Command Line tool for Review Board administration

[GC]

Hi,

Does Review Board provides a CLI for administrators? We use Git as our version control system and we receive following requests from time-to-time:

Add repository

Add user

Add reviewers (Not very frequent)

Although these operations don’t consume much time, I would like to automate them, if possible.

Thanks

[Christian Hammond]

Hi,

We don't provide a tool for adding those (though that'd be a handy project for someone to work on). We do have an API, though, for adding/manipulating repositories, default reviewers, review requests, and just about anything else.

It does not support adding users, though. Most people use an LDAP or Active Directory server when they need that kind of ability. That said, I'm not opposed to adding that functionality, but it'd be low on our todo list, so the best way to get that into the product is by writing a patch and contributing it.

Christian

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[GC]

Thanks for the reply Christian. As far as our requests related to repositories is concerned, it’s only about adding (not updating) Name, Repository type, Path and Mirror path.

I checked the API link for repository resource. Although I could find fields for Name, Path and Mirror path, i could not find any field for ‘Repository type’ (Bazaaar, Clearcase, CVS etc). Is ‘tool’ field what I’m looking for? More importantly, it looks like the API supports only updation not addition. Please correct me if I’m wrong. 

https://www.reviewboard.org/docs/manual/2.5/webapi/2.0/resources/repository/

Regards,

Gaurav 

[Steve]

For my test suite, I create a perforce repo using the api this way:

from rbtools.api.client import RBClient

client = RBClient("http://localhost")
client.login("sallan", "sallan")
root = client.get_root()
root.get_repositories().create(name='perforce', tool="Perforce", path="localhost:1492")

--Steve

[GC]

Thanks for the help Steve! I'll check this out. :)

Regards,

Gaurav