It doesn't say this explicitly in the docs (or at least I didn't notice it!). It seems to be the case that empty parameters are ignored. This seems to be a desirable behavior, as it makes fogbugz clients simpler to write.
i.e., sCategory and sPersonAssignedTo in this example:
http://spolsky/api.asp?sArea=&cmd=edit&sCategory=
&token=jkqn4hqh5ha4n6o8udntev9e2gtvc2&sProject=Inbox
&ixBug=164&sPersonAssignedTo=
As an example of how it makes code easier to write, consider this code which encodes a dictionary of parameters. It's not hard to iterate through the dictionary and remove zero-length entries, but it's nice not to have to do so.
#-------------------------------------------------- edit item
resp=fb.sendit('%s/%s%s'%(admin_login[0],api_url,urllib.urlencode({
'token' : tok,
'cmd' : 'edit',
'ixBug' : case,
'sProject' : opts.p,
'sArea' : opts.a,
'sCategory' : opts.c,
'sPersonAssignedTo' : opts.P,
'sTitle' : title,
})))
Can somebody confirm or deny, and update the API doc accordingly?
http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/docs/70/topics/advanced/API.html
