Re: [mantisbt-help] Submitting a bug to mantis programmatically ...

[Victor B. <vb...@gm...>]

Hi Leonid,

You need to check out MantisConnect.  It provides a PHP web service
and a .NET, Java and Cocoa client libraries.

http://www.futureware.biz/mantisconnect/

On 5/30/07, Leonid Lastovkin <leo...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi, do not have a lot of experience working with web programming/http
> protocols. Hopefully this is an easy question for some of you.
>
> [By the way, the client that submits bugs will be running on a
> windows-based platform.]
> I am trying to implement a module in C#; I am considering using a
> command-line script as well if one works. So far I was not able to get
> it to work. From what I understood, the sequence of the steps is the
> following:
>
> ==========
> // Manual info gathering
> A. Open link http://<server_addr>/mantis/login_page.php in web
> browser, examine form details (there is an add-on for Mozilla that
> makes it easy)
> B. Log in with credentials, click "Report Issue"
> C. Examine forms http://<server_addr>/mantis/bug_report_page.php
> ==========
> In code:
> ==========
> 1. Connect to http://<server_addr>/mantis/login_page.php
> 2. Login using HTTP POST method
> 3. Store all of the cookies
> 4. Read the response - you should be getting contents of the "my view" page.
> 4. Connect to http://<server_addr>/mantis/bug_report_page.php
> 5. Submit a bug properly (some if not all selection boxes require
> enums like 10, 20, ... as opposed to string values such as "minor",
> "major", etc.)
> 6. Read the response. No errors should occur. Figure out the bug
> number from the generated html.
> ==========
>
> * I've tried to base my C# code on:
> http://geekswithblogs.net/rakker/archive/2006/04/21/76044.aspx
> Unfortunatelly the author did not think of having to pass cookies back
> and forth, hence I cannot use it. If you see an easy way to modify it
> to get it to do what I want, please let me know.
>
> * The next best solution would be writing a Perl script that takes a
> bug's summary and description on command line, and then submits it
> keeping other parameters default: severity, priority, etc. Again, I
> found some simple general examples of http post, but nothing involved.
>
> * I would also consider a Python or a Ruby solution
>
> * I would use some other command-line-based tool if I can get it to
> work. I downloaded wget   for windows and came pretty close to doing
> what I want: I can login to initial page and store all cookies. I can
> then use the same cookies to connect to a different page and try to
> submit a bug. What I get in response is an HTML showing a form that is
> filled in with the values I want, but I still need to press the submit
> button. ... Perhaps this is because the "report an issue" has multiple
> forms, or because the form is missing the "action" target, not unlike
> this: <form action="jump_to_bug.php" ... > ... or could be something
> else.
>
> Anyway, these are my two scripts that almost get the job done [you
> need wget http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/index.html#downloading]:
>
> ==========
> wget --keep-session-cookies --save-cookies cookies.txt --post-data
> "username=<user>&password=<pass>" http://<server>/mantis/login.php
> ==========
>
> And then:
>
> ==========
> wget -A "bug_report_page.php" --load-cookies cookies.txt -np -r
> --post-data "m_id=0&project_id=1&handler_id=0&category=10&reproducibility=10&severity=50&product_version=80&summary=this_is_a_test&description=A_test_indeed"
> http://<server>/mantis/bug_report_page.php
> ==========
>
> Questions regarding these scripts:
> Q1: Can anyone get it to work?
> Q2: If Q1 is Yes, then how do I submit a bug that has spaces in its
> summary and description, and/or the description is multi-line?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> - Leonid
>
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