Launchpad API "person" object can't get complete list of affected-by bugs

[Alistair Buxton]

I am trying to get a list of every bug that affects me (as set on the top of the bug's page) using the LP API.

I can do me.searchTasks(affected_user=me) but this only returns bugs which I reported (and probably bugs that I am linked to in other ways, if I had any) - and which also affect me. That misses out a lot of bugs.

Test case attached. 863745 shows in results, because I reported it. 863038 does not.

[Alistair Buxton (a-j-buxton)]

Background:

I'm trying to improve update-manager launchpad integration so that changelogs, in addition to linking LP# bugs, also list whether the bug affects you. I realise that could be an expensive operation, and that is probably the reason this API call did not work the way I expected it to. But I was asked to report this, so I have.

It has also been suggested that rather than fetching the whole list of bugs, a new API call is created which takes a list of bugs and returns which ones affect the user.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

You need to search the global bug collection for that, not your bugs.

[Данило Шеган (danilo)]

I am getting timeouts consistently trying to load https://bugs.launchpad.net/~a-j-buxton/+affectingbugs (eg. OOPS-2104BB52) - to be able to compare the web UI with the API output. If one is wrong, then it's likely that the other is too.

[Данило Шеган (danilo)]

Martin filed the timeout bug earlier (bug 868021)