6.1.7. Comments

6.1.7.1. Get Comments

This allows you to get data about comments, given a bug ID or comment ID.

Request

To get all comments for a particular bug using the bug ID or alias:

GET /rest/bug/(id_or_alias)/comment

To get a specific comment based on the comment ID:

GET /rest/bug/comment/(comment_id)

name	type	description
id_or_alias	mixed	A single integer bug ID or alias.
comment_id	int	A single integer comment ID.
new_since	datetime	If specified, the method will only return comments newer than this time. This only affects comments returned from the ids argument. You will always be returned all comments you request in the comment_ids argument, even if they are older than this date.

Response

{
  "bugs": {
    "35": {
      "comments": [
        {
          "time": "2000-07-25T13:50:04Z",
          "text": "test bug to fix problem in removing from cc list.",
          "bug_id": 35,
          "count": 0,
          "attachment_id": null,
          "is_private": false,
          "tags": [],
          "creator": "user@bugzilla.org",
          "creation_time": "2000-07-25T13:50:04Z",
          "id": 75
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "comments": {}
}

Two items are returned:

bugs This is used for bugs specified in ids. This is an object, where the keys are the numeric IDs of the bugs, and the value is a object with a single key, comments, which is an array of comments. (The format of comments is described below.)

Any individual bug will only be returned once, so if you specify an ID multiple times in ids, it will still only be returned once.

comments Each individual comment requested in comment_ids is returned here, in a object where the numeric comment ID is the key, and the value is the comment. (The format of comments is described below.)

A “comment” as described above is a object that contains the following items:

name	type	description
id	int	The globally unique ID for the comment.
bug_id	int	The ID of the bug that this comment is on.
attachment_id	int	If the comment was made on an attachment, this will be the ID of that attachment. Otherwise it will be null.
count	int	The number of the comment local to the bug. The Description is 0, comments start with 1.
text	string	The actual text of the comment.
creator	string	The login name of the comment’s author.
time	datetime	The time (in Bugzilla’s timezone) that the comment was added.
creation_time	datetime	This is exactly same as the time key. Use this field instead of time for consistency with other methods including Get Bug and Get Attachment. For compatibility, time is still usable. However, please note that time may be deprecated and removed in a future release.
is_private	boolean	true if this comment is private (only visible to a certain group called the “insidergroup”), false otherwise.

6.1.7.2. Create Comments

This allows you to add a comment to a bug in Bugzilla.

Request

To create a comment on a current bug.

POST /rest/bug/(id)/comment

{
  "comment" : "This is an additional comment",
  "is_private" : false
}

name	type	description
id	int	The ID or alias of the bug to append a comment to.
comment	string	The comment to append to the bug. If this is empty or all whitespace, an error will be thrown saying that you did not set the comment parameter.
is_private	boolean	If set to true, the comment is private, otherwise it is assumed to be public.
work_time	double	Adds this many hours to the “Hours Worked” on the bug. If you are not in the time tracking group, this value will be ignored.

Response

{
  "id" : 789
}

name	type	description
id	int	ID of the newly-created comment.

6.1.7.3. Search Comment Tags

Searches for tags which contain the provided substring.

Request

To search for comment tags:

GET /rest/bug/comment/tags/(query)

Example:

GET /rest/bug/comment/tags/spa

name	type	description
query	string	Only tags containg this substring will be returned.
limit	int	If provided will return no more than limit tags. Defaults to 10.

Response

[
  "spam"
]

An array of matching tags.

6.1.7.4. Update Comment Tags

Adds or removes tags from a comment.

Request

To update the tags comments attached to a comment:

PUT /rest/bug/comment/(comment_id)/tags

Example:

{
  "comment_id" : 75,
  "add" : ["spam", "bad"]
}

name	type	description
comment_id	int	The ID of the comment to update.
add	array	The tags to attach to the comment.
remove	array	The tags to detach from the comment.

Response

[
  "bad",
  "spam"
]

An array of strings containing the comment’s updated tags.

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