295348 - XML Bug Template without comments

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, enhancement)

Description

[Steve Coffman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Bugzilla should have a URL to retrieve just the status of a bug, no graphics,
forms, or links. This would allow external tools to monitor the status of a bug
without severely hurting bugzilla performance for interactive use. This would
facilitate cross-repository dependencies.

This would reduce the need for work-arounds like this Evolution plugin which
deletes bugmail that has been already resolved:
http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/code/delete-resolved-bugs.c

Screen scraping existing show_bug.cgi, show_activity.cgi, long_list.cgi would be
fragile, and slow.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attempt to check on the status of 3000 bugs 
2. Cry.
3.

Actual Results:  
Induced vomitting.

Expected Results:  
Created world peace.

Comment 1

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

We already have an XML bug template which works quite well for getting data from
Bugzilla through automated means. Just add &ctype=xml to the end of your
show_bug.cgi link.

What would be useful is a version of this template without comments.

Comment 2

[:glob ✱]

you can already do this, using the undocumented (bug 189154) excludefield (bug
136603) parameter.

to get the xml of a bug, excluding the comments, use

  show_bug.cgi?id=295348&ctype=xml&excludefield=long_desc