Debbugs' SOAP Interface Documentation
This documentation will likely always be slightly behind the extant documentation in the Debbugs::SOAP module. However, feel free to update it when they begin to differ.
Please help to keep this documentation up to date!
URL and Namespace
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/soap.cgi is the official SOAP interface for Debian's BTS.
http://bugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/soap.cgi is the development version.
The namespace is Debbugs/SOAP
Available methods for bugs.debian.org
http://bugs.debian.org/debbugs-source/mainline/Debbugs/SOAP.pm
- get_status(bugnumber [, bugnumber]*)
- returns the status if the given bugs
- get_bugs
- returns bar
Available methods for bugs.donarmstrong.com
Examples
Perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
use SOAP::Lite;
my $soap = SOAP::Lite->uri('Debbugs/SOAP')->proxy('http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/soap.cgi');
print Dumper($soap->get_bugs(package=>debbugs)->result());
print Dumper($soap->get_status(bug=>400000)->result());
print Dumper($soap->get_status(bug=>400000)->result());
# et al.
Python
1 #!/usr/bin/env python
2
3
4 import SOAPpy
5
6 url = 'http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/soap.cgi'
7 namespace = 'Debbugs/SOAP'
8 server = SOAPpy.SOAPProxy(url, namespace)
9
10 # some debug output
11 #server.config.dumpSOAPOut = 1
12 #server.config.dumpSOAPIn = 1
13
14
15 def getStatus(*args):
16 result = server.get_status(*args)
17 return result
18
19 def getBugs(*args):
20 result = server.get_bugs(*args)
21 return result
22
23 # All bugs from one package (returns a list of bugnumbers)
24 print getBugs("package", "gtk-qt-engine")
25
26 # returns the status of those bugs
27 print getStatus(409909, 419920, 421581, 417044, 397993)
28
29 # getStatus and getBugs combined:
30 getStatus(getBugs("package", "gtk-qt-engine"))