Is there a backend interface to bugzilla?

[Ludovic Dubost]

As part of the work for importing CSV/MSProject data into Bugzilla, I've 
created an Insert function
in Bug.pm.. It is in patch in Bug 
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=223071

Ludovic

Kalaveshi, Adrian wrote:

>>Bug.pm is currently read only. Moving process/post_bug into that is
>>probably a fair ammount of work.
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>Is this work currently happening?  I need to update a bug via the
>command-line and would hate to have to replicate process_bug.cgi completely.
>Would welcome looking at a work-in-progress if anyone has one before I start
>writing my own update and post methods in Bug.pm.
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>The Python script attached to bug 132854 also has an interesting approach.
>Has anyone written a script like this to update a bug?
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>Sorry to bring this discussion back from the dead.  =)
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>-adrian-
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bradley Baetz [mailto:bbaetz at acm.org]
>Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 1:26 AM
>To: developers at bugzilla.org
>Cc: Gervase Markham; Christian Reis; Eric S. Raymond
>Subject: Re: Is there a backend interface to bugzilla?
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>On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 06:53:30PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
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>>Not much to tell.  Red Hat put XML-RPRC aupport into...the 2.17version
>>of Bugzilla, I think we discovered.  There's a prototype XML-RPC
>>client called bugzuki.  zach and justdave and kiko and I have more or
>>less agreed on a plan for supporting remote-scripted bug submissions
>>that involves folding the Red Hat mods into the Bugzilla mainline.
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>The way I'd want to do it would basically be to hook off Bug.pm. The
>current .cgi scripts would all become really snall, and just wrappers
>arround perl objects. You could then add an xmlrpc, or soap, or
>whatever, wrapper arround it fairly easily.
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>If you notice the Bugzilla::Search interface, it doesn't take a
>paramater for the cgi object, but rather one to retreive parameters. (It
>happens to be the $cgi object now, and I'm sure there are still
>assumptions, but its no inherant in the interface)
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>This is mostly being done as side effects of the cleanups for mod_perl,
>although I haven't had much time to work on that recently.
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>>My goal in all this is to be able to remote-script package submissions
>>to Fedora.  But it quickly became clear that the problem needed to be
>>pushed upstream to you guys, so I'm here helping and nudging.
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>Bug.pm is currently read only. Moving process/post_bug into that is
>probably a fair ammount of work.
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>Bradley
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