Webtools/BuildAPI

This is a rough requirements doc for bug 487036 (with further detail in bug 625417, duped).

The goal is to build a RESTian API against the buildbot database.

Constructicon

Constructicon is a project to create an API against the buildbot db. The purpose is to replace all those scripts that scrape the builds ftp server.

Related bugs

• bug 487036 is the main bug
• bug 624417 is duped but has useful info

Calls needed

Changeset by buildid

Summary

• Get changeset for buildid
• Get changeset for buildid and regression range (not sure how this differs)

Buildids by date

Summary

• Get buildids for date and optional repo

URL

GET on [product]/nightlies/[date]/[optional repo] returns JSON containing builds from that date for a repo or all repos if not specified, ids, links to download on ftp, etc

Questions: what's a repo? is this valid for anything other than nightlies?

Latest build

Summary

• Get latest build for product or repo