Every once in a while it is necessary to file a series of bugs against several packages, preferably from the command line. To do so, there are two approaches for now: one via curl and another one via python which calls into the official Mantis SOAP API. While both approaches are a bit rough around the edges, the latter one looks like a promising candidate for building OpenCSW tools and services.
Filing a bug via curl
The following steps exemplify how curl can be used to file a bug against a package from the command line.
Authenticate to Mantis (stores a session cookie)
curl -s -c mantis.cookies -d 'username=<username>;&password=<password>;' http://www.opencsw.org/bugtrack/login.php > /dev/null
Select the relevant project/package (project ID can be retrieved from http://opencsw.org/packages/yourpackage)
curl -s -b mantis.cookies -c mantis.cookies -d "project_id=<project_id>" http://www.opencsw.org/bugtrack/set_project.php > /dev/null
File a bug The resulting bug looks like this one.
curl -s -b mantis.cookies -c mantis.cookies \
-F "m_id=0" \
-F "project_id=<project_id>" \
-F "handler_id=0" \
-F "category=packaging" \
-F "reproducibility=10" \
-F "severity=50" \
-F "summary=Depend on CSWggettextrt" \
-F "description=Rutime for gettext is now in CSWggettextrt, please update dependencies from CSWgettext to CSWgettextrt" \
-F "max_file_size=5000000" \
-F "view_state=10" \
http://www.opencsw.org/bugtrack/bug_report.php > /dev/null
The numeric levels above translate to the following strings
- Priority: 10:none,20:low,30:normal,40:high,50:urgent,60:immediate
- Severity: 10:feature,20:trivial,30:text,40:tweak,50:minor,60:major,70:crash,80:block
- Reproducability: 10:always,30:sometimes,50:random,70:have not tried,90:unable to duplicate,100:N/A
- View State: 10:public,50:private
- Status: 10:new,20:feedback,30:acknowledged,40:confirmed,50:assigned,80:resolved,90:closed
- Resolution: 10:open,20:fixed,30:reopened,40:unable to duplicate,50:not fixable,60:duplicate,70:not a bug,80:suspended,90:wont fix
For a full reference please see the section "Mantis Enum Strings" in config_defaults.inc.php
Filing a bug via the Mantis SOAP service and python + suds
The following example python snippet uses the suds library to file a bug using the Mantis SOAP API. suds is easy to use in general and is pretty straight-forward when it comes to complex data types in SOAP (in comparison both, SOAPpy and ZSI are a royal PITA). suds is available as a OpenCSW package.
from suds.client import Client
client = Client('http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/api/soap/mantisconnect.php?wsdl')
issue = client.factory.create('IssueData')
issue.project.name = "httping"
issue.project.id = 0 # Mantis will try to evaluate it, chokes if unset
issue.summary = "Testing CLI bug submission"
issue.description = "Testing CLI bug submission"
issue.category = "other"
issue.reproducibility.name = "N/A"
issue.severity.name = "minor"
issue.priority.name = "normal"
issue.view_state.name = "public"
issue.resolution.name = "open"
issue.projection.name = "none"
issue.eta.name = "none"
issue.status.name = "new"
client.service.mc_issue_add('<username>','<password>',issue)
Quite a bit of information from the issue above shouldn't be needed for an initial bug report (resolution, projection, eta, status), yet it is required due to Mantis bug #9132 mc_issue_add does not set values for all submitted fields which is only fixed in the 1.2.x branch.
