Retriving bug comments and history from Bugzilla REST API

[Sandeep Krishnan]

Hello,

I am performing some analysis on defects in open source systems that use
Bugzilla as their defect database. I am trying to extract bug information
from Bugzilla using the REST API.

I started by extracting information for a given bug ID using the following
API

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/rest/bug/35
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/rest/bug/35/comment
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/rest/bug/35/history

After reading the documentation on Wiki, I came to know that I can extract
data for multiple bugs by specifying multiple Bug Ids

e.g. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/rest/bug?id=1000&id=1001&id=1002&...

But this only gives me bug info for all the specified bugs and not the
History and comments associated with the bugs.
I would like to know if I can do the same thing to get the History and
Comments data from Bugzilla. Based on documentation, it seems I can get the
comments and history for only a single bug at a time. Is there a way to
extract the History and Comments for for multiple bugs at a time? I would
like this so that it can reduce the number of API calls I make and reduce
the total time.

Thanks,
Sandeep

[rutra...@gmail.com]

Hello,

What I've found during my analysis is (based on version 5.0.1):

.../rest/bug/1/comment?ids=2&ids=3&api_key=...

The response is: comments for bug id 1, 2, and 3.

However I agree that this is not clearly mentioned in docs.
Bugzilla Team - please comment.

[Sandeep Krishnan]

Thanks a lot! That works. I had tried this but I had used "
.../rest/bug/1/comment?*id*=2&*id*=3&*id*=4..." instead of
"...*ids*=2&*ids*=3&..."
.

The only thing to make sure is that the bug id provided before the
"/comment?.." should be a valid bugID. It does not work for bugID 1 since I
get the response that it is not a valid bugID. But it worked when I gave a
valid bugID.

It would be nice if we can add this in the docs.

Thanks again.

Sandeep

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> The only thing to make sure is that the bug id provided before the
> "/comment?.." should be a valid bugID.

I agree - this must be valid bugID.

Please wait for Bugzilla Team confirmation that this is proper way of working, as this is just what I found during REST analysis done in company where I work.