Bug 384009: Global fields (priority, severity, OS, and platform) are required when using WebService instead of using the defaults - Patch by Frédéric Buclin <LpSolit@gmail.com> r/a=mkanat

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Bugzilla/WebService/Bug.pm b/Bugzilla/WebService/Bug.pm
index 01d5c16eb..44180cc14 100755
--- a/Bugzilla/WebService/Bug.pm
+++ b/Bugzilla/WebService/Bug.pm
@@ -123,11 +123,6 @@ sub create {
         $field_values{$field_name} = $params->{$field}; 
     }
 
-    # Make sure all the required fields are in the hash.
-    foreach my $field (Bugzilla::Bug::REQUIRED_CREATE_FIELDS) {
-        $field_values{$field} = undef unless exists $field_values{$field};
-    }
-
     # WebService users can't set the creation date of a bug.
     delete $field_values{'creation_ts'};
 
@@ -504,6 +499,15 @@ in them. The error message will have more details.
 
 =back
 
+=item B<History>
+
+=over
+
+=item Before B<3.0.4>, parameters marked as B<Defaulted> were actually
+B<Required>, due to a bug in Bugzilla.
+
+=back
+
 =back
 
 =item C<add_comment> B<EXPERIMENTAL>
diff --git a/Bugzilla/WebService/Constants.pm b/Bugzilla/WebService/Constants.pm
index f12c5ecd2..85640d1bc 100755
--- a/Bugzilla/WebService/Constants.pm
+++ b/Bugzilla/WebService/Constants.pm
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ use base qw(Exporter);
 use constant WS_ERROR_CODE => {
     # Generic Bugzilla::Object errors are 50-99.
     object_name_not_specified   => 50,
+    param_required              => 50,
     object_does_not_exist       => 51,
     # Bug errors usually occupy the 100-200 range.
     improper_bug_id_field_value => 100,