Working with Trello cards in Eclipse

Question

Is it possible to setup Trello as an Eclipse Mylyn task repository? Is there any existing connector or some other way to do it?

Answer 1

This excellent tutorial explains how it may be done by using Web Template Connector along with the Trello REST API.

However, the regex pattern in #19 there isn't totally correct, and causes to some issues being skipped. It should be changed to this:

\"id\"[\x00-\x7F]+?\"idShort\":({Type}[0-9]+)[\x00-\x7F]+?\"name\":\"({Description}[\x00-\x7F]+?)\"[\x00-\x7F]+?\"shortLink\":\"({Id}[\x00-\x7F]+?)\"[\x00-\x7F]+?\"url\"

So that all user's cards will appear in the MyLyn repository.

Answer 2

Correct regexp to tutorial. It supports labels of cards and cyrillic description.

All cards:

\"id\".+?\"idShort\":({Type}[0-9]+).+?(?:\"idLabels\".+?)\"name\":\"({Description}.+?)\",.+?\"shortLink\":\"({Id}.+?)\".+?\"url\"

Cards of your BOARD_ID

\"idBoard\":\"BOARD_ID\".+?\"idShort\":({Type}[0-9]+).+?(?:\"idLabels\".+?)\"name\":\"({Description}.+?)\",.+?\"shortLink\":\"({Id}.+?)\".+?\"url\"

Answer 3

The regular expressions didn't work for me anymore. Instead I did this:

Create a new web template repository:

• Create a new web template repository
• Under additional settings, add the applicationkey and userkey parameter
• Under advanced configuration, add the task url https://trello.com/c/
• Leave the rest empty.

Create a new query:

• Go to the Task List view. Rightclick New -> Query
• Select the web template repository and name it after the board or however you like
• Add another parameter boardid. You can get the board id from https://trello.com/1/members/my?key={{trello_applicationkey}}&token={{trello_userkey}}
• For Query URL use https://api.trello.com/1/boards/${boardid}/cards?fields=name,shortLink&key=${applicationkey}&token=${userkey}
• For Query Pattern use "name":"({Description}.+?)","shortLink":"({Id}.+?)"

Answer 4

The other answers were giving all cards in the board, not just the ones assigned to me. I used the API search with filters to get what I needed.

Create a new web template repository:

• Under additional settings, add the applicationkey, userkey, memberid and boardname parameters
• Under advanced configuration, add the task url https://trello.com/c/
• Leave the rest empty.

Create a new query:

• Query URL:

  https://api.trello.com/1/search?query=member:${memberid}%20board:${boardname}&card_fields=name,shortLink&cards_limit=100&key=${applicationkey}&token=${userkey}

• Query Pattern:

  "name":"({Description}.+?)","shortLink":"({Id}.+?)"

More information in this answer.

Answer 5

I had the error Failed to parse RSS feed: "Invalid XML: Error on line 1: Content is not allowed in prolog.

After days of trying to fix this, I finally found that it was en encoding error.

In the Web Repository Settings under Additional Settings I selected US-ASCII.

I hope to help other people!