API for searching and reading the Buildpack Registry
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README.md

Buildpack Registry API

CI CII Best Practices

This repository contains an application that exposes an API for interacting with the Buildpack Registry.

Endpoints

Search for a buildpack by keyword(s).

GET /search

Required Parameters

Name Type Description Example
matches string keyword(s) to search for "ruby"

Request Example

$ curl "https://registry.buildpacks.io/api/v1/search?matches=ruby"

Response Example

[
  {
    "latest": {
      "id": "a52bd991-0e17-46c0-a413-229b35943765",
      "namespace": "heroku",
      "name": "ruby",
      "version": "0.1.0",
      "addr": "public.ecr.aws/r2f9u0w4/heroku-ruby-buildpack@sha256:0f05ccc534c20fb54cc6f0c71df9b21b2952f74f528ed98f55d81c40434844fd",
      "yanked": false,
      "description": "",
      "homepage": "",
      "licenses": null,
      "stacks": [
        "heroku-18",
        "heroku-20"
      ],
      "created_at": "2021-03-04T16:20:27.189Z",
      "updated_at": "2021-05-16T04:24:52.556Z",
      "version_major": "0",
      "version_minor": "1",
      "version_patch": "0"
    },
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "0.1.0",
        "_link": "https://registry.buildpacks.io/api/v1/buildpacks/heroku/ruby/0.1.0"
      }
    ]
  }
]

Buildpack Version List

Search for a buildpack by keyword(s).

GET /buildpacks/:namespace/:name

Required Parameters

Name Type Description Example
namespace string the namespace component from the ID of the buildpack "heroku"
name string the name component from the ID of the buildpack "ruby"

Request Example

$ curl "https://registry.buildpacks.io/api/v1/buildpacks/heroku/ruby"

Response Example

{
  "latest": {
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "namespace": "heroku",
    "name": "ruby",
    "description": "",
    "homepage": "",
    "licenses": null,
    "stacks": [
      "heroku-18",
      "heroku-20"
    ],
    "id": "a52bd991-0e17-46c0-a413-229b35943765"
  },
  "versions": [
    {
      "version": "0.1.0",
      "_link": "https://registry.buildpacks.io//api/v1/buildpacks/heroku/ruby/0.1.0"
    }
  ]
}

Buildpack Version Info

Search for a buildpack by keyword(s).

GET /buildpacks/:namespace/:name/:version

Required Parameters

Name Type Description Example
namespace string the namespace component from the ID of the buildpack "heroku"
name string the name component from the ID of the buildpack "ruby"
version string the version of the buildpack "0.1.0"

Request Example

$ curl "https://registry.buildpacks.io/api/v1/buildpacks/heroku/ruby/0.1.0"

Response Example

{
  "id": "a52bd991-0e17-46c0-a413-229b35943765",
  "namespace": "heroku",
  "name": "ruby",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "addr": "public.ecr.aws/r2f9u0w4/heroku-ruby-buildpack@sha256:0f05ccc534c20fb54cc6f0c71df9b21b2952f74f528ed98f55d81c40434844fd",
  "yanked": false,
  "description": "",
  "homepage": "",
  "licenses": null,
  "stacks": [
    "heroku-18",
    "heroku-20"
  ],
  "created_at": "2021-03-04T16:20:27.189Z",
  "updated_at": "2021-05-16T04:30:10.652Z",
  "version_major": "0",
  "version_minor": "1",
  "version_patch": "0"
}

Development

This project requires Ruby, Rails and Golang tooling.

  1. Install Ruby determined by .ruby-version file.
  2. Install Rails and Golang.
  3. bundle install to install all the dependencies in your Gemfile
  4. yarn install to install all the dependencies in yarn.lock file

This app uses PostgreSQL. To set up the database, run:

$ bundle exec rake db:create
$ bundle exec rake db:migrate

Run the tests:

$ make test

Then run the Rails app and asset watcher/compiler with:

$ ./bin/dev

In other terminal session, run the background worker to create the index:

$ make index