how to look up a patch by its hash, the REST
> API is not able to filter patches by hash. The main reason I wanted to
> stick to the REST API is because it allows me to use an API token
> instead of a username/password.
> 
> So, two questions, really -- is the goal to retain both APIs, or is the
> REST API supposed to eventually fully replace the other?

Yes, the XML-RPC API should go away in 3.0.

>  And if that is
> the case, would it be possible to teach the REST API how to filter by
> hash?

Yeah, we should probably add this. I imagine we could expose this at
the top-level API, along with numeric IDs and message-ID (coming soon).
Just need someone to write that patch, I guess, as I don't know when
I'll have time to do it myself.

Stephen

PS: Sorry for the massively delayed reply: Patchwork has taken a back
seat to some other side projects of mine over the past few months.

> Thanks,
> -K
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