From c5fcffdcf6944eecc8fac0582ab938961eb987a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@drexel.edu>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:01:45 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] "be comment --xml" now translates comment uuids to alt_ids.

---
 becommands/comment.py | 16 +++++++++++-----
 libbe/comment.py      |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/becommands/comment.py b/becommands/comment.py
index f350291..1e6ecd4 100644
--- a/becommands/comment.py
+++ b/becommands/comment.py
@@ -122,15 +122,21 @@ def execute(args, test=False):
             raise comment.InvalidXML(
                 comment_list, "root element must be <bug> or <comment-list>")
         new_comments = []
-        uuids = [c.uuid for c in bug.comment_root.traverse()] # unique uuid check should be unique alt_id check
+        ids = []
+        for c in bug.comment_root.traverse():
+            ids.append(c.uuid)
+            if c.alt_id != None:
+                ids.append(c.alt_id)
         for child in comment_list.getchildren():
             if child.tag == "comment":
                 new = comment.Comment(bug)
                 new.from_xml(ElementTree.tostring(child))
-                if new.uuid in uuids:
+                if new.alt_id in ids:
                     raise cmdutil.UserError(
-                        "Clashing comment uuids: %s" % new.uuid)
-                uuids.append(new.uuid)
+                        "Clashing comment alt_id: %s" % new.alt_id)
+                ids.append(new.uuid)
+                if new.alt_id != None:
+                    ids.append(new.alt_id)
                 if new.in_reply_to == None:
                     new.in_reply_to = parent.uuid
                 new_comments.append(new)
@@ -149,7 +155,7 @@ def get_parser():
     parser.add_option("-c", "--content-type", metavar="MIME", dest="content_type",
                       help="Set comment content-type (e.g. text/plain)", default=None)
     parser.add_option("-x", "--xml", action="store_true", default=False,
-                      dest='XML', help="Use COMMENT to specify an XML comment description rather than the comment body.  The root XML element should be either <bug> or <comment-list> with one or more <comment> children.  The syntax for the <comment> elements should match that generated by 'be show --xml COMMENT-ID'.  Unrecognized tags are ignored.  Missing tags are left at the default value (e.g. <content-type>) or auto-generated (e.g <uuid>).  An exception is raised if <uuid> conflicts with an existing comment.") # Are comment UUIDs global? no.  should match on alt_id anyway...
+                      dest='XML', help="Use COMMENT to specify an XML comment description rather than the comment body.  The root XML element should be either <bug> or <comment-list> with one or more <comment> children.  The syntax for the <comment> elements should match that generated by 'be show --xml COMMENT-ID'.  Unrecognized tags are ignored.  Missing tags are left at the default value.  The comment UUIDs are always auto-generated, so if you set a <uuid> field, but no <alt-id> field, your <uuid> will be used as the comment's <alt-id>.  An exception is raised if <alt-id> conflicts with an existing comment.")
     return parser
 
 longhelp="""
diff --git a/libbe/comment.py b/libbe/comment.py
index f573cea..d4d47a8 100644
--- a/libbe/comment.py
+++ b/libbe/comment.py
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ class Comment(Tree, settings_object.SavedSettingsObject):
             elif verbose == True:
                 print >> sys.stderr, "Ignoring unknown tag %s in %s" \
                     % (child.tag, comment.tag)
-        if self.alt_id == None and uuid != None:
+        if self.alt_id == None and uuid not in [None, self.uuid]:
             self.alt_id = uuid
 
     def string(self, indent=0, shortname=None):
-- 
2.26.2