diff --git a/deps.nix b/deps.nix
index 81b08f11..dce08733 100644
--- a/deps.nix
+++ b/deps.nix
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ with pkgs;
   perlPackages.CatalystViewTT
   perlPackages.CatalystEngineHTTPPrefork
   perlPackages.CatalystViewDownload
+  perlPackages.CatalystViewJSON
   perlPackages.XMLSimple
   perlPackages.IPCRun
   perlPackages.IOCompressBzip2
diff --git a/src/lib/Hydra.pm b/src/lib/Hydra.pm
index ec727a86..3e6d54dd 100644
--- a/src/lib/Hydra.pm
+++ b/src/lib/Hydra.pm
@@ -43,7 +43,13 @@ __PACKAGE__->config(
                 },
             },
         },
-    }
+    },
+    'View::JSON' => {
+        expose_stash => qr/^json/,
+    },
+    'Plugin::Session' => {
+        expires => 3600 * 24 * 2,
+    },
 );
 
 __PACKAGE__->setup();
diff --git a/src/lib/Hydra/Controller/API.pm b/src/lib/Hydra/Controller/API.pm
index 664cdd4d..630dfbda 100644
--- a/src/lib/Hydra/Controller/API.pm
+++ b/src/lib/Hydra/Controller/API.pm
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ use JSON::Any;
 use DateTime;
 use Digest::SHA qw(sha256_hex);
 
+# !!! Rewrite this to use View::JSON.
+
 sub api : Chained('/') PathPart('api') CaptureArgs(0) {
     my ($self, $c) = @_;
     $c->response->content_type('application/json');
@@ -163,16 +165,6 @@ sub nrrunning : Chained('api') PathPart('nrrunning') Args(0) {
     $c->forward('Hydra::View::Plain');
 }
 
-sub ts {
-	my ($nr, $period) = @_;
-	my @arr ;
-
-
-    	
-	
-	return @arr;
-}
-
 sub nrbuilds : Chained('api') PathPart('nrbuilds') Args(0) {
     my ($self, $c) = @_;
     my $nr = $c->request->params->{nr} ;
diff --git a/src/lib/Hydra/Controller/Build.pm b/src/lib/Hydra/Controller/Build.pm
index 9ad0fef1..ca51b6b5 100644
--- a/src/lib/Hydra/Controller/Build.pm
+++ b/src/lib/Hydra/Controller/Build.pm
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ use File::stat;
 use Data::Dump qw(dump);
 use Nix;
 
+
 sub build : Chained('/') PathPart CaptureArgs(1) {
     my ($self, $c, $id) = @_;
     
@@ -29,6 +30,7 @@ sub build : Chained('/') PathPart CaptureArgs(1) {
     $c->stash->{project} = $c->stash->{build}->project;
 }
 
+
 sub view_build : Chained('build') PathPart('') Args(0) {
     my ($self, $c) = @_;
 
@@ -215,6 +217,7 @@ sub download_by_type : Chained('build') PathPart('download-by-type') {
     $c->res->redirect(defaultUriForProduct($self, $c, $product, @path));
 }
 
+
 sub contents : Chained('build') PathPart Args(1) {
     my ($self, $c, $productnr) = @_;
 
@@ -308,6 +311,7 @@ sub buildtimedeps : Chained('build') PathPart('buildtime-deps') {
     $c->res->content_type('image/png'); # !!!
 }
 
+
 sub deps : Chained('build') PathPart('deps') {
     my ($self, $c) = @_;
     
@@ -539,4 +543,15 @@ sub clone_submit : Chained('build') PathPart('clone/submit') Args(0) {
 }
 
 
+sub get_info  : Chained('build') PathPart('api/get-info') Args(0) {
+    my ($self, $c) = @_;
+    my $build = $c->stash->{build};
+    # !!! strip the json prefix
+    $c->stash->{jsonBuildId} = $build->id;
+    $c->stash->{jsonDrvPath} = $build->drvpath;
+    $c->stash->{jsonOutPath} = $build->outpath;
+    $c->forward('View::JSON');
+}
+
+
 1;
diff --git a/src/lib/Hydra/View/JSON.pm b/src/lib/Hydra/View/JSON.pm
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f2ab1fc8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/Hydra/View/JSON.pm
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+package Hydra::View::JSON;
+use base qw(Catalyst::View::JSON);
+1;