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Hi Wolfgang,
We set a requirement of not modifying the Bugzilla server since that would limit us from supporting bugs.eclipse.org and other public servers. So we built support for parsing the content from the HTML for standard Bugzilla 2.16 and 2.18 configurations. It works great for existing Bugzilla servers but can fail if there are customizations in the HTML, and I assume that it will have problems on 2.20. On the bright side we fail gracefully by displaying Bugzilla’s messages in an HTML dialog, and we always allow the user to open the report in the internal browser if they encounter an issue or a limitation. And we support adding custom HTML queries by pasting the URL from the browser.
We would love to take contributions to make the Bugzilla support better and are looking for developers interested in helping with that. We would also be happy to support your use or embedding of our Bugzilla support (org.eclipse.mylar.bugzilla.core can be made to run outside of Eclipse). Please post any ideas that you have for cooperating.
Thinking longer term, what would work way better is if we had some kind of web service API for Bugzilla. I plan on posting a comment on the following bugzilla.org report once Mylar 0.4 is out, and maybe it would be good for them to get your input too: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224577
Mik
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mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Beer Wolfgang
Dear Mylar Team,
Last time i heard about the Mylar project, and more interesting for me, about the Bugzilla/Eclipse integration. Our research company also decided to integrate Bugzilla support into the Eclipse IDE, for convenience purposes. In a spin-off project we implemented a core library in order to access Bugzilla over HTTP and a Bugzilla plugin in order to integrate this functionality into Eclipse.
I tested your Bugzilla integration and my first question is, if you had to modify the Bugzilla server in order to access it (we had to do so because Bugzilla delivers Unstructured HTML content and we would like to have structured XML returns).
As my company is going to publish our solution as Open Source it would be interesting if we could cooperate in this aspect and to exchange experiences.
please tell me your opinions…
best greetings Wolfgang
_________________________________________________________ Head of Mobile & Embedded Computing Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH
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