Can you retrieve list of tags via RSS API?

[Gerard Smyth]

Hi all,

I am trying to get a list of all the tags in a repository via the RSS (or JSON) API but I am not sure whether this is currently possible.

From what I can see all the info I need is returned in the RSS feed, but I would have to get every commit, and then manually pick out just those that have a tag ref applied to them.  Ideally I would like this filtering to happen on the server as this would greatly reduce the amount of info being returned and processed.  Is there any way of doing this at the moment? Perhaps via a search type value?

Many thanks for any help you can provide.

Regards,
Gerard

[James Moger]

Use the LIST_REPOSITORIES RPC request, pull out the repo from the
list, and then iterate over the available refs.

Example: https://dev.gitblit.com/rpc?req=list_repositories
(this is more clear with something like JSONView for FireFox/Chrome)

-J

[Gerard Smyth]

Thanks for the quick response.

For each tag I also need to know the tagger, when it was created, the tag message, and the associated commit id.

Would the best approach to get this info be to call the feed URL for each one? eg https://dev.gitblit.com/feed/mirrors/Font-Awesome.git?h=refs/tags/v4.0.3&l=1

Is the message etc returned by this for the tag or the commit?

Many thanks for your help.

Gerard

[James Moger]

The returned data is the commit. The tag data is not currently
retrievable by the RSS feed nor the RPC api.

-J

[gerard...@gmail.com]

Ok, thanks for the info.

If I wanted to look at adding this capability can you provide any pointers as to where to look?

Many thanks,

Gerard

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[James Moger]

Since the RSS feed is the only place where commits are exposed as
retrievable data, I would start with the SyndicationServlet and add
special handling for tags.

-J

[Gerard Smyth]

Thanks for the info.
I think I have got something working for me.

Is this something you would be interested in accepting a patch for?  I'd rather be using a released version if possible.

If so, what is your approach for this?

Many thanks,
Gerard

[James Moger]

At the moment I prefer pull requests - Github or Bitbucket. If/when
Gitblit gets OpenID authentication then we can add Tickets to the mix.

-J

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[Gerard Smyth]

Hi,

I tried to create a pull request for this a few weeks ago, but I'm pretty new to this git stuff, so in case I've done something wrong I thought I would post here. :)

Hopefully you can see the details on GitHub at https://github.com/gitblit/gitblit/pull/165

Please let me know if you have any issues, or need me to change anything.

Thanks,
Gerard

[James Moger]

Hi Gerard,

You did the pull request correctly.  I need to make the time to review.

-J