Re: Build Results window feature request
Re: Build Results window feature request
- Subject: Re: Build Results window feature request
- From: Greg Guerin <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:51:57 -0700
Laurence Harris wrote:
>Any bug reporter application would have to integrate with
>Apple's Radar system, so no one can just go off and write such a
>beast on his own. You'd need Apple's help and cooperation, and I
>suspect their attitude would be that they'd write their own before
>they'd spend time and resources helping you write one. Plus, Apple
>could well have reservations about letting anyone outside Apple have
>any access to their database.
Why would it have to integrate directly with Apple's radar database?
Most of the problem would be solved by automating the tedious parts of the
process: the repetitive manual inclusion of information already known. You
do that now in a web browser, so the main thing automation can do is scrape
HTML and post forms, basically emulating the browser that takes manual data
now. Yes, that makes it vulnerable when Apple changes the ADC website.
However, web-scraping and form-posting doesn't require access to the radar
database. It doesn't even need Apple's help and cooperation, though it's
probably a good idea not to piss 'em off.
And does it really have to be perfect? I doubt it.
It just has to eliminate most of the tedious parts.
Oh yeah, and not hammer Apple's servers.
>Just my $0.02, though. Someone could be halfway done writing one even
>as we speak for all I know. ;-)
I may have to dig out that old web-scraping and form-posting engine I wrote
a few years ago. It worked well enough to automate most of the process of
buying baseball tickets on-line, at least until CAPTCHAS and other things
undermined its viability.
Or maybe reuse the architecture and re-implement it using curl:
curl -L -s \
https://bugreport.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/RadarWeb.woa \
| grep -F '<form
</form
<input'
Or maybe I should take another route entirely, such as using webkit to make
a specialized browser-like app, dedicated to eliminating the tedious
interactions with bugreporter.
And how to prioritize my copious spare time.
Decisions, decisions...
-- GG
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