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[Kevin Dixon]

My mistake - I was mis-using API. With some more fiddling, I have access to
at least some issue via API.
Thanks Ben!

On 21 March 2017 at 20:18, Kevin Dixon <kevinrdixon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ben,
>
> Thanks for the reply. I had already tried the API, but alas it fails with
> a 404 because I'm not a member of the VTK project.... I've an outstanding
> request on Gitlab for access to the project - perhaps you know who might
> expedite that so that I can access the issues via the API?
>
> On 21 March 2017 at 14:03, Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 09:22:53 +0000, Kevin Dixon wrote:
>> > I've had no replies on this issue, so I'm assuming there is no way of
>> > extract a list of known issue by VTK version.
>> > The alternative for me is to export the issue list and go through issue
>> by
>> > issue (or commit by commit) to understand if a particular issue is
>> relevant
>> > to a version and my use of VTK. However, the gitlab issue list has no
>> > apparent way of exporting issues at all (e.g. to XML or CSV).
>> > Can anyone help with exporting a list of known issues - either all
>> issue,
>> > or only those relevant to a particular version of VTK?
>>
>> You can use the Gitlab API to extract issue information in JSON format:
>>
>>     https://gitlab.kitware.com/help/api/issues.md
>>
>> There are multiple Gitlab API libraries out there, but this is the one
>> we've used the most:
>>
>>     https://gitlab.kitware.com/utils/mantis-to-gitlab/blob/maste
>> r/gitlab.py
>>
>> As for the information you're looking for, we haven't been the best
>> about tagging issues and merge requests with milestones which they apply
>> to. There is a task to get the Kitware Robot (@kwrobot) to put
>> milestones on merged MRs and the issues they close, but I haven't gotten
>> there yet. That issue is here:
>>
>>     https://gitlab.kitware.com/utils/rust-ghostflow/issues/20
>>
>> --Ben
>>
>
>
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