(updated) Using the bug_mentor field with the Bugzilla REST API to get mentored bugs

, Will Kahn-Greene | share this (mastodon)
Note: This is an old post in a blog with a lot of posts over a long span of time. The world has changed, technologies have changed, and I've changed. It's likely this is out of date, the code doesn't work, the ideas haven't aged well, or the ideas were terrible to begin with. Let me know if you think this is something that needs updating.

In my previous post, I mentioned how Bugzilla grew a mentor field and had some code on how to query Bugzilla using the old and new APIs for the list of mentored bugs. This updates that information.

Gerv and Byron pointed out there's a isnotempty operator that's better to use than the way I cobbled together to query for bugs that have data in the bug_mentor field.

Thus, the code should look like this:

import requests

# Using the old BzAPI: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:REST_API
r = requests.get(
    'https://api-dev.bugzilla.mozilla.org/latest' +
    '/bug?product=Input&f1=bug_mentor&o1=isnotempty'
)
data = r.json()
print len(data['bugs'])  # Prints 9


# Using the new BMO API. https://wiki.mozilla.org/BMO/REST
r = requests.get(
    'https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/rest' +
    '/bug?product=Input&f1=bug_mentor&o1=isnotempty'
)
data = r.json()
print len(data['bugs'])  # Prints 9
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