get manifest data

[krishnaglodha]

when we hit localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/about/manifest.json we get data as file manifest (2).json, for the pydantic, it is difficult to gauge
what might be the dictionary content, of each resource, should we just use dict for it ?

[ricardogsilva]

Looking at the manifest (here is a formatted snippet):

{
  "about": {
    "resource": [
      # other resources omitted for brevity
      {
        "@name": "GeographicLib-Java-1.49",
        "Archiver-Version": "Plexus Archiver",
        "Manifest-Version": 1,
        "Created-By": "Apache Maven 3.3.9",
        "Built-By": "ckarney",
        "Build-Jdk": "1.8.0_144"
      },
      {
        "@name": "JavaAPIforKml-2.2.0",
        "Archiver-Version": "Plexus Archiver",
        "Manifest-Version": 1,
        "Created-By": "Apache Maven",
        "Built-By": "flori",
        "Build-Jdk": "1.6.0_15"
      },
      {
        "@name": "aircompressor-0.27",
        "Implementation-Title": "aircompressor",
        "Specification-Version": 0.27,
        "Build-Time": "2024-05-20T14:15:10-0700",
        "Implementation-Version": 0.27,
        "Manifest-Version": 1,
        "Created-By": "Maven Jar Plugin 3.2.0",
        "Build-Jdk-Spec": 21,
        "Specification-Title": "aircompressor",
        "Git-Commit-Id": "e139a31be059855a5a70f6994a4ecaa0adbbea7a"
      }
    ]
  }
}

it seems to be a representation of the standard Java manifest files:

• https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/jar/jar.html#JAR_Manifest
• https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/jar/manifestindex.html

Therefore these do have a strict schema that we can use to build our pydantic models.

Would we want to do this though?

I think we should keep only the relevant bits of this payload - and at the moment I'm not sure what those would be. Perhaps we can start by keeping only the @name property (as this seems to be a combination of the Implementation-Title and Implementation-Version properties).

With this in mind, perhaps geoserverx would simply return a list of strings, where each string would be the @name property of the original response payload.