[RFC PATCH 01/16] patman: Use test_util to show test results

[Stephen Finucane]

On Tue, 2020-07-07 at 11:09 +1000, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> writes:
> 
> > Hi Daniel,
> > 
> > On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 at 22:50, Daniel Axtens <dja at axtens.net> wrote:
> > > Daniel Axtens <dja at axtens.net> writes:
> > > 
> > > > Hi Simon,
> > > > 
> > > > I can't see a cover letter so apologies if I've misunderstood something
> > > > basic, but this doesn't appear to apply to the patchwork tree - I'm
> > > > guessing the patchwork relevance is with regards to the last few patches
> > > > that (AFAICT) parse the patchwork web interface for information?
> > > 
> > > Ah, nevermind, the cover letter got caught in moderation. I've released it.
> > > 
> > > pwclient speaks the old, less documented XML-RPC API. We have a new
> > > REST API which is much better documented, and is explorable
> > > (e.g. https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/api/ and
> > > https://patchwork.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/rest/ )
> > > 
> > > > I haven't fully digested the patches (and I lack a lot of context) but
> > > > is there a reason the patchwork API isn't able to meet your needs here?
> > > > (And if so, could we extend it rather than having you parse the frontend?)
> > > 
> > > So these questions still stand but for the REST API.
> > 
> > So use the REST API instead of the web page? That sounds fine to me.
> > Is it generally enabled on patchwork servers?
> 
> I mean patman is your code so it's ultimately not my call :P But yes,
> I'd strongly prefer you used the REST API! It is enabled on ozlabs.org
> and kernel.org and has been for a while (~a couple of years).
> 
> > What is the status of pwclient? Is it dead? Is there a replacement?
> > I'd love to use a Python library if one exists.
> 
> Stephen F is the expert on the client stuff, so I'm not going to make a
> call on the status of pwclient. All I am confident to say is that I have
> migrated to using 'git-pw' and I recommend others do so to too.

pwclient is alive and won't be going anywhere, but it's still using the
now-deprecated XML-RPC API. Eventually this will move to the REST API,
but I just haven't found the time to do so yet.

> I'm not sure if a dedicated Python client library exists: the last time
> I wanted to write a Python client app I found it simple enough to just
> use the JSON that the API provides directly. But the place I'd start
> with is git-pw.

There's no patchwork SDK yet and git-pw is intended for use as a tool
rather than a library (the internal API isn't stable). However, the
Patchwork API itself is very trivial so requests should get you what
you want very easily.

Stephen

> Regards,
> Daniel
> 
> > Regards,
> > SImon