At the moment this is a bit of a junk draw collecting notes on programmatically interacting with GitTrac

{section: Bulk changing target versions}

A script is in progress.  See #1443.

{section: General ticket editing}

(This section is based on Matt Farrellee's email "scripting gittrac & unassigned resolved tickets".)

First some constants:
{code}
# Our site
SITE=http://condor-wiki.cs.wisc.edu/index.cgi
# COOKIE_FILE can be just about any path you can write to
COOKIE_FILE=$HOME/my-cookies
# TICKET is the ticket number you want to work on
TICKET=1337
{endcode}

First, login is a must. you need a cookie to access functions such as tktedit. to get a login cookie use:

{code}
curl -c $COOKIE_FILE -d u=$USER -d "p=$PASS" -d in= http://$SITE/login
{endcode}

second, once you have a cookie, it is necessary to get a CSRF secret, which gittrac uses to avoid cross-site scripting attacks. to get one use:

{code}
curl -b $COOKIE_FILE "http://$SITE/tktedit?tn=$TICKET" 2>&1 | \
  grep 'type="hidden"' | grep -v -e 'name="tn"' -e 'name="le"'
{endcode}

the above two steps give you all the information you need to start editing tickets without the web UI.

to actually perform an edit use this command:

{code}
curl -b $COOKIE_FILE -d tn=$TICKET -d le=0 -d submit= -d \
  "$CSRF_NAME=$CSRF_VALUE" -d "$FIELD" http://$SITE/tktedit
{endcode}

CSRF_NAME is from the previous output, as well as CSRF_VALUE.

The last parameter is FIELD, which is always of the form X=Y where X is a field name and Y is the new value. field names are:

|*CGI*|*Database*| |
|*Field*|*Field*|*Meaning* |
| y|type       |Type|
| s|status     |Status|
| d|derivedfrom|Parent ticket|
| v|version    |Earliest known version with problem|
| a|assignedto |Assigned to|
| e|severity   |Target version for fix|
| p|priority   |Priority|
| m|subsystem  |Subsystem|
| w|owner      |Submitter|
| t|title      |Title/Summary|
| c|description|Long description|
| r|remarks    |Long remarks|
| n|contact    |?|
|x1|extra1     |Associated rust ticket|
|x2|extra2     |Customer Group|
|x3|extra3     |Visibility (Public/Private)|
|x4|extra4     |Notify (email list) |
|x5|extra5     |Due Date|