# This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public # License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this # file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. # # This Source Code Form is "Incompatible With Secondary Licenses", as # defined by the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0. # This is the base class for $self in WebService method calls. For the # actual RPC server, see Bugzilla::WebService::Server and its subclasses. package Bugzilla::WebService; use strict; use Bugzilla::WebService::Server; use XMLRPC::Lite; # Used by the JSON-RPC server to convert incoming date fields apprpriately. use constant DATE_FIELDS => {}; # Used by the JSON-RPC server to convert incoming base64 fields appropriately. use constant BASE64_FIELDS => {}; # For some methods, we shouldn't call Bugzilla->login before we call them use constant LOGIN_EXEMPT => { }; # Used to allow methods to be called in the JSON-RPC WebService via GET. # Methods that can modify data MUST not be listed here. use constant READ_ONLY => (); sub login_exempt { my ($class, $method) = @_; return $class->LOGIN_EXEMPT->{$method}; } sub type { my ($self, $type, $value) = @_; if ($type eq 'dateTime') { $value = $self->datetime_format_outbound($value); } return XMLRPC::Data->type($type)->value($value); } # This is the XML-RPC implementation, see the README in Bugzilla/WebService/. # Our "base" implementation is in Bugzilla::WebService::Server. sub datetime_format_outbound { my $self = shift; my $value = Bugzilla::WebService::Server->datetime_format_outbound(@_); # XML-RPC uses an ISO-8601 format that doesn't have any hyphens. $value =~ s/-//g; return $value; } 1; __END__ =head1 NAME Bugzilla::WebService - The Web Service interface to Bugzilla =head1 DESCRIPTION This is the standard API for external programs that want to interact with Bugzilla. It provides various methods in various modules. You can interact with this API via L or L. =head1 CALLING METHODS Methods are grouped into "packages", like C for L. So, for example, L, is called as C. =head1 PARAMETERS The Bugzilla API takes the following various types of parameters: =over =item C Integer. May be null. =item C A floating-point number. May be null. =item C A string. May be null. =item C A date/time. Represented differently in different interfaces to this API. May be null. =item C True or false. =item C A base64-encoded string. This is the only way to transfer binary data via the WebService. =item C An array. There may be mixed types in an array. In example code, you will see the characters C<[> and C<]> used to represent the beginning and end of arrays. In our example code in these API docs, an array that contains the numbers 1, 2, and 3 would look like: [1, 2, 3] =item C A mapping of keys to values. Called a "hash", "dict", or "map" in some other programming languages. We sometimes call this a "hash" in the API documentation. The keys are strings, and the values can be any type. In example code, you will see the characters C<{> and C<}> used to represent the beginning and end of structs. For example, a struct with an "fruit" key whose value is "oranges", and a "vegetable" key whose value is "lettuce" would look like: { fruit => 'oranges', vegetable => 'lettuce' } =back =head2 How Bugzilla WebService Methods Take Parameters B Bugzilla WebService functions use I parameters. The individual C modules explain how this is implemented for those frontends. =head1 LOGGING IN There are various ways to log in: =over =item C You can use L to log in as a Bugzilla user. This issues standard HTTP cookies that you must then use in future calls, so your client must be capable of receiving and transmitting cookies. =item C and C B You can specify C and C as arguments to any WebService method, and you will be logged in as that user if your credentials are correct. Here are the arguments you can specify to any WebService method to perform a login: =over =item C (string) - A user's login name. =item C (string) - That user's password. =item C (boolean) - Optional. If true, then your login will only be valid for your IP address. =item C (boolean) - Optional. If true, then the cookie sent back to you with the method response will not expire. =back The C and C options are only used when you have also specified C and C. Note that Bugzilla will return HTTP cookies along with the method response when you use these arguments (just like the C method above). =back =head1 STABLE, EXPERIMENTAL, and UNSTABLE Methods are marked B if you can expect their parameters and return values not to change between versions of Bugzilla. You are best off always using methods marked B. We may add parameters and additional items to the return values, but your old code will always continue to work with any new changes we make. If we ever break a B interface, we'll post a big notice in the Release Notes, and it will only happen during a major new release. Methods (or parts of methods) are marked B if we I they will be stable, but there's a slight chance that small parts will change in the future. Certain parts of a method's description may be marked as B, in which case those parts are not guaranteed to stay the same between Bugzilla versions. =head1 ERRORS If a particular webservice call fails, it will throw an error in the appropriate format for the frontend that you are using. For all frontends, there is at least a numeric error code and descriptive text for the error. The various errors that functions can throw are specified by the documentation of those functions. Each error that Bugzilla can throw has a specific numeric code that will not change between versions of Bugzilla. If your code needs to know what error Bugzilla threw, use the numeric code. Don't try to parse the description, because that may change from version to version of Bugzilla. Note that if you display the error to the user in an HTML program, make sure that you properly escape the error, as it will not be HTML-escaped. =head2 Transient vs. Fatal Errors If the error code is a number greater than 0, the error is considered "transient," which means that it was an error made by the user, not some problem with Bugzilla itself. If the error code is a number less than 0, the error is "fatal," which means that it's some error in Bugzilla itself that probably requires administrative attention. Negative numbers and positive numbers don't overlap. That is, if there's an error 302, there won't be an error -302. =head2 Unknown Errors Sometimes a function will throw an error that doesn't have a specific error code. In this case, the code will be C<-32000> if it's a "fatal" error, and C<32000> if it's a "transient" error. =head1 COMMON PARAMETERS Many Webservice methods take similar arguments. Instead of re-writing the documentation for each method, we document the parameters here, once, and then refer back to this documentation from the individual methods where these parameters are used. =head2 Limiting What Fields Are Returned Many WebService methods return an array of structs with various fields in the structs. (For example, L returns a list of C that have fields like C, C, C, etc.) These parameters allow you to limit what fields are present in the structs, to possibly improve performance or save some bandwidth. =over =item C C An array of strings, representing the (case-sensitive) names of fields in the return value. Only the fields specified in this hash will be returned, the rest will not be included. If you specify an empty array, then this function will return empty hashes. Invalid field names are ignored. Example: User.get( ids => [1], include_fields => ['id', 'name'] ) would return something like: { users => [{ id => 1, name => 'user@domain.com' }] } =item C C An array of strings, representing the (case-sensitive) names of fields in the return value. The fields specified will not be included in the returned hashes. If you specify all the fields, then this function will return empty hashes. Invalid field names are ignored. Specifying fields here overrides C, so if you specify a field in both, it will be excluded, not included. Example: User.get( ids => [1], exclude_fields => ['name'] ) would return something like: { users => [{ id => 1, real_name => 'John Smith' }] } =back =head1 SEE ALSO =head2 Server Types =over =item L =item L =back =head2 WebService Methods =over =item L =item L =item L =item L =item L =back