Importer for CodeChecker

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. We want to import the results generated from CodeChecker cmd results #3075 into another instance of the CodeChecker server. The formatted of the input file would be json. We will, for now, assume the users are on the same version of Codechecker and Kernel repository.

Rough Description of the scenario:

• User A adds some comments to a specific run in the Codechecker server and marks some of the reports as false positive, confirm, etc.
• User A runs CodeChecker cmd results <run_name> -o json --details and obtains a json file.
• User A sends the thus obtained json to User B
• User B should now be able to import this json into his Codechecker server and see the findings and comments added by User A.

We would be obliged if you could suggest an approach for implementing the functionality and redirect us to the appropriate files. @bulwahn

[jay24rajput]

Thanks a ton @csordasmarton! The issue is resolved. We can obtain a properly formatted json.

Should I create tests for the same in https://github.com/Ericsson/codechecker/tree/master/web/tests/functional. A new folder named export. In the test file, we will add new comments with addComment and change the review status of some bugs with changeReviewStatus methods. But how will we compare the results in this case? Compare review status and comments separately with assetEquals maybe??

[csordasmarton]

Sorry, my bad 😕 We declared the importData function with one parameter which name is export. When thrift generated javascript functions from it, the parameter name will be export which is a reserved keyword. So we need to change the thrift file to this:

bool importData(1: ExportData exportData)
                throws (1: codechecker_api_shared.RequestFailed requestError),

I have also generated a new package from it: 6.37.0-dev4. Please try it out, now it should work.

Next time please always update your branch with your changes, so it will be easier to debug this for me 😊