Can't set multicall=False

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

I'm doing some work with the Red Hat bugzilla and really need the
performance increase of calling getbugs with a big list of bugs instead
of letting it do the multicall.  So I figure I'd just pass
multicall=False to the constructor, but it fails:

TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'multicall'

I have limited understanding of python, but it seems that the kwargs get
passed all the way down to BugzillaBase.__init__ which bails if it gets
anything other than user, password, url or cookiefile.

Also, I really need to get flags back from getbugs, which requires you
pass an extra_fields argument containing 'flags'.  Is it at all possible
to do this with python-bugzilla or should I just bypass it and make an
xmlrpc call myself?

 - J<

[Cole Robinson]

Firstly Jason, sorry for no one responding for 2 months.

On 08/16/2012 11:07 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>  I'm doing some work with the Red Hat bugzilla and really need
> the
>  performance increase of calling getbugs with a big list of bugs instead
>  of letting it do the multicall.  So I figure I'd just pass
>  multicall=False to the constructor, but it fails:
>  
>  TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'multicall'
>  
>  I have limited understanding of python, but it seems that the kwargs get
>  passed all the way down to BugzillaBase.__init__ which bails if it gets
>  anything other than user, password, url or cookiefile.
>   
Thanks for the report. Indeed this has been busted for a while, and I fixed it
upstream:

http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/python-bugzilla.git/commit/?id=8b1a472dc...

However multicall=True is the default behavior, so that option is only useful
for turning it off.

>  Also, I really need to get flags back from getbugs, which requires
> you
>  pass an extra_fields argument containing 'flags'.  Is it at all possible
>  to do this with python-bugzilla or should I just bypass it and make an
>  xmlrpc call myself?
>   
Yes:

bz = Bugzilla(url="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/xmlrpc.cgi")
fields_i_need = ["flags", "component", ...]
buglist = bz.query(bz.build_query(component="python-bugzilla",
include_fields=fields_i_need)

If you don't specify every field you need, you'll see a large slow down as we
need to hit xmlrpc again. But the above is the fastest way of doing things.

- Cole

Getting more group info [was Re: Can't set multicall=False]

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 06:27:45PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>  
>  On 08/16/2012 11:07 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>  
>  > Also, I really need to get flags back from getbugs, which requires you
>  > pass an extra_fields argument containing 'flags'.  Is it at all possible
>  > to do this with python-bugzilla or should I just bypass it and make an
>  > xmlrpc call myself?
>  > 
>  
>  Yes:
>  
>  bz = Bugzilla(url="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/xmlrpc.cgi")
>  fields_i_need = ["flags", "component", ...]
>  buglist = bz.query(bz.build_query(component="python-bugzilla",
>  include_fields=fields_i_need)
>  
>  If you don't specify every field you need, you'll see a large slow down as we
>  need to hit xmlrpc again. But the above is the fastest way of doing things.
>   
Is it possible to get better information about groups back from bugzilla
using the query interface?  I need to get information about whether a bug
is marked as private or secure which seems to be implemented via groups.
The standard information returned by query is a list that's either empty or
populated with ['redhat'] (even though there's multiple groups set).  if
I force a refresh of the specific bug then I have full gorup information for
that bug but that would be slow to do for, say, the list of kernel bugs.

I tried include_fields=['bug_id',  'groups']  to see if that would help
but
it was the same.

-Toshio

Getting more group info [was Re: Can't set multicall=False]

[Cole Robinson]

On 10/17/2012 10:49 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>  On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 06:27:45PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> >
> > On 08/16/2012 11:07 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >
> >> Also, I really need to get flags back from getbugs, which requires you
> >> pass an extra_fields argument containing 'flags'.  Is it at all possible
> >> to do this with python-bugzilla or should I just bypass it and make an
> >> xmlrpc call myself?
> >>
> >
> > Yes:
> >
> > bz = Bugzilla(url="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/xmlrpc.cgi")
> > fields_i_need = ["flags", "component", ...]
> > buglist = bz.query(bz.build_query(component="python-bugzilla",
> > include_fields=fields_i_need)
> >
> > If you don't specify every field you need, you'll see a large slow down as
> we
> > need to hit xmlrpc again. But the above is the fastest way of doing things.
> >
>  Is it possible to get better information about groups back from bugzilla
>  using the query interface?  I need to get information about whether a bug
>  is marked as private or secure which seems to be implemented via groups.
>  The standard information returned by query is a list that's either empty or
>  populated with ['redhat'] (even though there's multiple groups set).  if
>  I force a refresh of the specific bug then I have full gorup information for
>  that bug but that would be slow to do for, say, the list of kernel bugs.
>  
>  I tried include_fields=['bug_id',  'groups']  to see if that would help
> but
>  it was the same.
>   
Confirmed, I'm guessing that's an bugzilla bug. Strip it down to the simplest
reproducer and file a bug in rhbz against Community->Bugzilla.

- Cole