My organization is tracking multiple Scrum projects in VersionOne. Each week, we use the Release Forecasting report for each project to create a management dashboard that indicates the health and expected completion date of each project. I would like to automate this. Do any of the VersionOne APIs allow for the execution of this report and retrieving the image that is generated?
There is not an endpoint specific to Release Forecasting. Nor is there an endpoint to generate the image. However, you can get to the underlying data via the existing API endpoints. For reporting, I recommend query.v1. The closest example is the query for burndown data. You would need to take Scope as the focus of the query, not Timebox.
You might also take a look at VersionOne's Reporting and Analytics. While that is not a coding or API way to get the reports, it might still automate the needs you have.
I was able to automate the retrieval of this report, but not through the V1 API. Through careful use of Fiddler and a C# script using WebClient to execute POST requests, it was possible. The resulting code is pretty fragile, though, since it isn't using the API.
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I work devops for a fairly large company that is in process of transitioning to microservices. This is a new area for most people involved and some of the governing requests seem like bad practice to me but I don't have the expertise to convince otherwise.
The request is to generate a report before deploying that would list any new api/events (Kafka is our messaging service) in a microservice.
The path that's being recommended is for devs to follow a style guide and then scrape the source code during CI/CD pipeline to generate a report that can be compared to previous reports and identify any new apis.
This seems backwards and unsustainable but I've been unable to find another solution that would satisfy their requests. I've recommended deploying to dev first, then using a tracing tool to identify any api changes, or event subscriptions, but they insist on having the report before deploying.
I'm hoping for any advice on best practice to accomplish this.
Tracing and detecting version changes is definitely over engineering. Whats simpler like #zenwraight has mentioned, is to version your APIs. While tracing through services to explore the different versions and schema could be a potential solution, it requires a lot more investment upfront and if thats not the bread and butter of the company, I would rather use a vendor product that might support something like this.
If discovery is a mechanism that is needed, I would recommend something that publishes internal API docs using a tool like Swagger so that you can search if there's an API you can consume.
And finally to support moving to different versions, I would recommend having an API onboarding process for the services so that teams can notify other teams that are using specific versions their services are coming to the end of their lifecycle and they will need to migrate to newer ones.
I see that Sonarqube provides an Webservice API to get all issues and I will load this data in to a database for analysis. Then, I wish to have my reporting database in sync with the changes happening in the system. Do we have a Webservice API that captures change data?
Overall, I want reporting DB to be in sync with the system.
The createdAfter parameter of the issues search web service will get you new issues, but there's no analogous updatedAfter parameter. Note that by only looking at added issues, you'll overlook issues that are closed in a new analysis.
I need to generate custom reports using Sonar sql server database data. The structure of the database is quite confusing me. How can I get below details of my project?
LoC(lines of code)
Rule Compliance %
Comment %
Public Documented API %
Security Violations
Violations (excluding Info)
Duplicated Line %
Once I get these details how can I stucture my report because root data is having many childs.
I think you probably really want to use the web services to extract data, rather than reading from the database. See http://docs.codehaus.org/display/SONAR/Web+Services for documentation.
I don't recommend to directly request database because it's not considered as an API. It deeply evolves over time.
There are currently two reporting plugins that generate PDF :
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/SONAR/Sonar+PDF+Plugin (open-source + commercial edition)
http://www.sonarsource.com/products/plugins/reporting/report/ (commercial)
If you want to generate your own report, then you should implement a plugin or request web services from a dedicated application.
My company needs to migrate data from a Taleo system to a new HR system.
A little research suggests that traditional ETL may not work against the Taleo cloud based system, but I don't know enough about the setup and am trying to learn.
Does anyone have experience migrating HR data from Taleo to another system, and, if so, how did you do it, and was traditional ETL an option?
Thanks
How you access Taleo depends as much on your platform as theirs.
Example: I'm using Windows:
not sure if this is my mistake ~~ vs2010 Add Service Reference fails
Taleo has just released a new version that as has killed a number of companies temporarily.*
Whether your ETL is one time or continous, Taleo provides a .PDF version of their API that works as follows for employee records (I'm only grabbing their employee records). Other records appear to use the same paradigm.
Employee records have two types of fields: fixed and user defined. The fixed fields which I work with in c# are like simple properties of a class and can be accessed with standard .name notation such as taleoItem.ManagerId. The user defined names are in list of "beans" ... for each bean, one looks first at its name ( *foreach (var taleoItem in taleoEmployeeBean.flexValues) ... if (taleoItem.fieldName == "Social Club Member") { ... ). * currently I'm getting zero of the 50+ flexbeans that I normally get and two flexbeans that I've never before seen. as can be expected, until Taleo fixes this breakage, all that I can to is twiddle my thumbs
When Taleo works properly, retrieving data generally works like this.
access a fixed url to get a url for your company;
authenticate via the url retrieved from step 1 to get a session token.
use the session token from step 2 to invoke the various Taleo API methods.
Warning: the Taleo API has documentation errors. Also, the test cases will not necessarily work.
I'm not familiar with Taleo, but according to their website they have features that allow integration via "XML, Web Services, reusable components, and standard APIs". There are many ETL tools on the market that can interface with web services as a source, or you could optionally write your own.
Taleo provides a PDF which described all the calls that can be made. Basically Taleo uses SOAP as web-service for accessing their data.
For a detailed description visit Taleo Integration in Drupal
I want a real and honest opinion what do you think of Google Visualization API?
Is it reliable to use becasue when i was reading the documentation i noticed that there are alot of issues and defects to overcome and can i use it to retrieve data from mysql database.
Thank you.
I am currently evaluating it. As compared to other javascript data visualization frameworks, i think it has a lot going for it:
dynamic loading is built-in
diverse, many things to choose from.
looks really great!
framework mostly takes care of picking whatever implementation fits the current browser
service based, you don't need to download anything in advance
unified data source: just create one data table, and have multiple visalizations draw from that data.
As a disadvantage, I'd like to mention security. I mean, because it's all service based, it is not so transparent what happens when you pass data into these API calls. And as far as I know, the API is free, but not open source, so I can't really check what is going on behind the covers.
I think the Google visualization API really shines if you want to very quickly whip up a visualization gadget for use in a blog or so, and you are not interested in deploying all kinds of plugins and libraries (for eaxmple, with jQuery based frameworks, you need may need to manage multitple javascript libraries that work together to deliver the goods). If on the other hand you are creating an application that you want to sell, you might want to keep more control over what components you are using, and I would probably consider using something like Flot
But like I said, I am only evaluation atm, I am not using this in production.
Works really great for me. Can be customized fairly easily. Haven't seen any scaling issues. No data is exposed so security should not be an issue. - Arunabh Das
One point I want to add here is that, Google Visualization API cannot be downloaded, its not available for offline usage. So application which is going to use it must be always connected to internet, otherwise I think it wont be able to render charts. Due
to this limitation, this API cannot be used in some applications for which internet connection is not available.
I am currently working on a web based application that will have the Google Visualization API added to it and from the perspective of a developer the Google Visualization API is very limited in what you can do with each individual Chart and if I had a choice I would probably look at dojox charting just because of the extra flexibility that the framework gives you.
If you are doing any kind of large web application that will use charting extensively then I would not recommend the Google Visualizations API it does not have enough flexibility for a large web application.
I am using Google Visualization API and I want to stress that they still won't let you download it, which means if their servers are down, your app will be down if you depend on it. I have been using it for about 4 months, and they have crashed once me once so I'd say they pretty reliable and their documentation is really nice.