API lacks easy way to get series information on branches/merge proposals

[dobey]

Currently, if a branch or a review, is targetted to a specific series, there is no direct link to that series, in the branch or branch_merge_proposal APIs. Instead one must do something similar to the following code, to be able to get the information:

        try:
            series_name = branch.bzr_identity.split('/')[1]
        except IndexError:
            series_name = u'trunk'

        series = project.getSeries(name=series_name)

It would be nice if there was a direct series_link on at least branches, if not branch_merge_proposals as well, to be able to easily get that information.

[Aaron Bentley (abentley)]

There is a many-to-one link between series and branches, so would have to be a "linked_series" collection, rather than a link to a single series.

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

In the workaround, I think the "= 'trunk'" isn't really right, and you
need to look for the development focus series?

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Martin