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Request Tracker REST Interface

Best Practical RT (Request Tracker) data access python module for REST interface.

Installation

Using pip:

$ pip install git+https://github.com/z4r/python-rtkit

RT REST API Summary

More detailed version: Request Tracker Wiki

01

W

Create ticket ticket/new
02 RW Read/Update ticket ticket/<ticket-id>
03

W

Create ticket comment ticket/<ticket-id>/comment
04 RW Read/Update ticket links ticket/<ticket-id>/links
05 R Read ticket attachments ticket/<ticket-id>/attachments
06 R Read ticket attachment ticket/<ticket-id>/attachments/<attachment-id>
07 R Read ticket attachment content ticket/<ticket-id>/attachments/<attachment-id>/content
08 R Read ticket history ticket/<ticket-id>/history
09 R Read detailed ticket history ticket/<ticket-id>/history?format=l
10 R Read ticket history item ticket/<ticket-id>/history/id/<history-id>
11 R Read user by id user/<user-id>
12 R Read user by name user/<user-Name>
13 R Read queue by id queue/<queue-id>
14 R Read queue by name queue/<queue-Name>
15 R Search tickets search/ticket?query=<q>&orderby=<o>&format=<f>

Overview on Low Level API

Basic Authentication

from rtkit.resource import RTResource
from rtkit.authenticators import BasicAuthenticator
from rtkit.errors import RTResourceError

from rtkit import set_logging
import logging
set_logging('debug')
logger = logging.getLogger('rtkit')

auth = BasicAuthenticator('<USER>', '<PWD>')
resource = RTResource('http://<HOST>/REST/1.0/', auth)
from rtkit.resource import RTResource
from rtkit.authenticators import CookieAuthenticator
from rtkit.errors import RTResourceError

from rtkit import set_logging
import logging
set_logging('debug')
logger = logging.getLogger('rtkit')

auth = CookieAuthenticator('<USER>', '<PWD>')
resource = RTResource('http://<HOST>/REST/1.0/', auth)

Create ticket

message = 'My useless\ntext on\nthree lines.'
content = {
    'Queue': 1,#'', 2
    'Subject' : 'New Ticket',
    'Text' : message.replace('\n', '\n '),
}
try:
    response = resource.post(path='ticket/new', payload=content,)
    logger.info(response.parsed)
except RTResourceError as e:
    logger.error(e.response.status_int)
    logger.error(e.response.status)
    logger.error(e.response.parsed)
#OK
[DEBUG] POST ticket/new
[DEBUG] {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'Accept': 'text/plain', 'User-Agent': 'pyRTkit/0.0.1'}
[DEBUG] u'content=Queue: 1\nText: My useless\n text on\n three lines.\nSubject: New Ticket\n'
[INFO] HTTP_STATUS: 200 OK
[DEBUG] 'RT/3.8.10 200 Ok\n\n# Ticket 17 created.\n\n'
[INFO] RESOURCE_STATUS: 200 Ok
[INFO] [[('id', 'ticket/17')]]
#MISSING OR MISSPELLED QUEUE
[DEBUG] POST ticket/new
[DEBUG] {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'Accept': 'text/plain', 'User-Agent': 'pyRTkit/0.0.1'}
[DEBUG] u'content=Queue: \nText: My useless\n text on\n three lines.\nSubject: New Ticket\n'
[INFO] HTTP_STATUS: 200 OK
[DEBUG] 'RT/3.8.10 200 Ok\n\n# Could not create ticket.\n# Could not create ticket. Queue not set\n\n'
[INFO] RESOURCE_STATUS: 400 Could not create ticket. Queue not set
[ERROR] 400
[ERROR] 400 Could not create ticket. Queue not set
[ERROR] []
#NO PERMISSION ON QUEUE
[DEBUG] POST ticket/new
[DEBUG] {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'Accept': 'text/plain', 'User-Agent': 'pyRTkit/0.0.1'}
[DEBUG] u'content=Queue: 2\nText: My useless\n text on\n three lines.\nSubject: New Ticket\n'
[INFO] HTTP_STATUS: 200 OK
[DEBUG] "RT/3.8.10 200 Ok\n\n# Could not create ticket.\n# No permission to create tickets in the queue '___Approvals'\n\n"
[INFO] RESOURCE_STATUS: 400 No permission to create tickets in the queue '___Approvals'
[ERROR] 400
[ERROR] 400 No permission to create tickets in the queue '___Approvals'
[ERROR] []

Read a ticket

try:
    response = resource.get(path='ticket/1')
    for r in response.parsed:
        for t in r:
            logger.info(t)
except RTResourceError as e:
    logger.error(e.response.status_int)
    logger.error(e.response.status)
    logger.error(e.response.parsed)
#TICKET FOUND
[DEBUG] GET ticket/1
[DEBUG] {'Accept': 'text/plain', 'User-Agent': 'pyRTkit/0.0.1'}
[DEBUG] None
[INFO] HTTP_STATUS: 200 OK
[DEBUG] 'RT/3.8.10 200 Ok\n\nid: ticket/1\nQueue: General\nOwner: Nobody\nCreator: pyrtkit\nSubject: pyrt-create4\nStatus: open\nPriority: 5\nInitialPriority: 0\nFinalPriority: 0\nRequestors:\nCc:\nAdminCc:\nCreated: Sun Jul 03 10:48:57 2011\nStarts: Not set\nStarted: Not set\nDue: Not set\nResolved: Not set\nTold: Wed Jul 06 12:58:00 2011\nLastUpdated: Thu Jul 07 14:42:32 2011\nTimeEstimated: 0\nTimeWorked: 25 minutes\nTimeLeft: 0\n\n'
[INFO] RESOURCE_STATUS: 200 Ok
[INFO] ('id', 'ticket/1')
[INFO] ('Queue', 'General')
[INFO] ('Owner', 'Nobody')
[INFO] ('Creator', 'pyrtkit')
[INFO] ('Subject', 'pyrt-create4')
[INFO] ('Status', 'open')
[INFO] ('Priority', '5')
[INFO] ('InitialPriority', '0')
[INFO] ('FinalPriority', '0')
[INFO] ('Requestors', '')
[INFO] ('Cc', '')
[INFO] ('AdminCc', '')
[INFO] ('Created', 'Sun Jul 03 10:48:57 2011')
[INFO] ('Starts', 'Not set')
[INFO] ('Started', 'Not set')
[INFO] ('Due', 'Not set')
[INFO] ('Resolved', 'Not set')
[INFO] ('Told', 'Wed Jul 06 12:58:00 2011')
[INFO] ('LastUpdated', 'Thu Jul 07 14:42:32 2011')
[INFO] ('TimeEstimated', '0')
[INFO] ('TimeWorked', '25 minutes')
[INFO] ('TimeLeft', '0')
#TICKET NOT FOUND
[DEBUG] GET ticket/100
[DEBUG] {'Accept': 'text/plain', 'User-Agent': 'pyRTkit/0.0.1'}
[DEBUG] None
[INFO] HTTP_STATUS: 200 OK
[DEBUG] 'RT/3.8.10 200 Ok\n\n# Ticket 100 does not exist.\n\n\n'
[INFO] RESOURCE_STATUS: 404 Ticket 100 does not exist
[ERROR] 404
[ERROR] 404 Ticket 100 does not exist
[ERROR] []

Ticket (or ticket's links) editing hasn't all-or-nothing behaviour; so it's very difficult to capture errors. For example trying to change Queue to a not admitted one (or to edit an unknown field) RT will return:

RT/3.8.10 409 Syntax Error

# queue: You may not create requests in that queue.
# spam: Unknown field.

id:
Subject: Try Edit Ticket
TimeWorked: 1
Queue: 2
Spam: 10

For now rtkit will raise SyntaxError with the errors list in e.response.parsed

[DEBUG] POST ticket/1
[DEBUG] {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'Accept': 'text/plain', 'User-Agent': 'pyRTkit/0.0.1'}
[DEBUG] u'content=Queue: 2\nSpam: 10\nTimeWorked: 1\nSubject: Try Edit Ticket\n'
[INFO] HTTP_STATUS: 200 OK
[DEBUG] 'RT/3.8.10 409 Syntax Error\n\n# queue: You may not create requests in that queue.\n# spam: Unknown field.\n\nid: \nSubject: Try Edit Ticket\nTimeWorked: 1\nQueue: 2\nSpam: 10\n\n'
[INFO] RESOURCE_STATUS: 409 Syntax Error
[ERROR] 409
[ERROR] 409 Syntax Error
[ERROR] [[('queue', 'You may not create requests in that queue.'), ('spam', 'Unknown field.')]]

Comment on a Ticket with Attachments

Usually your requests will be something like this.

try:
    params = {
        'content' :{
            'Action' : 'comment',
            'Text' : 'Comment with attach',
            'Attachment' : 'x.txt, 140x105.jpg',
        },
        'attachment_1' : file('x.txt'),
        'attachment_2' : file('140x105.jpg'),
    }
    response = resource.post(path='ticket/16/comment', payload=params,)
    for r in response.parsed:
        for t in r:
            logger.info(t)
except RTResourceError as e:
    logger.error(e.response.status_int)
    logger.error(e.response.status)
    logger.error(e.response.parsed)

License

This software is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. See the LICENSE file in the top distribution directory for the full license text.

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