[Discuss] need to add the daemonstatus api for the new version of scrapyd

[BruceDone]

Hi all: since the scrapyd server has add the new api of daemonstatus.json

here is the code https://github.com/scrapy/scrapyd/blob/master/scrapyd/webservice.py

here is the doc https://scrapyd.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api.html#daemonstatus-json

i think may be need to update the code and add this new api to the project

[Digenis]

daemonstatus.json is not in a scrapyd release yet but I don't see why it shouldn't make it to the next.

[djm]

Yup, as @Digenis noted in #5, this is not in a stable branch yet.

It has also changed within the last month so I'm not certain we should be relying on it being a stable API just yet.

but I don't see why it shouldn't make it to the next.

@Digenis do you have any more information on this? I can't find much info set in stone about scrapyd's release process.

[Digenis]

The change was only a bugfix. I don't think we should drop daemonstatus from scrapyd There are other recently introduced features that should be dropped. The reason you can't rely on it is because it's not tagged in a release yet.

Regarding releases, there are currently no conventions. The odd-even convention for unstable-stable releases is finally abandoned by scrapy. I'm currently doing an effort to fix the setups of existing releases of scrapyd which have erroneously remained with obsolete scrapy dependencies and python2.6 support for too long. I think the setup scripts are important because of the amount of people who accidentally end up with broken installations. I'm done with the 1.0 branch, I'll do the same on 1.1 and then some cleanup and testing towards a 1.2 release. Any help on this is welcome.

[djm]

Thanks @Digenis.

I will likely start work on supporting daemonstatus in a branch our side so that we are ready to release as soon as scrapyd is at the point where it can be.

I'll leave this ticket open to track progress.

[tyong920]

daemonstatus.json is now stable. Please add it.