How to setup a manifest-server

[Chih-Wei]

I'm trying to use 'repo sync -t ...' feature. It seems to

need a manifest-server defined in the manifest.xml, right?

I searched the web but can't find any info about how to

implement a manifest server.

Could anyone provide some hints or examples for it?

Especially what the repo client will request

and what the server should reply?

Thanks a lot!

Regards,

[Shawn Pearce]

The only documentation on this is in `repo help sync`. After that, you
will need to grep the repo source code for the relevant variable
strings and see how that code operates.

IIRC its a simple HTTP interface, data from environment variables is
passed in an HTTP GET query string and an XML manifest file is
returned.

[Dmitry Fink]

I've pushed a very minimalistic implementation of a manifest xmlrpc server using node.js to https://github.com/finik/manifest_server

For now it ignores all the parameters and just returns static test.xml file for any request, but it can easily be extended.

It's an old thread and probably the author doesn't care about it anymore, but it is the only thread that keeps appearing

when one googles for these keywords (I guess manifest server is not a very widely used feature), hopefully my implementation will be of help to someone.

[David Pursehouse]

> The only documentation on this is in `repo help sync`.
>

There's also some documentation of the RPC methods in docs/manifest-format.txt but it's incomplete.

I've uploaded a patch [1] to enhance it a bit.

> I searched the web but can't find any info about how to

> implement a manifest server.

> Could anyone provide some hints or examples for it?

>

If you happen to be running Django, the rpc4django package [2] would be worth looking at.

[1] https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/#/c/37550/
[2] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/rpc4django/

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David