1088253 - GET REST calls should allow arbitrary URL parameters to be passed in addition the values in the path

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: WebService, enhancement)

Description

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

For example you can currently only get one bug at a time using REST but you can specify multple bug ids using XMLRPC/JSONRPC.

So instead of being limited to:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/rest/bug/35

which only only gets one bug (35) you can do more than one by doing:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/rest/bug/35?ids=35&ids=36&ids=37

The 'ids' values in URL parameters will override the ids=35 internally.

Another option is to make it append to 'ids' instead of overriding 'ids' parameter completely.

Will look to see how difficult the latter would be.

dkl

Comment 1

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

Attachment: 1088253_1.patch

Comment 2

[:glob 🎈]

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1088253_1.patch

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r=glob

this works well, but i'd also like to see support for specifying the bugs to get with just query_string params:

        qr{^/bug/$}, {
            GET => {
                method => 'get',
            },
        },

this means instead your example:
  /rest/bug/35?ids=35&ids=36&ids=37
or, without returning bug 35 twice:
  /rest/bug/35?ids=36&ids=37
we can write:
  /rest/bug/?ids=35&ids=36&ids=37
which is clearer, and easier to construct.

Comment 3

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

(In reply to Byron Jones ‹:glob› from comment #2)
> this works well, but i'd also like to see support for specifying the bugs to
> get with just query_string params:
> 
>         qr{^/bug/$}, {
>             GET => {
>                 method => 'get',
>             },
>         },
> 
> this means instead your example:
>   /rest/bug/35?ids=35&ids=36&ids=37
> or, without returning bug 35 twice:
>   /rest/bug/35?ids=36&ids=37
> we can write:
>   /rest/bug/?ids=35&ids=36&ids=37
> which is clearer, and easier to construct.

You can already sort of do that with Bug.search REST endpoint by doing:
/rest/bug?id=35&id=36&id=37

I have made the suggested change with plans to make this all less confusing for REST 2.0.

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