5.7.91. Bugzilla::WebService::Bugzilla¶

5.7.91.1. NAME¶

Bugzilla::WebService::Bugzilla - Global functions for the webservice interface.

5.7.91.2. DESCRIPTION¶

This provides functions that tell you about Bugzilla in general.

5.7.91.3. METHODS¶

See Bugzilla::WebService for a description of how parameters are passed, and what STABLE, UNSTABLE, and EXPERIMENTAL mean.

Although the data input and output is the same for JSONRPC, XMLRPC and REST, the directions for how to access the data via REST is noted in each method where applicable.

version¶

STABLE

Description

Returns the current version of Bugzilla.

REST

GET /rest/version

The returned data format is the same as below.

Params (none)
Returns

A hash with a single item, version, that is the version as a string.

Errors (none)
History

REST API call added in Bugzilla 5.0.

extensions¶

EXPERIMENTAL

Description

Gets information about the extensions that are currently installed and enabled in this Bugzilla.

REST

GET /rest/extensions

The returned data format is the same as below.

Params (none)
Returns

A hash with a single item, extensions. This points to a hash. That hash contains the names of extensions as keys, and the values are a hash. That hash contains a single key version, which is the version of the extension, or 0 if the extension hasn’t defined a version.

The return value looks something like this:
extensions => {
    Example => {
        version => '3.6',
    },
    BmpConvert => {
        version => '1.0',
    },
}

History

Added in Bugzilla 3.2.

As of Bugzilla 3.6, the names of extensions are canonical names that the extensions define themselves. Before 3.6, the names of the

extensions depended on the directory they were in on the Bugzilla server.

REST API call added in Bugzilla 5.0.

timezone¶

DEPRECATED This method may be removed in a future version of Bugzilla. Use time instead.

Description

Returns the timezone that Bugzilla expects dates and times in.

REST

GET /rest/timezone

The returned data format is the same as below.

Params (none)
Returns

A hash with a single item, timezone, that is the timezone offset as a string in (+/-)XXXX (RFC 2822) format.

History

As of Bugzilla 3.6, the timezone returned is always +0000 (the UTC timezone).

REST API call added in Bugzilla 5.0.

time¶

STABLE

Description

Gets information about what time the Bugzilla server thinks it is, and what timezone it’s running in.

REST

GET /rest/time

The returned data format is the same as below.

Params (none)
Returns

A struct with the following items:

db_time

dateTime The current time in UTC, according to the Bugzilla database server.

Note that Bugzilla assumes that the database and the webserver are running in the same time zone. However, if the web server and the database server aren’t synchronized for some reason, this is the time that you should rely on for doing searches and other input to the WebService.

web_time

dateTime This is the current time in UTC, according to Bugzilla’s web server.

This might be different by a second from db_time since this comes from a different source. If it’s any more different than a second, then there is likely some problem with this Bugzilla instance. In this case you should rely on the db_time, not the web_time.

web_time_utc

Identical to web_time. (Exists only for backwards-compatibility with versions of Bugzilla before 3.6.)

tz_name

string The literal string UTC. (Exists only for backwards-compatibility with versions of Bugzilla before 3.6.)

tz_short_name

string The literal string UTC. (Exists only for backwards-compatibility with versions of Bugzilla before 3.6.)

tz_offset

string The literal string +0000. (Exists only for backwards-compatibility with versions of Bugzilla before 3.6.)

History

Added in Bugzilla 3.4.

As of Bugzilla 3.6, this method returns all data as though the server were in the UTC timezone, instead of returning information in the server’s

local timezone.

REST API call added in Bugzilla 5.0.

parameters¶

UNSTABLE

Description

Returns parameter values currently used in this Bugzilla.

REST

GET /rest/parameters

The returned data format is the same as below.

Params (none)
Returns

A hash with a single item parameters which contains a hash with the name of the parameters as keys and their value as values. All values are returned as strings. The list of parameters returned by this method depends on the user credentials:

A logged-out user can only access the maintainer and requirelogin parameters.

A logged-in user can access the following parameters (listed alphabetically):

allowemailchange, attachment_base, commentonchange_resolution, commentonduplicate, cookiepath, defaultopsys, defaultplatform, defaultpriority, defaultseverity, duplicate_or_move_bug_status, emailregexpdesc, emailsuffix, letsubmitterchoosemilestone, letsubmitterchoosepriority, mailfrom, maintainer, maxattachmentsize, maxlocalattachment, musthavemilestoneonaccept, noresolveonopenblockers, password_complexity, rememberlogin, requirelogin, search_allow_no_criteria, urlbase, use_see_also, useclassification, usemenuforusers, useqacontact, usestatuswhiteboard, usetargetmilestone.

A user in the tweakparams group can access all existing parameters. New parameters can appear or obsolete parameters can disappear depending on the version of Bugzilla and on extensions being installed. The list of parameters returned by this method is not stable and will never be stable.

History

Added in Bugzilla 4.4.

REST API call added in Bugzilla 5.0.

last_audit_time¶

EXPERIMENTAL

Description

Gets the latest time of the audit_log table.

REST

GET /rest/last_audit_time

The returned data format is the same as below.

Params

You can pass the optional parameter class to get the maximum for only the listed classes.

class (array) - An array of strings representing the class names.

Note: The class names are defined as “Bugzilla::<class_name>”. For the product use Bugzilla:Product.

Returns

A hash with a single item, last_audit_time, that is the maximum of the at_time from the audit_log.

Errors (none)
History