Creating a Review with web services

Question

We're working on a process to automatically create and assign reviews to developers using the web services interface.

I've gotten as far as creating a very basic review using the "createReview", and "updateReview" methods on the web services.

I can't seem to find the functionality in the services to assign participants as the author, and reviewers. I thought that maybe that the ReviewAccessSpec parameter would do it, but that seems to only define what roles have access to the review, not who would be in each role.

Does this functionality exist in the services?

Thanks,

Scott

slambeth · Answer

Here is our code thus far:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; private void createReview(String Auther) {&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;try {&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;//connect to service&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;m_proxy = new CodeCollaboratorProxy();&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;m_proxy.setEndpoint("http://localhost:88/services/CodeCollaborator_7001?wsdl");&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;String ticket = m_proxy.getLoginTicket("myuserid", "mypassword");&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;System.out.println(ticket);&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;javax.xml.rpc.Stub stub = (javax.xml.rpc.Stub)m_proxy.getCodeCollaborator();&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;//setup basic auth&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;stub._setProperty(javax.xml.rpc.Stub.USERNAME_PROPERTY, "myuserid");&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;stub._setProperty(javax.xml.rpc.Stub.PASSWORD_PROPERTY, ticket);&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;//create review&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;int reviewID = m_proxy.createReview(Author);&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;//update review with details&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Calendar deadline = null;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;DisplayChangeListAsSpec displayChangeListAs = null;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;ReviewAccessSpec accessibleBy = null;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;String templateName = null;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;String title = null;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;m_proxy.updateReview(reviewID, title, null, deadline, displayChangeListAs, accessibleBy, templateName);&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;} catch (ServerNotInitializedException e) {&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;// TODO Auto-generated catch block&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;e.printStackTrace();&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;} catch (NotAuthorizedException e) {&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;// TODO Auto-generated catch block&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;e.printStackTrace();&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;} catch (ServiceException e) {&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;// TODO Auto-generated catch block&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;e.printStackTrace();&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;} catch (RemoteException e) {&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;// TODO Auto-generated catch block&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;e.printStackTrace();&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;}

rpaterson · Answer

Hello Scott,I'm sorry, this functionality does not exist in our web services API yet. &nbsp;You're going to have to script our command-line client instead. &nbsp;See&nbsp;http://support.smartbear.com/viewarticle/25602/&nbsp;and particularly&nbsp;http://support.smartbear.com/viewarticle/25563/Regards,Roy

slambeth · Answer

Okay... that'll work, I'll just drop exec commands from java

lkremer · Answer

Same issue here.We'd like to add authors, reviewers and perforce changelists with the web service, but it is not implemented. Why? Just creating a new review is just one click, it is not worth doing programatically via the webservice.Adding author, reviewers, uploading changelist via the web service would be the real deal as this is the more complex part of the review creation.&nbsp;Creating the just review via the &nbsp;web service(which is easy to debug, etc.) and doing everything with calling ccollab... Simply not worth it.&nbsp;And the ccollab.exe starts rather slow. Adds extra seconds to the whole operation.Suggestions?

lkremer · Answer

Anybody out there?

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