dovecot - Aug 2018 - Is the Doveadm HTTP API considered stable for production use?

On 23.08.18 15:35, Felipe Gasper wrote:
>
>> On Aug 23, 2018, at 8:14 AM, James Beck <james.beck at aa.net.uk>
wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 09:54:44AM -0400, Felipe Gasper wrote:
>>> If you don?t want to use the HTTP API, you can use the raw doveadm
protocol.
>>>
>>> https://wiki.dovecot.org/Design/DoveadmProtocol
>>>
>>> -FG
>> Thanks, I didn't know about that. I suppose testing the HTTP API
and
>> then switching to the raw doveadm protocol over TCP if it turns out
>> "crashy" wouldn't mean too much work.
> Why use the HTTP API at all?
How about JSON. :)

Good luck,
Reio

> On Aug 23, 2018, at 8:44 AM, Reio Remma <reio at mrstuudio.ee> wrote:
> 
> On 23.08.18 15:35, Felipe Gasper wrote:
>> 
>>> On Aug 23, 2018, at 8:14 AM, James Beck <james.beck at
aa.net.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 09:54:44AM -0400, Felipe Gasper wrote:
>>>> If you don?t want to use the HTTP API, you can use the raw
doveadm protocol.
>>>> 
>>>> https://wiki.dovecot.org/Design/DoveadmProtocol
>>>> 
>>>> -FG
>>> Thanks, I didn't know about that. I suppose testing the HTTP
API and
>>> then switching to the raw doveadm protocol over TCP if it turns out
>>> "crashy" wouldn't mean too much work.
>> Why use the HTTP API at all?
> 
> How about JSON. :)
JSON and HTTP headers do make it easy to get started, but they?re inefficient
compared to doveadm. JSON in particular limits us to UTF-8 text, so any
application that needs to send non-UTF-8 payloads would have to apply an
encoding layer. I?ve not looked into the HTTP API, so I don?t know what
workaround might be in place to circumvent that limitation.

<shrug> Different strokes for different folks, I guess. :)

-F

Thanks all for the responses!

It sounds safe to use so I'll give it a go :)

The reason for using the API is that I'm managing replication pairs
behind director, on their own private LAN, and I want to be able to have
a single place I can connect in to to query them. I'm hoping this idea
will make it simpler to manage than running the same scripts multiple
times in multiple places.

-- 
James Beck
Andrews & Arnold Ltd
Tel: 03333 400999
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