Switch to GitHub's JSON payload

GitHub now supports delivering a pure JSON payload which is much
cleaner.

Author: awigen

GitAutoDeploy.py

@@ -53,12 +53,9 @@ def do_POST(self):
     def parseRequest(self):
         length = int(self.headers.getheader('content-length'))
         body = self.rfile.read(length)
-        post = urlparse.parse_qs(body)
-        items = []
-        for itemString in post['payload']:
-            item = json.loads(itemString)
-            items.append(item['repository']['url'])
-        return items
+        payload = json.loads(body)
+        self.branch = payload['ref']
+        return [payload['repository']['url']]
 
     def getMatchingPaths(self, repoUrl):
         res = []

README.textile

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ To set it up, do the following:
 * to run it as a daemon add ==--daemon-mode==
 * On the Github page go to a repository, then "Admin", "Service Hooks", 
 "Post-Receive URLs" and add the url of your machine + port (e.g. http://example.com:8001).
+* Specify Content type as application/json
 
 You can even test the whole thing here, by clicking on the "Test Hook" button, whohoo!