Add enhanced support for extra_data and JSON patching.
Review Request #12251 — Created April 22, 2022 and submitted — Latest diff uploaded
This brings some long-needed support for working with modern
extra_datafunctionality in Review Board.Attempting to modify an
extra_datadictionary now raises an exception.
This is part of the work done to make dictionary fields immutable, since
RBTools doesn't have a concept of simply saving a resource back to the
server (update()calls are required instead). The immutable error
provides handy instructions for setting newextra_datacontent.The big change here, though, is the support for
extra_datapatching.
This was doable before through something like:resource.update(**{'extra_data:json': json.dumps({...})})That obviously was not ideal. Now, callers can simply set the
extra_data_jsonfield to a native dictionary to do a JSON Merge Patch
or setextra_data_json_patchto a list of dictionaries to do a JSON
Patch. RBTools will properly serialize the results to JSON, setting the
correct key in the payload.A
.copy()method also exists to return a copy of the original field
data, without any wrapping. This works for any dictionary level of
extra_data, allowing consumers to create a copy, manipulate it, and
set it as a new full dictionary in a patch request.Between new patching options, a more standard dictionary interface, the
ability to copy the payload, and useful immutable error handling, it
should now be a lot easier to work withextra_datafields.
Unit tests pass on all supported versions of Python.