Python use of Mingle API

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  Rudiger Wolf June 25, 2008 16:00

  I found that changing method=”PUT” got me past resource you requested does not exist error.

  
  

  The http://studios.thoughtworks.com/mingle/2.0.1/help/mingle_api.html says that either a POST or PUT can be used to update content.

  
  

  Now I have a problem where the only change that happens when I run the script to update card fields is a new updated_at value.
  <updated_at type="datetime">2008-06-25T11:44:20Z</updated_at>

  
  

  But the fields such as name have not actually been updated.

  
  

  Any thoughts?
  Thanks Rudi

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  Rudiger Wolf June 27, 2008 13:10

  I got something working eventually.

  
  

  
  import httplib
  import urllib
  import base64
  mingle_username = 'user name'
  mingle_password = 'password'
  base64string = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (username, password))[:-1]
  authheader =  "Basic %s" % base64string
  headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded","Accept": "text/plain","Authorization": authheader}
  #What is it that we want to change? Note use the same card property names that are returned via the HTTP GET module.
  params = urllib.urlencode({'card[cp_sprint_number]':'8','card[name]': 'Test Name','card[cp_target_release_number]':'RX','card[cp_sprint_development_complete]':'3'})  
  print params
  # Now connect to the webserver and get data updated
  conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("10.40.30.23:8080")  # ID = 1617.xml and Card number = 634.xml
  conn.request("PUT", "/projects/project/cards/1617.xml", params, headers)
  response = conn.getresponse()
  print response.status, response.reason
  data = response.read()
  print data
  conn.close()
  

  
  

  Hope this helps someone.

  
  

  -Rudiger Wolf

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  Li Xiao July 19, 2008 00:16

  Hi rnwolf,

  
  

  The updated_at is a read-only attribute, so you can’t update it and it would be updated automatically every time you updated the card.

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  Rudiger Wolf July 23, 2008 17:25

  Hi

  
  

  I am having some problems getting information from Mingle via API for filtered card set. Would you be able to suggest how I can apply filters to the GET query?

  
  

  Adding encoded parameters to the URL does not seem to work. I am using Python 2.5 on Windows XP.

  
  

  
  import httplib2
  from urllib import urlencode
  http = httplib2.Http()
  mingle_user = 'user'
  mingle_pass = 'password'
  http.add_credentials(mingle_user, mingle_pass)
  uri = 'http://10.40.30.3:8080/projects/columbus3/cards.xml'
  params = {'filter[]':'[Type][is][story]'}
  url = uri    + '&' + urlencode(params)
  print url
  response, content = http.request(url,'GET')
  print response
  print content
  

  
  

  When I add parameters to the url I get a ‘status’: ‘406’ error.
  If I leave off paramters then I get an xml file with a limited list of all cards.

  
  

  Please help me get a filtered card set back from Mingle via API.

  
  

  Thanks
  Rudi

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  Li Xiao July 30, 2008 09:00

  Hi Rudi,

  
  

  The param name you specified for filters is wrong, it should be “filters[]”.
  And you should not encode all params.
  If some param value need to be encoded, you should only encode the param value,

  
  

  for example:
  
filters[]=[Type][is][#{urlencode('xxx&xx')}]


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