6.1.12. Products

This part of the Bugzilla API allows you to list the available products and get information about them.

6.1.12.1. List Products

Returns a list of the IDs of the products the user can search on.

Request

To get a list of product IDs a user can select such as for querying bugs:

GET /rest/product_selectable

To get a list of product IDs a user can enter a bug against:

GET /rest/product_enterable

To get a list of product IDs a user can search or enter bugs against.

GET /rest/product_accessible

Response

{
  "ids": [
    "2",
    "3",
    "19",
    "1",
    "4"
  ]
}

name

type

description

ids

array

List of integer product IDs.

6.1.12.2. Get Product

Returns a list of information about the products passed to it.

Request

To return information about a specific type of products such as accessible, selectable, or enterable:

GET /rest/product?type=accessible

To return information about a specific product by id or name:

GET /rest/product/(id_or_name)

You can also return information about more than one product by using the following parameters in your query string:

GET /rest/product?ids=1&ids=2&ids=3
GET /rest/product?names=ProductOne&names=Product2

name

type

description

id_or_name

mixed

Integer product ID or product name.

ids

array

Product IDs

names

array

Product names

type

string

The group of products to return. Valid values are accessible (default), selectable, and enterable. type can be a single value or an array of values if more than one group is needed with duplicates removed.

Response

{
  "products": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "default_milestone": "---",
      "components": [
        {
          "is_active": true,
          "default_assigned_to": "admin@bugzilla.org",
          "id": 1,
          "sort_key": 0,
          "name": "TestComponent",
          "flag_types": {
            "bug": [
              {
                "is_active": true,
                "grant_group": null,
                "cc_list": "",
                "is_requestable": true,
                "id": 3,
                "is_multiplicable": true,
                "name": "needinfo",
                "request_group": null,
                "is_requesteeble": true,
                "sort_key": 0,
                "description": "needinfo"
              }
            ],
            "attachment": [
              {
                "description": "Review",
                "is_multiplicable": true,
                "name": "review",
                "is_requesteeble": true,
                "request_group": null,
                "sort_key": 0,
                "cc_list": "",
                "grant_group": null,
                "is_requestable": true,
                "id": 2,
                "is_active": true
              }
            ]
          },
          "default_qa_contact": "",
          "description": "This is a test component."
        }
      ],
      "is_active": true,
      "classification": "Unclassified",
      "versions": [
        {
          "id": 1,
          "name": "unspecified",
          "is_active": true,
          "sort_key": 0
        }
      ],
      "description": "This is a test product.",
      "has_unconfirmed": true,
      "milestones": [
        {
          "name": "---",
          "is_active": true,
          "sort_key": 0,
          "id": 1
        }
      ],
      "name": "TestProduct"
    }
  ]
}

products (array) Each product object has the following items:

name

type

description

id

int

An integer ID uniquely identifying the product in this installation only.

name

string

The name of the product. This is a unique identifier for the product.

description

string

A description of the product, which may contain HTML.

is_active

boolean

A boolean indicating if the product is active.

default_milestone

string

The name of the default milestone for the product.

has_unconfirmed

boolean

Indicates whether the UNCONFIRMED bug status is available for this product.

classification

string

The classification name for the product.

components

array

Each component object has the items described in the Component object below.

versions

array

Each object describes a version, and has the following items: name, sort_key and is_active.

milestones

array

Each object describes a milestone, and has the following items: name, sort_key and is_active.

If the user tries to access a product that is not in the list of accessible products for the user, or a product that does not exist, that is silently ignored, and no information about that product is returned.

Component object:

name

type

description

id

int

An integer ID uniquely identifying the component in this installation only.

name

string

The name of the component. This is a unique identifier for this component.

description

string

A description of the component, which may contain HTML.

default_assigned_to

string

The login name of the user to whom new bugs will be assigned by default.

default_qa_contact

string

The login name of the user who will be set as the QA Contact for new bugs by default. Empty string if the QA contact is not defined.

sort_key

int

Components, when displayed in a list, are sorted first by this integer and then secondly by their name.

is_active

boolean

A boolean indicating if the component is active. Inactive components are not enabled for new bugs.

flag_types

object

An object containing two items bug and attachment that each contains an array of objects, where each describes a flagtype. The flagtype items are described in the Flagtype object below.

Flagtype object:

name

type

description

id

int

Returns the ID of the flagtype.

name

string

Returns the name of the flagtype.

description

string

Returns the description of the flagtype.

cc_list

string

Returns the concatenated CC list for the flagtype, as a single string.

sort_key

int

Returns the sortkey of the flagtype.

is_active

boolean

Returns whether the flagtype is active or disabled. Flags being in a disabled flagtype are not deleted. It only prevents you from adding new flags to it.

is_requestable

boolean

Returns whether you can request for the given flagtype (i.e. whether the ‘?’ flag is available or not).

is_requesteeble

boolean

Returns whether you can ask someone specifically or not.

is_multiplicable

boolean

Returns whether you can have more than one flag for the given flagtype in a given bug/attachment.

grant_group

int

the group ID that is allowed to grant/deny flags of this type. If the item is not included all users are allowed to grant/deny this flagtype.

request_group

int

The group ID that is allowed to request the flag if the flag is of the type requestable. If the item is not included all users are allowed request this flagtype.

6.1.12.3. Create Product

This allows you to create a new product in Bugzilla.

Request

POST /rest/product
{
  "name" : "AnotherProduct",
  "description" : "Another Product",
  "classification" : "Unclassified",
  "is_open" : false,
  "has_unconfirmed" : false,
  "version" : "unspecified"
}

Some params must be set, or an error will be thrown. The required params are marked in bold.

name

type

description

name

string

The name of this product. Must be globally unique within Bugzilla.

description

string

A description for this product. Allows some simple HTML.

version

string

The default version for this product.

has_unconfirmed

boolean

Allow the UNCONFIRMED status to be set on bugs in this product. Default: true.

classification

string

The name of the Classification which contains this product.

default_milestone

string

The default milestone for this product. Default ‘—‘.

is_open

boolean

true if the product is currently allowing bugs to be entered into it. Default: true.

create_series

boolean

true if you want series for New Charts to be created for this new product. Default: true.

Response

{
  "id": 20
}

Returns an object with the following items:

name

type

description

id

int

ID of the newly-filed product.

6.1.12.4. Update Product

This allows you to update a product in Bugzilla.

Request

PUT /rest/product/(id_or_name)

You can edit a single product by passing the ID or name of the product in the URL. To edit more than one product, you can specify addition IDs or product names using the ids or names parameters respectively.

{
  "ids" : [123],
  "name" : "BarName",
  "has_unconfirmed" : false
}

One of the below must be specified.

name

type

description

id_or_name

mixed

Integer product ID or name.

ids

array

Numeric IDs of the products that you wish to update.

names

array

Names of the products that you wish to update.

The following parameters specify the new values you want to set for the product(s) you are updating.

name

type

description

name

string

A new name for this product. If you try to set this while updating more than one product, an error will occur, as product names must be unique.

default_milestone

string

When a new bug is filed, what milestone does it get by default if the user does not choose one? Must represent a milestone that is valid for this product.

description

string

Update the long description for these products to this value.

has_unconfirmed

boolean

Allow the UNCONFIRMED status to be set on bugs in products.

is_open

boolean

true if the product is currently allowing bugs to be entered into it, false otherwise.

Response

{
   "products" : [
      {
         "id" : 123,
         "changes" : {
            "name" : {
               "removed" : "FooName",
               "added" : "BarName"
            },
            "has_unconfirmed" : {
               "removed" : "1",
               "added" : "0"
            }
         }
      }
   ]
}

products (array) Product change objects containing the following items:

name

type

description

id

int

The ID of the product that was updated.

changes

object

The changes that were actually done on this product. The keys are the names of the fields that were changed, and the values are an object with two items:

  • added: (string) The value that this field was changed to.

  • removed: (string) The value that was previously set in this field.

Booleans will be represented with the strings ‘1’ and ‘0’ for changed values as they are stored as strings in the database currently.


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