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ZVV: switch to new rest.exe API – does it have any benefits?

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#322 opened on Aug 13, 2024

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Description

It seems that ZVV has shut off their mgate.exe API in favour of a rest.exe-style API.

https://gist.github.com/derhuerst/53d6ad78ec14cee585467090f8e6a19a

depends on #134

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Research direction
Investigate the new rest.exe API from the linked gist and compare it with the current implementation using mgate.exe. Identify the differences and map the required changes in the hafas client codebase.
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javascript
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backend
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JavaScriptREST APIs
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