bz_webservice_demo.pl - Show how to talk to Bugzilla via XMLRPC
bz_webservice_demo.pl [options]
bz_webservice_demo.pl --help
for detailed help
Print a short help message and exit.
URI to Bugzilla's xmlrpc.cgi
script,
along the lines of http://your.bugzilla.installation/path/to/bugzilla/xmlrpc.cgi
.
Bugzilla login name. Specify this together with --password in order to log in.
Specify this without a value in order to log out.
Bugzilla password. Specify this together with --login in order to log in.
Gives access to Bugzilla's âBugzilla_rememberâ option.
Specify this option while logging in to do the same thing as ticking the Bugzilla_remember
box on Bugilla's log in form.
Don't specify this option to do the same thing as unchecking the box.
See Bugzilla's rememberlogin parameter for details.
Pass a bug ID to have bz_webservice_demo.pl
do some bug-related test calls.
Pass a product name to have bz_webservice_demo.pl
do some product-related test calls.
Using the XMLRPC::Lite class,
you set up a proxy,
as shown in this script.
Bugzilla's XMLRPC URI ends in xmlrpc.cgi
,
so your URI looks along the lines of http://your.bugzilla.installation/path/to/bugzilla/xmlrpc.cgi
.
To make sure the Bugzilla you're connecting to supports the methods you wish to call,
you may want to compare the result of Bugzilla.version
to the minimum required version your application needs.
Use a http://login:password@your.bugzilla.installation/path/to/bugzilla/xmlrpc.cgi
style URI.
You don't log out if you're using this kind of authentication.
Use the User.login
and User.logout
calls to log in and out,
as shown in this script.
The Bugzilla_remember
parameter is optional.
If omitted,
Bugzilla's defaults apply (as specified by its rememberlogin
parameter).
Bugzilla hands back cookies you'll need to pass along during your work calls.
Call Bug.get_bug
with the ID of the bug you want to know more of.
The call will return a Bugzilla::Bug
object.
Call Product.get_product
with the name of the product you want to know more of.
The call will return a Bugzilla::Product
object.
Make sure that your application either uses the same character set encoding as Bugzilla does, or that it converts correspondingly when using the web service API. By default, Bugzilla uses UTF-8 as its character set encoding.
There are code comments in bz_webservice_demo.pl
which might be of further help to you.