Is it possible to access Charisma programmatically?

Hi, Patrick!

Charisma has REST API, but it's not documented yet.

Here is sample java code for posting issue into charisma. It uses jakarta http client.

public class REST_Test extends TestCase { 
     public static String local = "http://localhost:8080/charisma"; 
     public static String teamsys = "http://teamsys.labs.intellij.net/teamsys"; 
     public static String login = "/rest/user/login";   public static String issue = "XX-1"; 
     public static String getissue = "/rest/issue/" + REST_Test.issue;  
     public static String postissue = "/rest/issue/";  
     public static String charisma = REST_Test.local;  
    
     public void test_loginAndGet() throws Exception {    
          HttpClient c = new HttpClient();    
          this.login(c);    
          this.getissue(c);  
     }  
    
     public void test_loginAndPost() throws Exception {    
          HttpClient c = new HttpClient();    
          this.login(c);    
          this.postissue(c);  
     }  

     public void login(HttpClient c) {    
          try {      
               PostMethod p = new PostMethod(REST_Test.charisma + REST_Test.login);      
               p.addParameter("login", "admin");      
               p.addParameter("password", "admin");      
               c.executeMethod(p);      
               System.out.println(p.getResponseBodyAsString());      
               Assert.assertEquals(p.getStatusCode(), 200);      
               Assert.assertTrue(p.getResponseBodyAsString().indexOf("ok") > 0);    
          } catch (Exception e) {      
               throw new RuntimeException(e);    
          }  
     }  

     public void getissue(HttpClient c) {    
          try {      
               GetMethod g = new GetMethod(REST_Test.charisma + REST_Test.getissue);      
               c.executeMethod(g);      
               System.out.println(g.getResponseBodyAsString());      
               Assert.assertTrue(g.getStatusCode() == 200);      
               Assert.assertTrue(g.getResponseBodyAsString().indexOf(REST_Test.issue) > 0);    
          } catch (Exception e) {      
               throw new RuntimeException(e);    
          }  
     }  

     public void postissue(HttpClient c) {    
          try {      
               PostMethod p = new PostMethod(REST_Test.charisma + REST_Test.postissue);      
               p.addParameter("project", "XX");      
               p.addParameter("summary", "testsummary");      
               c.executeMethod(p);      
               System.out.println(p.getResponseBodyAsString());      
               Assert.assertEquals(p.getStatusCode(), 200);      
               Assert.assertTrue(p.getResponseBodyAsString().indexOf("testsummary") > 0);    
          } catch (Exception e) {      
               throw new RuntimeException(e);    
          }  
     }
}

Hi Vadim

Cool thanks for the example. I will have to have a play with that :-)

Regards

Patrick

When using the REST are developers posting to their own instance of YouTrack or are they using the JetBrains Instance ?

Hi again,

Url for get Issue by ID:

http://localhost:8181/youtrack/rest/issue/byid/XX-1

Now, I'm still looking for how to filter issues.

Greets

It depends on URL parameter of PostMethod constructor. If it points to developers own instance of YouTrack it will post an issue to her own tracker, if it points to JetBrains instance it will post to our tracker.

Get issues by query

http://localhost:8181/youtrack/rest/project/issues/XX?filter=<query here>

Hello Hans,

works for me - http://localhost:8081/rest/project/issues/YP?filter=state:%20Open

I think you are not removing "youtrack" from the Maxim's example:

- looks like it's the virtual directory where he has installed YouTrack (instead of in the root as I did, and probably you too). It also took me a while to figure this out :-)

Hope that helps.

Alexey

my 2 cents: for non-Java implementations, you have to keep in mind that you should reuse the cookie returned by login POST in the following requests. See more details here.