Command Line Tool

1. Clone python-gerritclient repository: git clone https://github.com/tivaliy/python-gerritclient.git.

2. Configure settings.yaml file (in gerritclient/settings.yaml) to meet your requirements.

   url: http://review.example.com
   auth_type: basic
   username: admin
   password: "1234567890aaWmmflSl+ZlOPs23Dffn"

   • url can be specified according to the following format <scheme>://<host>:<port>, e.g. https://review.openstack.org

   • auth_type specifies HTTP authentication scheme (basic or digest), can be omitted, then all requests will be anonymous with respective restrictions

   • username and password - user credentials from Gerrit system (Settings → HTTP Password)

3. Create isolated Python environment virtualenv gerritclient_venv and activate it source gerritclient_venv/bin/activate.

4. Install python-gerritclient with all necessary dependencies: pip install python-gerritclient/..

5. (Optional) Add gerrit command bash completion gerrit complete | sudo tee /etc/bash_completion.d/gc.bash_completion > /dev/null

6. Run gerrit command with required options, e.g. gerrit plugin list. To see all available commands run gerrit --help.

Library

1. Clone python-gerritclient repository: git clone https://github.com/tivaliy/python-gerritclient.git.

2. Create isolated Python environment virtualenv gerritclient_venv and activate it source gerritclient_venv/bin/activate.

3. Install python-gerritclient with all necessary dependencies: pip install python-gerritclient/..

from gerritclient import client

connection = client.connect("review.openstack.org", auth_type="digest" username="user-name", password="password")
group_client = client.get_client('group', connection=connection)
members = group_client.get_group_members('swift-core')  # or get_group_members(24)
print(', '.join(member['name'] for member in members))

Output result: Alistair Coles, Christian Schwede, Clay Gerrard, Darrell Bishop, David Goetz, Greg Lange, Janie Richling, John Dickinson, Kota Tsuyuzaki, Mahati Chamarthy, Matthew Oliver, Michael Barton, Pete Zaitcev, Samuel Merritt, Thiago da Silva, Tim Burke