On Wed, 10 Oct 2018, Michael Albinus wrote: > Since it returns just empty 'attachments' as of today, and it isn't > specified anywhere what shall be in, it makes sense. > > > 2) MIME messages are much more complicated than just a list of > > attachments; there could be additional messages with more attachments > > within them > > Yes, although such nested attachments are rather rare in bug > communication I guess.
The usual case where they exist is in forwarded messages or in the cases where the BTS includes the original message as an attachment when the bug is closed. > Good idea. Shall I raise a (wishlist) bug report about? There's a wishlist bug for it right now: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=712979 On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Michael Albinus wrote: > The most simple way would be to handle any attachment like a message. > 'header' would be the two lines 'Content-Type' and > 'Content-Transfer-Encoding'. Every attachment would get a unique > message number, like the messages themselves. 'get_bug_log' shall > support the second argument $msg_num (which is still could be > optional), in order to retrieve the bodies of attachments. > Alternatively, we could have a structure in the attachments with just > 'header' and 'msg_num', like > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > [{header => '...', > body => '...', > attachments => [{header => '...', > msg_num => 11, > }, > header => '...', > msg_num => 15, > }, > {header => '...', > msg_num => 20, > }, > ], > msg_num => 5, > }, > {header => '...', > body => '...', > attachments => [], > msg_num => 8, > }, > ] > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I like this approach better, but I'd suggest that we do something like: attachments => [{attachment_id => 1, content_type => 'text/plain', content_name => 'if defined', # or whatever the right mime headers are; I forget },] and then another SOAP interface which does something like: get_bug_attachment($bug_num,$msg_num,$attachment_id) Another option could be for the SOAP call just to return the entire message without doing any MIME parsing; maybe that would be better? -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com unbeingdead isn't beingalive -- e.e. cummings "31" _73 Poems_
