[Mailman-Developers] REST API call for creating archive view?

[Colin Fleming]

Thanks for the comments, Steve - can you clarify what you mean by a
"write-only API"? As far as I can tell I could use that to insert messages
that Mailman now considers "posted to the list" into my own DBMS and then
present them however I like. I'll have a bunch of questions around
robustness and error handling, but is that not basically  the case?

I like the idea of Hyperkitty returning fairly plain HTML that I could
later style, although having a REST API that would allow me to get at
thread objects which contained a tree of message objects would probably be
ideal. I suspect that's fairly trivial for me to implement assuming my
assumptions about IArchiver are correct.

Cheers,
Colin


On 8 November 2013 23:20, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

> Colin Fleming writes:
>
>  > Is there a way to create an archive view (i.e. present a view of
>  > all messages in a list and allow reading particular mails) using
>  > the current API?
>
> No, and (sorry Barry, but I think you just added to the confusion --
> IArchiver is really a write-only API) there won't be unless the
> architecture of Mailman 3 changes dramatically.  Archiving (storage
> and retrieval of posted messages) is the responsibility of a separate
> module.  What Mailman itself can tell you is the suggested permalink
> for individual archived messages.
>
> We do plan to provide such a module (the current implementation and
> leading candidate is called HyperKitty).
>
> I do not know if the current architecture of HyperKitty is
> sufficiently modular as to allow you to just grab messages and then
> format them yourself.
>
> I'm not sure why you'd want to grab raw messages, actually; I think
> the best idea would for HyperKitty core (or any other implementation
> of an archiver) to spit out a DIV element containing the
> (semantically) formatted email message, and provide a default CSS,
> plus a fairly trivial full webapp that wraps the DIV in a full page.
> I'm not sure if it does that yet, though, you need to talk to the
> HyperKitty devs about it.
>
> (Heck, if it doesn't, maybe I'll go into the archiver business
> myself.  Look for CSSZenKitty at a DVCS host near you!)
>
> Steve
>
>