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Bug 337087 - [upstream] retrieve Gerrit configuration using Gerrit API
Summary: [upstream] retrieve Gerrit configuration using Gerrit API
Status: CLOSED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: z_Archived
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: Mylyn (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P4 enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Project Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2011-02-14 01:08 EST by Steffen Pingel CLA
Modified: 2015-01-06 19:29 EST (History)
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Description Steffen Pingel CLA 2011-02-14 01:08:44 EST 
The Gerrit configuration which is encoded in a JavaScript variable called "gerrit_hostpagedata" in the Gerrit web sites includes valuable configuration details such as approval types. This configuration needs to be made available to the Gerrit connector somehow.
Comment 1 Steffen Pingel CLA 2011-02-14 01:10:25 EST 
I couldn't find an RPC service that exposes the configuration details. Did I miss something?
Comment 2 Shawn Pearce CLA 2011-02-14 10:02:33 EST 
Nope, its not available except in the host HTML page.

Gerrit will need to add this as a new service to expose it in plain JSON for Mylyn.
Comment 3 Steffen Pingel CLA 2011-02-14 16:06:07 EST 
Thanks for confirming that. What is the best way to approach it? Should I file a bug against Gerrit to propose that change?
Comment 4 Shawn Pearce CLA 2011-02-14 17:40:00 EST 
(In reply to comment #3)
> Thanks for confirming that. What is the best way to approach it? Should I file
> a bug against Gerrit to propose that change?

Yes, otherwise it won't ever get done.  :-(
Comment 5 Steffen Pingel CLA 2011-02-17 17:56:45 EST 
I have filed an enhancement request against Gerrit: http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=848 .
Comment 6 Miles Parker CLA 2013-04-18 19:01:59 EDT 
Steffen, do we have what you wanted now with: bug 404933?
Comment 7 Steffen Pingel CLA 2013-04-20 05:35:37 EDT 
AFAIK, the Gerrit connector still relies on parsing JavaScript to obtain the configuration (see GerritClient.refreshConfig()). At this point, we don't have any other API to obtain the data we need.
Comment 8 Miles Parker CLA 2013-04-22 18:26:08 EDT 
(In reply to comment #7)
> AFAIK, the Gerrit connector still relies on parsing JavaScript to obtain the
> configuration (see GerritClient.refreshConfig()). At this point, we don't have
> any other API to obtain the data we need.

That's correct, and is implicated in bug 406256. It would be really nice to replace this.
Comment 9 Miles Parker CLA 2014-12-23 19:30:06 EST 
I believe that this was addressed a long time ago incidentally. Please reopen if I'm wrong about that.
Comment 10 Sam Davis CLA 2015-01-06 14:44:07 EST 
Seems like this is still parsing JavaScript to get the config. The Gerrit bug is still open.
Comment 11 Miles Parker CLA 2015-01-06 15:34:13 EST 
Where is that happening exactly, Sam?
Comment 12 Sam Davis CLA 2015-01-06 19:29:33 EST 
GerritHtmlProcessor I think.
Comment 13 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2022-11-15 11:45:08 EST 
Mylyn has been restructured, and our issue tracking has moved to GitHub [1].

We are closing ~14K Bugzilla issues to give the new team a fresh start. If you feel that this issue is still relevant, please create a new one on GitHub.

[1] https://github.com/orgs/eclipse-mylyn