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Python toolkit for Rally REST API

Project description

The pyral package enables you to push, pull and otherwise wrangle the data in your Rally subscription using the popular and productive Python language. The pyral package provides a smooth and easy to use veneer on top of the Rally REST Web Services API using JSON.

Getting started

Rally has created a Python package that you can quickly leverage to interact with the data in your subscription via the REST web services API. You can create, read, update, and delete the common artifacts and other entities via the Python toolkit for Rally.

Download

Files are available at the download page .

The git repository is available at https://github.com/RallyTools/RallyRestToolkitForPython

Installation

If you want to pull down the latest release from standard Python package repository (pypi.python.org) and install the package, the easiest way is to use pip, the Python package installation utility.:

pip install pyral

Alternatively, if you’ve got the tar.gz or zip distribution on hand, as long as you’ve satisfied the dependency requirement on the requests package, you can use the setup mechanism. Obtain the requests package and install it according to that package’s directions. Use of requests-2.28.x or better is recommended for use with pyral. The requests package can be found via the Python Package Index site (http://pypi/python.org/index). The most recent release of pyral (1.6.0) has been tested using requests 2.31.0.

Unpack the pyral distribution file (zip or tar.gz) and then install the pyral package.

python setup.py install

Use whatever setup options you need for your particular Python environment.

Sanity Check

Fire up a command line Python interpreter. Attempt to import the relevant packages.

$ python
Python 3.11.5 [other Python interpreter info elided ...]
>> import requests
>> import pyral
>> pyral.__version__
(1, 6, 0)

30 second highlight

Since Python is a very flexible and extensible language, we were able to make access to the object model extremely simple. For example, if you have a a UserStory instance returned by a pyral operation assigned to the name story, the following code iterates over the tasks.

for task in story.Tasks:
   print task.Name

There is no need to make a separate call to fetch all the tasks for the story. When you follow domain model attributes in the Python code, the Python toolkit for Rally REST API machinery automatically loads in the necessary objects for you.

Full Documentation

The complete documentation for the Python toolkit for Rally REST API is in the doc/build/html subdirectory in the repository. The rendered version of this is also available at http://pyral.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Sample code

Common setup code

import sys
from pyral import Rally, rallyWorkset
options = [arg for arg in sys.argv[1:] if arg.startswith('--')]
args    = [arg for arg in sys.argv[1:] if arg not in options]
server, user, password, apikey, workspace, project = rallyWorkset(options)
rally = Rally(server, user, password, apikey=apikey, workspace=workspace, project=project)
Show a TestCase identified by the FormattedID value.

Copy the above boilerplate and the following code fragment and save it in a file named gettc.py

query_criteria = 'FormattedID = "%s"' % args[0]
response = rally.get('TestCase', fetch=True, query=query_criteria)
if response.errors:
    sys.stdout.write("\n".join(errors))
    sys.exit(1)
for testCase in response:  # there should only be one qualifying TestCase
    print "%s %s %s %s" % (testCase.Name, testCase.Type,
                           testCase.DefectStatus, testCase.LastVerdict)
  • Run it by providing the FormattedID value of your targeted TestCase as a command line argument

    python gettc.py TC1184

Get a list of workspaces and projects for your subscription

Copy the above boilerplate and the following code fragment and save it in a file called wksprj.py

workspaces = rally.getWorkspaces()
for wksp in workspaces:
    print "%s %s" % (wksp.oid, wksp.Name)
    projects = rally.getProjects(workspace=wksp.Name)
    for proj in projects:
        print "    %12.12s  %s" % (proj.oid, proj.Name)
  • Run the script

    python wksprj.py

Create a new Defect

Copy the above boilerplate and the following code fragment and save it in a file called crdefect.py

proj = rally.getProject()

# get the first (and hopefully only) user whose DisplayName is 'Sartorious Submitter'
user = rally.getUserInfo(name='Sartorius Submitter').pop(0)

defect_data = { "Project" : proj.ref, "SubmittedBy" : user.ref,
                "Name" : name, "Severity" : severity, "Priority" : priority,
                "State" : "Open", "ScheduleState" : "Defined",
                "Description" : description }
try:
    defect = rally.create('Defect', defect_data)
except Exception, details:
    sys.stderr.write('ERROR: %s \n' % details)
    sys.exit(1)
print "Defect created, ObjectID: %s  FormattedID: %s" % (defect.oid, defect.FormattedID)
  • Run the script

    python crdefect.py <Name> <severity> <priority> <description>

    making sure to provide valid severity and priority values for your workspace

Update an existing Defect

Copy the above boilerplate and the following code fragment and save it in a file called updefect.py .

 defectID, customer, target_date, notes = args[:4]
 # target_date must be in ISO-8601 format "YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ"

 defect_data = { "FormattedID" : defectID,
                 "Customer"    : customer,
                 "TargetDate"  : target_date,
                 "Notes"       : notes
               }
 try:
     defect = rally.update('Defect', defect_data)
 except Exception, details:
     sys.stderr.write('ERROR: %s \n' % details)
     sys.exit(1)

print "Defect %s updated" % defect.FormattedID
  • Run the script

    python updefect.py <Defect FormattedID> <customer> <target_date> <notes text…>

Config Options

The pyral package uses a priority chain of files, environment variables and command line arguments to set the configuration context when an instance of the Rally class is created. See the complete documentation for detailed information on this mechanism. Here’s a brief description of how you can specify a configuration when you create an instance of the Rally class.

Configuration file settings

Config file item

Description

SERVER

Rally server (example rally1.rallydev.com)

USER

Rally subscription UserName value

PASSWORD

password for the Rally subscription UserName

APIKEY

Rally API Key value

WORKSPACE

Rally Workspace

PROJECT

Rally Project

The item names in config files are case sensitive.

Command line options

Command line option

Description

–rallyConfig=<config_file_name>

name of the file with settings for pyral

–config=<config_file_name>

ditto

–conf=<config_file_name>

ditto

–cfg=<config_file_name>

ditto

–rallyUser=<foo>

your Rally UserName

–rallyPassword=<bar>

password associated with the Rally UserName

–apikey=<APIKey>

valid Rally API Key value

–rallyWorkspace=<bar>

Workspace in Rally you want to interact with

–rallyProject=<bar>

Project in Rally you want to interact with

Prerequisites

  • Python 3.9, 3,10 or 3.11 (this package not tested with earlier versions of Python 3.x)

  • The requests package, 2.28.1 or better, requests 2.31.0 or beyond is recommended.

Versions

1.6.0

Eliminated use of six package. Added support for Risk, Objective, KeyResult and CapacityPlan* entities. Fixed bug in restapi.getAllUsers that prevented retrieval of Users beyond the first chunk Explicitly state support for Python 3.9, 3.10, 3.11 and 3.12 Drop any mention of support for versions 3.8 and earlier

1.5.2

Fixed query builder so that multi-condition queries thet include subset or range conditions are constructed correctly. Dropped all code related to ping functionality.

1.5.1

Fixed query builder to accommodate subset criteria (in | !in) and range criteria (between | !between). Dropped mention of Python 3.5 as a supported version in PKG-INFO. Added mention of Python 3.9 as a supported version in PKG-INFO. Excised all mentions of AgileCentral in the docs, replaced by ‘Rally’.

1.5.0

Dropped all support for Python 2.7 constructs. Validated support for Python 3.7 and 3.8. Fixed defect where attachments were not returned from getAttachments method. Fixed defect where the creation or update of a custom PortfolioItem sub-type did not return a valid pyral instance of the sub-type. Fixed defect in returning correct number of items when the start index is specified as an integer. Fixed defect where a feature item could not be added to a Milestones collection Fixed defect in query construction (and results) when a target attribute value contains a ‘&’ character.

1.4.2

Fixed defect in returning RallyRESTResponse when pagesize set to 1

1.4.1

Support for TestFolderStatus attribute in TestFolder. Fixed defect in addCollectionItems

1.4.0

Support for PullRequest entity object (subclassed from Connection).

1.3.2

Allow for initial connection using a workspace name containing chars that need to be urlencoded.

1.3.1

Adjusted getAllowedValues so that custom fields with an allowedValues endpoint get resolved. Disqualifed a group of standard attributes whose allowedValue is of type COLLECTION when retrieving allowed values in SchemaItem.complete(). This is primarily relevant only to attributes defined as Drop Down List or Multi Value Drop Down List. Fixed mechanism of supplying headers dict to Rally instantiation so that the X-RallyIntegration* headers get overwritten with supplied headers (for name, vendor, version) to better identify the origin of the integration. Updated official name to reference Agile Central in setup.py, mention threads keyword arg in the get method in the the interface.rst file.

1.3.0

Introduced automatic multi-threading for Rally.get operation to speed up retrieval of large result sets. Implemented step two of the Pinger deprecation plan, ping=False is the new default. Increased default page size to 500. Maximum useful page size limit is 2000 but 1000 seems to be the sweet spot for multithreading requests. Fixed Rally.getAllUsers so that non subscription admin accounts can see the user list. Updated recommendation for version of requests package.

1.2.4

Fixed handling of projectScopeUp and projectScopeDown keyword arguments for get operation. Fixed Peristable’s __getattr__ method to more properly handle getting the salient item out of a response to a getResourceByOID request when the item retrieved is a PortfolioItem sub-type. Fixed defect in SchemaItemAttribute where self._allowed_values_resolved was not always set. Fixed defect in RallyRestResponse in __repr__ method where on a response that has no qualifying items an attempt is made to get the Results out of the returned response without going through the QueryResult key.

1.2.3

Fixed restapi.py Rally.getAllowedValues method to accommodate custom fields Allow attribute payload for put and post to have a list of pyral.Entity instances as values for an attribute that is of type COLLECTION.

1.2.2

Allow for disambiguating Project amongst name duplications by means of using fully qualified path. Incorporated suggestion on preserving case name of custom PortfolioItem sub-item. Fixed discrepancy of docs versus code on default pagesize, now is actually 200 everywhere. Fix location of download package in GitHub repo.

1.2.1

Added mention that the six package is required. Fixed context setup for proper handling when a user has no default workspace/project settings. Corrected handling of allowedValues for attributes when the single allowedValue is a boolean value. Added an allowedValues.py example script.

1.2.0

Support for Python 3.5.x Begin deprecation sequence for pinging the Rally server before the connection attempt, initially with this version, allow option on instantiation to bypass ping. Added ability to rankAbove, rankBelow, rankToTop, rankToBottom for an Artifact. Fixed defect where user has no default workspace or project.

addAttachment now correctly handles binary file, attachment size limit increased to 50MB to match Agile Central limit. Exception generated when running getAllUsers when credentials are for non Subscription/Workspace Administrator has been fixed. Added ability to work with a single Workspace, which has beneficial performance effect for Subscriptions with a large number of Workspaces. Modified internal attribute handling to limit calls to get attribute’s allowed values to qualifying attribute types. Added examples/updtag.py script.

see the VERSIONS file for information pertaining to older releases

TODO

  • Dynamically construct the Rally schema class hierarchy economically.

License

BSD3-style license. Copyright (c) 2018-2024 Broadcom, Inc., 2015-2018 CA Technologies, 2010-2015 Rally Software Development.

See the LICENSE file provided with the source distribution for full details.

Warranty

None. See the LICENSE file for full text regarding this issue.

Support

The use of this package is on an as-is basis and there is no official support offered by Broadcom. The author of this module periodically checks the GitHub repository issues for this package in the interests of providing defect fixes and small feature enhancements as time permits, but is not obligated to respond or take action. Posts to Stack Overflow (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask?tags=rally) are another avenue to engage others who have some exposure to pyral and might be able to offer useful information.

Author

Additional Credits

  • GitHub for repository hosting services.

  • ReadTheDocs for documentation hosting services.

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