rust-lang
Add links information to the crates.io api response
The index files in rust-lang/crates.io-index have a links field which contains the name of the native library a package links with. However, this information is not exposed via the crates.io API.
For example, the bcc-sys package has a links field in its index file but that information is not available via the api.
Can you please add it?
for future reference, this got implemented in https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/pull/1248, but was only added to the index there, but not to our database. we would need to add a new column to the versions table and save this data in the database too. we might also have to build a small script to backfill the links from the index into the database for already existing versions.
The links column in the database exists at this point and has already been backfilled.
The remaining issue is that the version model of the API already contains a links property with a bunch of related URLs (see e.g. https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/libz-sys/1.1.18). Changing the meaning of the existing links field would be a breaking change, so we will have to come up with a different name to correspond to the links field in the index.
@rust-lang/crates-io any suggestions? links_? Links? links2? the_real_links? cargo_links?
links_2_3_4, but I may have listened to too much Rammstein back in the day.
That's definitely an unfortunate name clash that we should fix if there's ever a v2 of the API.
More serious suggestion: links_to_library?
