I sent this mail to Don this morning but I think I should have sent it to this list instead. Sorry Don!
Hi Don, I'm trying my best to parse the SOAP replies provided by debbugs, but now I'm kind of stucked. A general and probably very easy question first: what is the difference between: fixed_versions and fixed found_versions and found id and bug_num summary and subject -- here also: why is summary always empty? Usually (always?) they seem to contain the same values. Here a small example of a Bugreport as I currently "see" it: fixed_versions: [] blockedby: done: True unarchived: False keywords: [] id: 112233 subject: /tmp/.X11-unix created with "suspicious ownership" archived: True forwarded: bug_num: 112233 msgid: <[email protected]> source: xfree86, xorg, xorg-x11 ownwer: location: archive pending: done found_date: [] originator: [email protected] blocks: tags: [] date: 2001-09-14 13:18:01 mergedwith: severity: important package: xserver-xfree86 summary: log_modified: 2001-09-14 20:48:08 fixed_date: [] found_versions: [u'4.1.0-5'] affects: found: [u'4.1.0-5'] fixed: [] The second and currently most urgent question: Some fields like "found" are very hard to parse. Usually found is a dictionary (pardon my Python :) containing a key "item" which contains a single or a list of dictionaries containing a "key" key which has the version as value. So far so good. Bug I encountered at least two different things so far: 1. Sometimes "item" has only an empty string as value. 2. Sometimes the innermost dictionary don't contain a "key" key I'd expect but some interesting key like "please". Here an normal example: debianbts.server.get_status(112233) [...] 'found': <SOAPpy.Types.structType found at 156909964>: {'item': <SOAPpy.Types.structType item at 156910924>: {'value': None, 'key': '4.1.0-5'} }, Here an interesting one #426378: 'found': <SOAPpy.Types.structType found at 156910668>: {'please': None}, Note also how the wrapping "item" dictionary is missing. The found_versions contains a list with a single item "please". Related to this question: in both cases the found_versions just contained plain lists with the versions as strings. Very easy to parse. Again, why the difference between found and found_versions and why is found so hard to parse? Or better what should found contain? The same goes probably for "fixed". Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
