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6.1.2. Attachments

The Bugzilla API for creating, changing, and getting the details of attachments.

6.1.2.1. Get Attachment

This allows you to get data about attachments, given a list of bugs and/or attachment IDs. Private attachments will only be returned if you are in the appropriate group or if you are the submitter of the attachment.

Request

To get all current attachments for a bug:

GET /rest/bug/(bug_id)/attachment

To get a specific attachment based on attachment ID:

GET /rest/bug/attachment/(attachment_id)

One of the below must be specified.

name type description
bug_id int Integer bug ID.
attachment_id int Integer attachment ID.

Response

{
   "bugs" : {
      "1345" : [
         { (attachment) },
         { (attachment) }
      ],
      "9874" : [
         { (attachment) },
         { (attachment) }
      ],
   },
   "attachments" : {
      "234" : { (attachment) },
      "123" : { (attachment) },
   }
}

An object containing two elements: bugs and attachments.

The attachments for the bug that you specified in the bug_id argument in input are returned in bugs on output. bugs is a object that has integer bug IDs for keys and the values are arrays of objects as attachments. (Fields for attachments are described below.)

For the attachment that you specified directly in attachment_id, they are returned in attachments on output. This is a object where the attachment ids point directly to objects describing the individual attachment.

The fields for each attachment (where it says (attachment) in the sample response above) are:

name type description
data base64 The raw data of the attachment, encoded as Base64.
size int The length (in bytes) of the attachment.
creation_time datetime The time the attachment was created.
last_change_time datetime The last time the attachment was modified.
id int The numeric ID of the attachment.
bug_id int The numeric ID of the bug that the attachment is attached to.
file_name string The file name of the attachment.
summary string A short string describing the attachment.
content_type string The MIME type of the attachment.
is_private boolean true if the attachment is private (only visible to a certain group called the "insidergroup", false otherwise.
is_obsolete boolean true if the attachment is obsolete, false otherwise.
is_patch boolean true if the attachment is a patch, false otherwise.
creator string The login name of the user that created the attachment.
flags array Array of objects, each containing the information about the flag currently set for each attachment. Each flag object contains items descibed in the Flag object below.

Flag object:

name type description
id int The ID of the flag.
name string The name of the flag.
type_id int The type ID of the flag.
creation_date datetime The timestamp when this flag was originally created.
modification_date datetime The timestamp when the flag was last modified.
status string The current status of the flag such as ?, +, or -.
setter string The login name of the user who created or last modified the flag.
requestee string The login name of the user this flag has been requested to be granted or denied. Note, this field is only returned if a requestee is set.

6.1.2.2. Create Attachment

This allows you to add an attachment to a bug in Bugzilla.

Request

To create attachment on a current bug:

POST /rest/bug/(bug_id)/attachment

{
  "ids" : [ 35 ],
  "is_patch" : true,
  "comment" : "This is a new attachment comment",
  "is_markdown" : true,
  "summary" : "Test Attachment",
  "content_type" : "text/plain",
  "data" : "(Some patch content)",
  "file_name" : "test_attachment.patch",
  "obsoletes" : [],
  "is_private" : false,
  "flags" : [
    {
      "name" : "review",
      "status" : "?",
      "requestee" : "user@bugzilla.org",
      "new" : true
    }
  ]
}

The params to include in the POST body, as well as the returned data format, are the same as below. The bug_id param will be overridden as it it pulled from the URL path.

name type description
ids array The IDs or aliases of bugs that you want to add this attachment to. The same attachment and comment will be added to all these bugs.
data string The content of the attachment. If the content of the attachment is not ASCII text such as application/octet-stream you must encode it in base64 using an appropriate client library such as MIME::Base64 for Perl.
file_name string The "file name" that will be displayed in the UI for this attachment and also downloaded copies will be given.
summary string A short string describing the attachment.
content_type string The MIME type of the attachment, like text/plain or image/png.
comment string A comment to add along with this attachment.
is_patch boolean true if Bugzilla should treat this attachment as a patch. If you specify this, you do not need to specify a content_type. The content_type of the attachment will be forced to text/plain. Defaults to false if not specified.
is_private boolean true if the attachment should be private (restricted to the "insidergroup"), false if the attachment should be public. Defaults to false if not specified.
is_markdown boolean If set to true, the comment has Markdown structures; otherwise, it is normal text.
flags array Flags objects to add to the attachment. The object format is described in the Flag object below.

Flag object:

To create a flag, at least the status and the type_id or name must be provided. An optional requestee can be passed if the flag type is requestable to a specific user.

name type description
name string The name of the flag type.
type_id int The internal flag type ID.
status string The flags new status (i.e. "?", "+", "-" or "X" to clear a flag).
requestee string The login of the requestee if the flag type is requestable to a specific user.

Response

{
  "ids" : [
    "2797"
  ]
}
name type description
ids array Attachment IDs created.

6.1.2.3. Update Attachment

This allows you to update attachment metadata in Bugzilla.

Request

To update attachment metadata on a current attachment:

PUT /rest/bug/attachment/(attachment_id)

{
  "ids" : [ 2796 ],
  "summary" : "Test XML file",
  "comment" : "Changed this from a patch to a XML file",
  "is_markdown" : true,
  "content_type" : "text/xml",
  "is_patch" : 0
}
name type description
attachment_id int Integer attachment ID.
ids array The IDs of the attachments you want to update.
name type description
file_name string The "file name" that will be displayed in the UI for this attachment.
summary string A short string describing the attachment.
comment string An optional comment to add to the attachment's bug.
is_markdown boolean If set to true, the comment has Markdown structures; otherwise, it is normal text.
content_type string The MIME type of the attachment, like text/plain or image/png.
is_patch boolean true if Bugzilla should treat this attachment as a patch. If you specify this, you do not need to specify a content_type. The content_type of the attachment will be forced to text/plain.
is_private boolean true if the attachment should be private (restricted to the "insidergroup"), false if the attachment should be public.
is_obsolete boolean true if the attachment is obsolete, false otherwise.
flags array An array of Flag objects with changes to the flags. The object format is described in the Flag object below.

Flag object:

The following values can be specified. At least the status and one of type_id, id, or name must be specified. If a type_id or name matches a single currently set flag, the flag will be updated unless new is specified.

name type description
name string The name of the flag that will be created or updated.
type_id int The internal flag type ID that will be created or updated. You will need to specify the type_id if more than one flag type of the same name exists.
status string The flags new status (i.e. "?", "+", "-" or "X" to clear a flag).
requestee string The login of the requestee if the flag type is requestable to a specific user.
id int Use ID to specify the flag to be updated. You will need to specify the id if more than one flag is set of the same name.
new boolean Set to true if you specifically want a new flag to be created.

Response

{
  "attachments" : [
    {
      "changes" : {
        "content_type" : {
          "added" : "text/xml",
          "removed" : "text/plain"
        },
        "is_patch" : {
          "added" : "0",
          "removed" : "1"
        },
        "summary" : {
          "added" : "Test XML file",
          "removed" : "test patch"
        }
      },
      "id" : 2796,
      "last_change_time" : "2014-09-29T14:41:53Z"
    }
  ]
}

attachments (array) Change objects with the following items:

name type description
id int The ID of the attachment that was updated.
last_change_time datetime The exact time that this update was done at, for this attachment. If no update was done (that is, no fields had their values changed and no comment was added) then this will instead be the last time the attachment was updated.
changes object

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

  • added: (string) The values that were added to this field. Possibly a comma-and-space-separated list if multiple values were added.
  • removed: (string) The values that were removed from this field.

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