460286 - Implement Param.set() to set parameters from webservices

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: WebService, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Frédéric Buclin]

Bug 443210 is about getting current parameters, this one is about setting them. This would greatly help doing QA, btw. ;)

I was thinking about this API:

Param.get('param_name');
Param.set('param_name', $value);

This would be very easy to use.

Comment 1

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

We'd want Param.set({ param_name => $value, other_param => $other_value }), probably.

Comment 2

[Frédéric Buclin]

too late for 3.4.

Comment 3

[Frédéric Buclin]

We no longer accept new features for Bugzilla 3.6. Retargetting to 3.8.

Comment 4

[Frédéric Buclin]

(In reply to Max Kanat-Alexander from comment #1)
> We'd want Param.set({ param_name => $value, other_param => $other_value }),
> probably.

For consistency with bug 443210, which implemented Bugzilla.parameters, I suggest:

Bugzilla.set_parameters({ param_name => $value, other_param => $other_value })

dkl, are you actively working on this? Else I could do it.

Comment 5

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

(In reply to Frédéric Buclin from comment #4)
> (In reply to Max Kanat-Alexander from comment #1)
> > We'd want Param.set({ param_name => $value, other_param => $other_value }),
> > probably.
> 
> For consistency with bug 443210, which implemented Bugzilla.parameters, I
> suggest:
> 
> Bugzilla.set_parameters({ param_name => $value, other_param => $other_value
> })
> 
> dkl, are you actively working on this? Else I could do it.

If you want to work on it, then I feel free to take it. I have plenty to do currently. I did want to work on it back then but never was able got back to it and I would need to finish up some other things first.

dkl

Comment 6

[Frédéric Buclin]

OK, so taking.

Comment 7

[Frédéric Buclin]

We are going to branch for Bugzilla 4.4 next week and this bug is either too invasive to be accepted for 4.4 at this point or shows no recent activity. The target milestone is reset and will be set again *only* when a patch is attached and approved.

I ask the assignee to reassign the bug to the default assignee if you don't plan to work on this bug in the near future, to make it clearer which bugs should be fixed by someone else.