Launchpad itself

drop bug_task.title from the LP API

Bug #274537 reported by Markus Korn
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

As you can see in the attached example a bug_task title is different than the bug.title although the api-doc says:
   """ bug_task: [...] title (read-only) The title of the bug related to this bugtask """
This additional bug-id and bug_target_name in bugtask.title does not make any sense, at least to me.

Markus

In [10]: b = launchpad.bugs[150887]

In [11]: b.title
Out[11]: u"RFE: add 'atom'-feed output format"

In [12]: b.bug_tasks[0].title
Out[12]: u'Bug #150887 in bughelper (Ubuntu): "RFE: add \'atom\'-feed output format"'

Tags: api lp-bugs
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Björn Tillenius (bjornt) wrote : Re: [Bug 274537] [NEW] launchpad api: diffenrent result of bug.title and bug.bug_tasks[0].title

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 08:06:31PM -0000, Markus Korn wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> As you can see in the attached example a bug_task title is different
> than the bug.title although the api-doc says:
> """ bug_task: [...] title (read-only) The title of the bug related to this bugtask """
> This additional bug-id and bug_target_name in bugtask.title does not
> make any sense, at least to me.

Right. bugtask.title shouldn't actually be there. It doesn't make sense.
I don't think we use it internally, and I think it should be removed.

    status triaged
    subscribe bjornt

Changed in malone:
status: New → Triaged
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Eleanor Berger (intellectronica) wrote : Re: launchpad api: diffenrent result of bug.title and bug.bug_tasks[0].title

The advantage of having BugTask.title is that you can use it without fetching the bug itself.

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote :

We're overhauling the API's to provide related data more efficiently, at which point the optimisation to not get the bug at all will be effectively irrelevant; I am going to repurpose this to say that we should drop the attribute.

Changed in launchpad:
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
status: Won't Fix → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
summary: - launchpad api: diffenrent result of bug.title and bug.bug_tasks[0].title
+ drop bug_task.title from the LP API
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