There currently exists no separate reporting mechanism in GNATS from
query-pr. However, the `-q' and `-i' options to
query-pr allow for easy reporting.
For example, a report on the current open Problem Reports in the
database can be obtained using awk with
query-pr -q | awk '{print $3 "/" $1 ": " $4}'
which yields a list of the form
category/gnats-id: state etc...
For example:
sprockets/123: open widgets/456: analyzed etc...
The `-i' option to query-pr yields output delimited by pipes
(`|'). This results in the following:
gnats-id|category|synopsis|confidential|\ severity|priority|responsible|state|class|\ submitter-id|arrival-date|originator|release
A report on Problem Reports in the database that are currently `open' or `analyzed' might resemble the following (the example is split into two lines in order to fit onto the page; it is intended to be typed on one command line):
query-pr -i -s "o|a" | \
awk -F\| '{print $1 " " $2 " " $8 " " $3}'
which yields
gnats-id category state responsible synopsis etc...
For example:
123 sprockets 1 fred The sprockets program gives bad output 456 widgets 2 barney The foo widget doesn't work with 'bar' 789 widgets 1 wilma The 'baz' widget is broken
When you use the `-i' option, `query-pr' outputs the ENUMERATED fields in the database, namely `>Severity:', `>Priority:', `>State:', and `>Class:', as numbers rather than text. In the example above, a `>State:' value of `1' means `open', `2' means `analyzed', and so forth. ENUMERATED fields are output according to the following paradigm:
>Severity: >Priority:
critical 1 high 1
serious 2 medium 2
non-critical 3 low 3
>State: >Class:
open 1 sw-bug 1
analyzed 2 doc-bug 2
suspended 3 support 3
feedback 4 change-request 4
closed 5 mistaken 5
duplicate 6
This makes sorting on these values easy, when combined with sort.
It is left as an exercise for the reader to figure out how to do this.
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