Question

I need to write a query to extract from Rally the user stories (HierarchicalRequirement) with a given value for a custom field and release name, ordering them by their iteration end-date first and user story rank as second parameter, in a Java application.

I can write the working query itself, but the order condition on the iteration end date doesnt work *the condition on the rank is straightforward: “Rank desc”)

To order by iteration end date I passed to the “order” parameter of the SOAP API the string “Iteration.EndDate desc” but it doesnt work.

What’s wrong with this?

Answer 1

I’m not sure how to do this with SOAP but with the REST api it is straightforward:
http://developer.rallydev.com/help/java-toolkit-rally-rest-api

 RallyRestApi restApi = new RallyRestApi(new URI("https://rally1.rallydev.com"), 
    "[e-mail]", "password");

 QueryRequest stories = new QueryRequest("hierarchicalrequirement");
 stories.setFetch(new Fetch("FormattedID", "Name", "ScheduleState"));
 stories.setOrder("Iteration.EndDate DESC,Rank DESC");

 QueryResponse queryResponse = restApi.query(stories);
 if (queryResponse.wasSuccessful()) {
     for (JsonElement result : queryResponse.getResults()) {
         JsonObject story = result.getAsJsonObject();
         System.out.println(String.format("\t%s - %s: ScheduleState=%s",
             story.get("FormattedID").getAsString(),
             story.get("Name").getAsString(),
             story.get("ScheduleState").getAsString()));
     }
 }