Some notes on the cli excerpted from my work on a build doc


RTDEBUG² exported as a shell variable (eg export RTDEBUG=3 ) is handy for debugging RT cli tools. That helped me figure out that I should change a 1 to a 0 at 987,66 (line_num, char) in bin/rt to disable use of proxy environment variables so that requests for 127.0.0.1 don't go to squid pointlessly. That makes rt cli work. Then we can use a config file:

### .rtrc - Request Tracker 3.8.x rt cli configuration ###
server http://127.0.0.1:8888
user root
passwd password

##These specify defaults and more than one queue can be given (by adding a query expression)
##queue helpdesk or queue=support
##query Status != resolved and Owner=myaccount


or the RT env vars (both described in bin/rt help usage) and can wrangle RT internals without using WebUI or Perl, as needed.

Output of bin/rt , create -t queue -e:
# Required: Name

id: queue/new
Name:
Description:
CorrespondAddress:
CommentAddress:
InitialPriority:
FinalPriority:
DefaultDueIn:
, giving us this working recipe for programatically creating Queues:
bin/rt create -t queue set name=NewestQ description="a newer still Q than thee", allowing us to declare:


#!/usr/bin/ruby -w

## Example:
## bin/rt create -t queue set name=NewestQ description="a newer still Q than thee"

test_queues = [
{ :qname => 'External', :qdesc => 'External ticket Queue for Rt testenv' },
{ :qname => 'Helpdesk', :qdesc => 'Helpdesk ticket Queue for Rt testenv' },
{ :qname => 'Oversight', :qdesc => 'Oversight ticket Queue for Rt testenv' },
]

test_queues.each { |tq|
`bin/rt create -t queue set name=\"#{tq[:qname]}\" description=\"#{tq[:qdesc]}\"`
}

and we should easily be able to do the same for some sample users, groups. Unfortunately we can't add scrips or templates this way, yet.


² http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/rt/users/61505?do=post_view_threaded

Tags: cli, request tracker, software testing