Re: [mylar-dev] Using the generic connector

[Dan Adams <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Eugene. I'll give that a try. Another question is, how do I know
when mylar has logged in to the bug tracker? Our uses a very very simple
login which just stores your username in a cookie.

On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 15:59 -0500, Eugene Kuleshov wrote:
> Dan,
> 
>   Also see the FAQ in the Mylar wiki at 
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylar_FAQ#Generic_Web_Repository_Connector
> 
>   You can use little hack to see if your page has been loaded. With 
> regexp like (.+?)(\n) preview will show content of the page - one line 
> per table row. We may need to improve this or have some integration with 
> QuickRex plugin.
> 
>   Regexp for your html may look something like this:
> 
> <tr>.+?<td.+?><a.+?>(.+?)</a></td>.+?<td.+?>.+?</td>.+?<td.+?>.+?</td>.+?<td.+?>.+?</td>.+?<td.+?>(.+?)</td>
> 
>   or shorter:
> 
> <tr>.+?<td.+?><a.+?>(.+?)</a></td>.+?(?:<td.+?</td>.+?){3}<td.+?>(.+?)</td>
> 
>   You might need to be more specific to make sure it won't pickup 
> unrelated table rows, i.e. add
> 
>  <a href="bugdb.cgi\?func=bug_detail.+?>
> 
>   regards,
>   Eugene
> 
> 
> Dan Adams wrote:
> > Hey guys, Mylar is really cool. We have a home-grown small bug tracking
> >         system that I'd really really like to use with mylar. The
> >         problem is
> >         that I'm having trouble using the generic connector. If it can't
> >         connect
> >         I can't seem to be able to see what failed. So my questions are:
> >         
> >         - How can I tell whether or not it was able to log in?
> >         - How can I get feedback about whether or not a query parser
> >         matches?
> >         
> >         Here is the html for one row of a list page that I would need to
> >         parse:
> >         
> >         <tr>
> >         <td class="priority3" valign="top"><a
> >         href="bugdb.cgi?func=bug_detail&amp;project_id=728&amp;bug_num=0370&amp;i=0&amp;n=12">THIS IS THE ID0370</a></td>
> >         <td class="priority3" valign="top">open</td>
> >         <td class="priority3" align="center" valign="top"><img
> >         src="img/3dots.gif"></td>
> >         <td class="priority3" valign="top">dadams</td>
> >         <td class="priority3" valign="top">
> >         <b>THIS IS THE DESCRIPTIONremove express presentations from nav.
> >         items</b>
> >         </td>
> >         <td class="priority3" nowrap="nowrap"
> >         valign="top">function-general</td>
> >         <td class="priority3" align="right" nowrap="nowrap"
> >         valign="top">1/24/07</td>
> >         <td class="priority3" valign="top">0</td>
> >         <td class="priority3" valign="top">0</td>
> >         </tr>
> >         
> >         any suggestions? Thanks!
> >         
> >         -- 
> >         Dan Adams
> >         Senior Software Engineer
> >         Interactive Factory
> >         617.235.5857
> >
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