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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