Launchpad itself

searchTasks method can be improved with attachment criterias

Bug #982832 reported by Gökçen Eraslan
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Launchpad itself
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Currently, launchpad API provides searchTasks method to search for bugs mathing a given criteria. However, those criterias are very limited. For example searching for bugs having application/pdf attachments, or attachments having *.xslx extension is not possible.

Maybe this is a side-effect of not having mimetype/filename information in bug_attachment collection[1]. Currently we have to execute attachment.data.open() first to get information such as attachment filename or mimetype. The only option we have is the type of the attachment (patch or unspecified) which is insufficient.

[1] https://launchpad.net/+apidoc/devel.html#bug_attachment

Tags: bug-search
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Gökçen Eraslan (gkcn) wrote :

FWIW, Bugzilla boolean charts[1] are very powerful and flexible in this sense.

[1] http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/tip/en/html/query.html

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Laura Czajkowski (czajkowski) wrote :

We have no plans at present to add this feature as we don't have the man power but we'd welcome any patch on this if people were interested in working on it.

Thanks

Changed in launchpad:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
William Grant (wgrant)
tags: added: bug-search
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