How to find which is the review board site directory from inside my extension

[Kartik]

Hello,

I am trying my hand at writing an extension that uses signal hooks (e.g. on_review_published) to update the jira ticket with the progress of the code review. I would like to read the jira server access info from a settings file, and the site directory (default: /var/www/reviewboard) is a good place for that file. Rather than hard-coding the path, I'd like to find what is the site directory folder, and look in there. 

My question is: How can I find which is the site directory folder from inside my extension? 

Thanks!

Kartik

[David Trowbridge]

Kartik,

Instead of storing your configuration in a file, I'd suggest providing a settings form. Any data saved by the form will get serialized to JSON and stored in the database, and then they'll be available in decoded form in `extension.settings`

See https://www.reviewboard.org/docs/manual/latest/extending/extensions/configuration/#extension-configuration for details on this.

Apologies for the current state of the extensions documentation--we're working on improving it.

David

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[Kartik]

David, 

Thank you for your response. The JIRA access information is going to come to us as a file -- it is not something that a user is going to type in. At most, the location of the file is something the user can input into a settings form. Creating a form to type in just that info seems to be a lot, especially given my limited abilities and bandwidth. So finding the site directory from inside the extension remains the most feasible option we have. 

The Extensions feature that you have, that enables a user to customize RB for their team's needs is very impressive and powerful. Thank you!

Kartik

[Kartik]

David, 

Well, we cannot get away from reading a file from disk. And the site directory seems a good place for it. So... is there a way to find what the site directory is, from inside an extension? 

Thanks again

Kartik