What version are you running?
2.0.15
What's the URL of the page this enhancement relates to, if any?
http://demo.reviewboard.org/api/review-requests/
Describe the enhancement and the motivation for it.
Currently if I query review requests either via review_requests or review_requests/<review_request_id> Web API resource, depends_on data appears in the response like this:
"depends_on": [ {
"href": "http://adsrv2/reviewboard/api/review-requests/51/",
"method": "GET",
"title": "blah-blah-blah"
}],
If I want to query a review request's depends_on ids, I can:
a) Implement a hack, and use substring on the href field. This is not only unelegant, but also violates a principle stated in the first chapter of the Web API documentation (https://www.reviewboard.org/docs/manual/2.0/webapi/2.0/overview/#resource-urls).
b) Launch another GET request using the href field, and get the id from the response. Suppose my review requests has got two dozen depends_on references, I will have to do two dozen separate calls to get a couple of characters worth of result per response payload. Not really elegant, nor efficient.
There should be an id field within every depends_on element. Example:
"depends_on": [ {
"id": "51",
"href": "http://adsrv2/reviewboard/api/review-requests/51/",
"method": "GET",
"title": "blah-blah-blah"
}],
What operating system are you using? What browser?
Windows 7
Firefox
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