attachment.is_patch is always None

[Brian Murray]

1) 166 of main
2)
bug = Bug(target)

if bug.attachments:
    for attachment in bug.attachments:
        print attachment.is_patch

Using bug 50169 as an example - attachment.is_patch is None for both attachments however one is flagged as a patch. Looking at html_bug.py it doesn't look like there is anything in the attachment parser that sets is_patch.

[Markus Korn (thekorn)]

This is_patch property of an attachment is supposed to be a kind of placeholder. The problem is that the main pages of a bugreport in html and text mode does not provide information about whether an attachment is a patch or not. The only way to find out about it is to check the checkbox on pages like [0].
I will try to fix this by adding a function for the html mode which parses the +edit page on request. this can't be fixed in text mode as the +text view does not provide the necessary data.

[0] https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/50169/attachments/13180

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This information is also obtainable through the API via the type attribute of a bug_attachment.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I'm setting this to wishlist since it is a missing feature from python-launchpad-bugs and I've been using the API to gather this type of information.