Pygerrit is a Python library to interact with the Gerrit Code Review system over ssh.

To install pygerrit, simply:

$ pip install pygerrit

Pygerrit runs on Ubuntu 10.4 and Mac OSX 10.8.4 with Python 2.6.x and 2.7.x. Support for other platforms and Python versions is not guaranteed.

To connect to the review server, pygerrit requires the ssh connection parameters (hostname, port, username) to be present in the .ssh/config file for the current user:

Host review
  HostName review.example.net
  Port 29418
  User username

Gerrit offers a stream-events command that is run over ssh, and returns back a stream of events (new change uploaded, change merged, comment added, etc) as JSON text.

This library handles the parsing of the JSON text from the event stream, encapsulating the data in event objects (Python classes), and allowing the client to fetch them from a queue. It also allows users to easily add handling of custom event types, for example if they are running a customised Gerrit installation with non-standard events.

Refer to the example script for a brief example of how the interface works.

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Licensed under The MIT License. Please refer to the LICENSE file for full license details.