Accessing Launchpad remotely

[Christian Robottom Reis]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 09:45:51PM +0200, Lionel Dricot wrote:
> 1) Reading a bug
> 
> I tried with the simple text interface : https://launchpad.net/bugs/1/+text
> But I don't have the content of the bug nor the comments.
> (this is https://launchpad.net/products/launchpad/+bug/51835)
> Bradb told that the content might be available in +edit mode.
> 
> But what are those +xxx mode and how can I find them ? (any documentation ?)

The only mode that currently exists is a text output mode. I have a
patch for Atom output that may be useful. Would that help you? I could
be persuaded into putting effort into it.

> 2) Performing a search and get (number, package, title, severity,
> importance) of the results
> 
> I also tried the text interface like
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bugs-text?field.searchtext=anything+you+want
> Unfortunatly, in +bugs-text mode, parameter are just ignored.

This is a bug. Could you see if it's already reported, and if not,
report it and let me know of the bug number?

> 3) Modify an existing bug with a given account.
> 
> No idea on how I can do that besides screen-scraping

You can do this via the email interface.

> 4) posting a new bug
> 
> I know that you can post bugs with email but I don't like very much
> this solution because you need a working SMTP. Any advice on a way to
> post a bug from a given user ?

There is an experimental XMLRPC interface. I suggest contacting Brad
(bradb.bollenbach at canonical.com) for details if you'd like to look into
this; I spoke to him on this subject today.

> 5) creating an user
> 
> In the middle-term, I want my user to be able to create a launchpad
> account if he has none yet. Any ideas on this ?

This is somewhat complicated. We validate the user by means of his email
address; you can of course POST the creation of the account, but he will
still need to reply to the Launchpad email.
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