Re: [Mantisbt-soap-dev] How to get user project access level

[Hector E. <nev...@gm...>]

Just FYI, I may work on this feature this upcoming week.

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Hector Espeso <nev...@gm...> wrote:

> Ok, I will take care of looking into adding some mc_user_get() method.
>
> The reason for a third method is mainly because I wouldn't want to break
> compatibility (even if one can check for the web service version). From a
> performace point of view, I think it would make sense, on what I've done so
> far mc_project_get_issues may be slow and return a lot of
> data, mc_project_get_issue_headers is a better fit for a lot of uses, but
> it forces you to make a lot of extra requests to get needed data like
> status and priorities names (yeah, it can be cached, but you still have to
> check them), and it's known that getting the users of a project may fail if
> there are a lot of registered users. Even so, mc_project_get_issue_headers
> resulted to be faster on some installations, although on others I was
> forced to go with mc_project_get_issues.
>
>
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Robert Munteanu <
> rob...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Hector Espeso <nev...@gm...>
>> wrote:
>> > Yeah, I already took a look at this yesterday, and saw the function I'd
>> need
>> > to call in case I needed to add it myself, but I only looked at what
>> > interests me.
>> >
>> > I rarely have much spare time, and these two following weeks will be
>> worse,
>> > but if you want I'll look after this feature request.
>>
>> That would be fantastic :-) Obviously, take your time.
>>
>> >
>> > I also intend to look into adding another mc_project_get_issues function
>> > that would be a hybrid between mc_project_get_issues and
>> > mc_project_get_issue_headers (and the corresponding filtered request),
>> so I
>> > can get the same or similar fields from issue_headers but with complete
>> > information (ie, instead of user id, its user data), and try to return
>> the
>> > total number of issues or pages available. That way my implementation
>> will
>> > be faster, require less bandwidth, and display the total number of pages
>> > available. I don't know if that would be of interest.
>>
>> Yes, that would be. There's some work of getting pagination and also
>> search working at
>> https://github.com/rombert/mantisbt/tree/soap-custom-filters, so you
>> can build on top of that.
>>
>> I don't know if we really need a third method call which is between
>> mc_project_get_issues and mc_project_get_issue_headers from a
>> performance point of view, but we'll see down the road.
>>
>> Robert
>>
>> >
>> > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Robert Munteanu
>> > <rob...@gm...> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Hector Espeso <nev...@gm...>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > I'm working on integrating Mantis together with another system,
>> however
>> >> > I'm
>> >> > stuck on how to get an user access level for a certain project, so I
>> can
>> >> > then enable/disable features (I know how to check later for this).
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Hi Hector,
>> >>
>> >> This is not yet possible and it's tracked at
>> >>
>> >> 0013445: mc_user_get() to get user data
>> >> http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=13445
>> >>
>> >> At the moment I'm a bit short on time so I can't promise anything
>> >> regarding an implementation timeline.
>> >>
>> >> HOWEVER, this should not be very hard to implement if you're willing
>> >> to take a shot. I'm willing to help you any way I can with this - it
>> >> requires (some) PHP knowledge and the willingness to test and wrap it
>> >> up as a complete feature.
>> >>
>> >> Let me know if you're interested.
>> >>
>> >> Robert
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > Is it possible? the only solution I've found so far is to get the
>> users
>> >> > of a
>> >> > project with a certain access level, and I find that solution to be a
>> >> > bit
>> >> > cumbersome. Allowing for this would save unneeded roundtrips just to
>> get
>> >> > an
>> >> > access denied message.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
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