Use Bugzilla REST API to Insert Existing Product "Version"

[Dave Miller]

I'm planning to experiment with this later tonight and see what I can figure out. Sorry for the delay, I was buried with end-of-the-month paperwork and haven't had a chance to play yet.

On March 3, 2025 5:33:56 PM EST, David Wright <David_Wright at phoenix.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Any update for our follow up questions?
>Thanks in advance for the support!
>
>Thanks,
>David Wright
>Phoenix Technologies
>
>From: David Wright
>Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2025 10:47 AM
>To: 'Dave Miller' <justdave at bugzilla.org>; support-list at bugzilla.org
>Subject: RE: Use Bugzilla REST API to Insert Existing Product "Version"
>
>Thanks Dave, that is helpful. Glad to hear it should be possible.
>
>Some follow up questions from our dev working on this issue:
>
>I need more information to proceed. The link referenced in your comment redirects to what appears to be a code snippet of a Perl script working on the backend, but I need info on how to work with the product out of band through REST API calls.
>
>I’ve listed some of the questions below that I wasn't able to find an answer to in the docs:
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>  *   What is the REST URI to call to work with versioning information for a particular product?
>  *   What is the payload to be passed when making the call for the below items?
>     *   Adding a new version to a product
>     *   Updating an existing version in a product
>     *   Deleting an existing version from the product
>
>Thanks,
>Dave
>
>From: support-list <support-list-bounces at bugzilla.org<mailto:support-list-bounces at bugzilla.org>> On Behalf Of Dave Miller
>Sent: Monday, February 24, 2025 4:55 PM
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>Subject: Re: Use Bugzilla REST API to Insert Existing Product "Version"
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>A version is its own object type.
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>https://bugzilla.readthedocs.io/en/latest/integrating/api/Bugzilla/Version.html<https://bugzilla.readthedocs.io/en/latest/integrating/api/Bugzilla/Version.html>
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>You can create a new version there by passing the version name and the ID of the product to attach it to.
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>The function docs look like they're missing, but it's in the example at the top.
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>On February 24, 2025 7:11:03 PM EST, David Wright <David_Wright at phoenix.com<mailto:David_Wright at phoenix.com>> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>We are trying to Automate insertion of a Product “Version” instead of having to do it manually.
>
>According to the Bugzilla API manual, this does not seem to be an option for UPDATING, only CREATING a new product.
>https://bugzilla.readthedocs.io/en/latest/integrating/api/Bugzilla/WebService/Product.html<https://bugzilla.readthedocs.io/en/latest/integrating/api/Bugzilla/WebService/Product.html>
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>But maybe we are looking at the wrong documenation or misunderstanding.
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>Is there any way we can use the Bugzilla REST API to insert a new version for an existing product?
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>This is the current manual process:
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>Thanks,
>David Wright
>Phoenix Technologies
>
>
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