Use Bugzilla REST API to Insert Existing Product "Version"

Tue Mar 11 22:48:13 UTC 2025

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the updated info – we will monitor the bug for your updates and apply the patch as soon as it is available.

Thanks again!
Let us know if you need anything else from our end.

-Dave

From: David Miller <justdave at bugzilla.org>
Sent: Friday, March 7, 2025 12:49 AM
To: David Wright <David_Wright at phoenix.com>; support-list at bugzilla.org
Subject: Re: Use Bugzilla REST API to Insert Existing Product "Version"

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Indeed there is...  my search foo must be lacking because I didn't find that.  The patch still applies, almost (there's one line that fails, but it's really easy to merge).  It's missing a bunch in that patch to make it work though.  It needs interface information added in Bugzilla::WebService::Server::REST::Resources.

I have a new patch in the works... I have create and update working (you would use update to rename it or toggle is_active), but get and remove aren't working. I uploaded the WIP to the bug.
On 3/5/25 8:24 PM, David Wright wrote:
Hi David,

Looks like there are folks who have already expressed the need for this API. In fact someone already has a patch out for this feature request but it has not been merged -  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777047 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777047> , it’s been there since version 4.2 for over 10 years.

Any idea if this could get implemented or a patch provided for this fix?

Thanks,
Dave

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Subject: Re: Use Bugzilla REST API to Insert Existing Product "Version"

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OK, I finally got a chance to play around with this, and...   you're correct, it's not implemented.  The API is indeed there under the hood, but it's not exposed in the REST interface.  This is probably an oversight and we should fix it.  But I started looking into what would be needed to fix it, and discovered that perhaps maybe it wasn't implemented because "version" already exists as an object type in the REST API, and it's the version of Bugzilla, not a product version.  Maybe we can make it be "versions" with an "s"? Or maybe we just overload it and you get the Bugzilla version if you don't specify anything after it and there's no payload, and if there's a payload then we treat it like a product version object?

Anyhow, I filed this at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1951899<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1951899>
On 3/3/25 7:08 PM, Dave Miller wrote:
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><mailto: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><mailto:justdave at bugzilla.org>; support-list at bugzilla.org<mailto: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:

  1.  What is the REST URI to call to work with versioning information for a particular product?
  2.  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

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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.

https://bugzilla.readthedocs.io/en/latest/integrating/api/Bugzilla/Version.html<https://bugzilla.readthedocs.io/en/latest/integrating/api/Bugzilla/Version.html>

You can create a new version there by passing the version name and the ID of the product to attach it to.

The function docs look like they're missing, but it's in the example at the top.

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>

But maybe we are looking at the wrong documenation or misunderstanding.

Is there any way we can use the Bugzilla REST API to insert a new version for an existing product?

This is the current manual process:

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Thanks,
David Wright
Phoenix Technologies

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