Re: [Mantisbt-soap-dev] Using mantis-axis-soap-client vs MantisConnect library

[Robert M. <rob...@gm...>]

Hi again and sorry for the delay,

On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Adi Lavi <al...@ap...> wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> Thanks for the info.
> I have a few questions related to the info you provided:
> 1. Maybe a trivial question, but how do you refresh the library when the
> WSDL changes?

The source is at [1]. The process is simple: pull a new WSDL file from
mantisbt.org once released and re-run the Maven build.

> 2. I suppose the client will not work with older versions of MantisBT (hence
> its SOAP API) that were downloaded by people (which did not make the effort
> to upgrade). Am I right? Do you know the change-log of the API?

It will work with older versions of the api. I take care to make
changes backwards-compatible. If you find such a problem, please
report it.

As for a changelog, the closest thing is the github commit history [2].

> 3. Is it compatible both with the on-premise version and the hosted one
> (MantisHub)?

Yes.

Robert

>
> Thanks,
> Adi

[1]: https://github.com/rombert/mantis-axis-soap-client
[2]: https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commits/master-1.2.x/api/soap

>
>
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Robert Munteanu
> <rob...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Adi,
>>
>> (+mantisbt-soap-dev, this might be interesting to more people )
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Adi Lavi <al...@ap...> wrote:
>>
>> > My question is what would you advise of using. I noticed that
>> > MantisConnect
>> > is a lot moire active, but seems to lack some of the functionality
>> > that's
>> > supported by the SOAP API, and do exist in your library. My concern is
>> > how
>> > much (if any) do you maintain your code and keep it up-to-date with
>> > Mantis
>> > API. The low activity level is a risk in my view.
>>
>> The mantis-axis-soap-project simply generates the Axis 1 stubs from
>> the WSDL . It is refreshed whenever needed, that is when the WSDL
>> changes in a MantisBT release. As such, it does not really see a high
>> level of activity.
>>
>> As for MantisConnect, I don't expect it to work with the current
>> MantisBT version, since its last release was in 2010 [1].
>>
>> So my advice is to use the mantis-axis-soap-project project.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Robert
>>
>>
>> [1]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mantisconnect/files/
>>
>>
>> --
>> http://robert.muntea.nu/
>
>



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