Is there a way to set Read-Only values?

[Richard Pflaum]

Hi, 

I’m currently trying to convince our team to get rid of Bugzilla and replace it with the Taiga issues module.

To that end I’m writing an import from a Bugzilla database into the Taiga Issues module.

I have been using the respective REST APIs via the modules python-taiga and python-bugzilla.

The one thing I'm missing is the ability to set the original reporter from Bugzilla as the owner of the issue in Taiga, as well as the creation time.

I saw in the Taiga REST API docs that these fields are read-only: https://docs.taiga.io/api.html#_read_only_fields

 Is it possible to set the owner during issue creation?

 

If I can't change the owner, I can't use the REST API for the data import.

If I’m not mistaken, creating a data dump json file from the Bugzilla data is also not an option, because I’m not going to be able to import that into an existing project.

Being able to import the owners is crucial, because the users will want to test the filtering abilities of Taiga.

Obviously, filtering by the issues you created yourself is an important use case, that people need to see.

Unfortunately, Filtering by the people in CC is not possible in Taiga.

 

Is there a way to achieve a proper data import? How would you go about it?

I assume messing with the database directly is probably not a good idea.

Will this be easier in Taiga Next?

Best regards,

Richard