278832 - XML format for bug activity

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 112646

(Bugzilla :: Bug Import/Export & Moving, enhancement, P3)

Description

[sheng han]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0

As I know of, many people is trying, had tried to hack bugzilla to suit their
own consent including me. One of the most hairy task in hacking bugzilla is to
retrieve bugs related data from bugzilla ( to manipulate it, to syncronize with
other in some strange way, to do sanity check and to automate some process ...). 

I don't want to discuss how to retrieve bugs related information in this one,
instead I would like to find out if its possible to have a standard format of
output --- XML form of bugs.

This XML output will contains all information of a bug, including activity,
attachments, longdescs etc.. Which means its a data dump from mysql in a nice
formated way.

With this XML output, hacker can easily build XML object in their language,
manipulate with a official recognized format. I think this can help to
formalized the project structure in the future, plus provide API based on the 
XML object.

Since this can be a data dump, it can/should also output other tables data in a
meaningful way, i.e. with association to a bug's attribute.



Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Colin Ogilvie [:cso]]

Have you seen https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?ctype=xml&id=278832 -
while its not the full data, it does go someway to providing the information you
want?

Comment 2

[sheng han]

Yes, I've seen the ctype option. I learned it from the xml.cgi and that's what
my idea originated from. 

Colin,
What do you think about my idea? Will it be useful?

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Reassigning bugs that I'm not actively working on to the default component owner
in order to try to make some sanity out of my personal buglist.  This doesn't
mean the bug isn't being dealt with, just that I'm not the one doing it.  If you
are dealing with this bug, please assign it to yourself.

Comment 4

[Marc Schumann [:Wurblzap]]

It seems to me this is very much related to bug 112646, bug 233984 and bug
285614... Is it a duplicate? Or will they maybe together fix this bug?

Comment 5

[Mat Steeples]

Just wondering whether anything's happening with this one, or whether I'm
looking in the wrong place?

Comment 6

[Frédéric Buclin]

look also at bug 302669

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been morphed into a request for an XML format for bug activity. Bug activity is available programmatically via the WebServices API:
http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/3.4/en/html/api/Bugzilla/WebService/Bug.html
(see the Bug.history call).

Is that sufficient?

Gerv

Comment 8

[Frédéric Buclin]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Bug activity is available programmatically via the WebServices API:
> Is that sufficient?

I think it is. And if you want it included in the bug XML file, then that's bug 112646, which I'm duping this bug to.