Re: Questions about BTS SOAP interface "pending" attribute
On Thu, 06 Sep 2012, Francesco Poli wrote:
> If my understanding of the four statuses is correct, it seems to me
> that their names are a bit misleading: while 'forwarded' and 'done'
> look basically OK to me, 'pending' seems a bit of a misnomer to me
> for a bug that is open, but not forwarded nor tagged "pending" (I
> would call it 'unfixed' or something like that); finally,
> 'pending-fixed' looks a bit awkward to me (I would simply call it
> 'pending', since it corresponds to the "pending" tag for open bugs).
It's this way for historical reasons, unfortunately. The names aren't
entirely logical, but changing them makes no sense. Since you asked,
and since I've been asked before, I just went ahead and documented
what get_bug_status returns, which is what Debbugs::SOAP calls and
returns:
get_bug_status
my $status = get_bug_status(bug => $nnn);
my $status = get_bug_status($bug_num)
Options
bug -- scalar bug number
status -- optional hashref of bug status as returned by readbug (can be passed to avoid rereading the bug information)
bug_index -- optional tied index of bug status infomration; currently not correctly implemented.
version -- optional version(s) to check package status at
dist -- optional distribution(s) to check package status at
arch -- optional architecture(s) to check package status at
bugusertags -- optional hashref of bugusertags
sourceversion -- optional arrayref of source/version; overrides dist, arch, and version. [The entries in this array must be in the "source/version"
format.] Eventually this can be used to for caching.
indicatesource -- if true, indicate which source packages this bug could belong to (or does belong to in the case of bugs assigned to a source package).
Defaults to true.
Note: Currently the version information is cached; this needs to be changed before using this function in long lived programs.
Returns
Currently returns a hashref of status with the following keys.
id -- bug number
bug_num -- duplicate of id
keywords -- tags set on the bug, including usertags if bugusertags passed.
tags -- duplicate of keywords
package -- name of package that the bug is assigned to
severity -- severity of the bug
pending -- pending state of the bug; one of following possible values; values listed later have precedence if multiple conditions are satisifed:
pending -- default state
forwarded -- bug has been forwarded
pending-fixed -- bug is tagged pending
fixed -- bug is tagged fixed
absent -- bug does not apply to this distribution/architecture
done -- bug is resolved in this distribution/architecture
location -- db-h or archive; the location in the filesystem
subject -- title of the bug
last_modified -- epoch that the bug was last modified
date -- epoch that the bug was filed
originator -- bug reporter
log_modified -- epoch that the log file was last modified
msgid -- Message id of the original bug report
Other key/value pairs are returned but are not currently documented here.
Hope that clarifies.
Don Armstrong
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