Issue #5547: API for searching repos - fedora-infrastructure

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#5547 API for searching repos

Closed: Fixed Nov 3, 2016 Opened Nov 2, 2016 by cqi.

There are several front-ends package tools built on top of rpkg, which work with dist-git for packagers. To be more friendly for packagers and newbies, rather than opening a browser and go to pkgs.*.org, for example pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/, it would be much handy to make those front-ends be able to search from dist-git to discover repositories they are interested in. It would be done by

fedpkg search python

as a result, all repositories that contains keyword python will be shown. Furthermore, this could also support to search by namespace.

An API provided by dist-git to search repositories will benefit package tools and make above feature possible. I'm not sure whether dist-git has any APIs currently that could be used for the search feature.

pingou commented Nov 2, 2016

fedpkg search could call pkgdb's API

I am not sure dist-git would be the best place for this as it would/could also return repos that are no longer available/maintained while pkgdb won't and should be anyway a 1:1 mapping of what's in dist git.

cqi commented Nov 2, 2016

@pingou

What does "no longer available" mean here, retired or something else?

Does /api/packages/ only list packages that are not retired?

pingou commented Nov 2, 2016

What does "no longer available" mean here, retired or something else?

Retired yes

Does /api/packages/ only list packages that are not retired?

Not by default but it can be asked to: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/api/#list_packages

cqi commented Nov 2, 2016

Not by default but it can be asked to: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/api/#list_packages

This link is just the /api/packages/. Which argument can be used to filter out retired packages?

pingou commented Nov 2, 2016

This link lists all the arguments that can be passed on to this API endpoint such as:
status: Allows to filter packages based on their status: Approved, Orphaned, Retired, Removed.

cqi commented Nov 2, 2016

Oh, why didn't I notice this. :( Thanks for your time.

cqi commented Nov 2, 2016

How to pass multiple status to status? I just tried https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/api/packages/?status=Orphaned,Approved&pattern=python&count=True, but looks it doesn't work. I'd like to filter out Approved and Orphaned packages.

Edited Nov 2, 2016 by cqi

pingou commented Nov 2, 2016

That would be it: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/api/packages/?&status=Approved&status=Orphaned&pattern=python&count=True

cqi commented Nov 2, 2016

This is really really helpful. Thank you very much. :)

pingou commented Nov 2, 2016

There is also pkgdb-cli if you want a CLI tool :)

kevin commented Nov 2, 2016

So, should we close this now? Or is there anything more to do here?

cqi commented Nov 3, 2016

@kevin Sure. Please close this issue. Thanks.

@kevin changed the status to Closed