Feature Request: Expose Time Tracker Start and Stop in API

[ekrgb]

• Gitea version (or commit ref): 1.7.1 (Docker image from Docker Hub)
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Description

While it is possible to add time to an issue, it is not possible to trigger the functionality to start or stop logging time on an issue as it is provided by the Web Interface (see screen below) via API (in accordance to /api/swagger in version 1.7.1).

By this feature request I want to suggest to expose this functionality via API as well - including the ability to query if time us currently tracked ("Start" was issued but no "Stop" yet) or not.

Thank you very much for considering this feature request.

Background

Concrete Personal Example

Just my personal issue which would be solved by the implementation of this request:

We are managing our tasks and issues via the "issues functionality" in Gitea, which is working very well for us. By doing so, we also use the "Start" and "Stop" time tracking functionality via the Gitea Web Interface (which seems to had been introduced by #967) which comes very handy.

One issue with that is, that when an Gitea issue is closed by mentioning it in the commit comment or pull request (see #462), the time tracking is not stopped. That for itself would not be a problem as a web hook could be registered for issue changes and when called an API call could be issued to stop the time tracking on the issue - if such an API call would be available.

I would suggest not to change the behaviour when the issue is closed by mentioning it in the commit comment or pull request, as this would allow the maximum flexibility but to allow for automation like outlined above it would be necessary to have the "Start/Stop" functionality exposed via API.

In General

In general I believe it would make a lot of sense to expose the "Start/Stop" functionality exposed via API as there could be a number of scenarios where this would allow automation for more efficient handling of issues in Gitea.

Screenshots

Time Tracker in UI for Reference

[adelowo]

While this is nice, in the meantime while we wait on the PR for an API, I will update #4327 to take issues that are closed via commits into account too

[adelowo]

@ekrgb #4327 has been merged so the root cause of this issue should be fixed.
The Stopwatch will be stopped whenever an issue is closed ( via close button or a commit. ).

There wouldn't be a backport to 1.7.X so you will need to
make use of the docker image built off master.

Regardless, this issue will still be opened pending a PR for the API.

[ekrgb]

@adelowo great! thank you very much!