Exports Assembla Tickets to GitHub Issues.

export-tickets.go

// Exports Assembla tickets in XML format to GitHub issues.
// 
// Usage: $ ./export-tickets path/to/tickets.xml repository_name 
//

package main

import (
	"os"
	"fmt"
	"xml"
	"json"
	"http"
	"strings"
	"io/ioutil"
)

// GitHub API endpoint for /repos/:user/:repo/issues
const GH_API = "https://USER:PASS@api.github.com/repos/%s/%s/issues"

// GitHub logins to assign tickets to. The first one is considered the default.
var validAssignees = []string{"LOGIN1", "LOGIN2"}

// A GitHub issue.
type Issue struct {
	Title    string  `json:"title"`
	Body     string  `json:"body"`
	Assignee string  `json:"assignee"`
	Labels   []Label `json:"labels"`
}

type Label struct {
	Name string `json:"name"`
}

// XML tickets from Assembla.
type Tickets struct {
	Ticket []Ticket
}

// The XML ticket from Assembla.
type Ticket struct {
	Summary     string
	Description string
	StatusName  string
	AssignedTo  Assignee
}

// The original assignee.
type Assignee struct {
	Name  string
	Login string
}

// Handles errors.
func checkError(err os.Error) {
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println("Error: ", err.String())
		os.Exit(1)
	}
}

// Checks if the provided assignee exists on GitHub.
func isValidAssignee(assignee string) bool {
	for _, v := range validAssignees {
		if v == assignee {
			return true
		}
	}
	return false
}

// Removes whitespace and newlines.
func trim(str string) string {
	return strings.TrimSpace(strings.Replace(str, "\n", "", -1))
}

// Exports the tickets from the given file name into the given repo.
func exportTickets(file string, repo string) {
	var tickets Tickets

	contents, readErr := ioutil.ReadFile(file)
	checkError(readErr)
	r := strings.NewReader(string(contents))

	unmarshalErr := xml.Unmarshal(r, &tickets)
	checkError(unmarshalErr)

	defaultAssignee := validAssignees[0]
	for _, ticket := range tickets.Ticket {
		summary := trim(ticket.Summary)
		assignee := trim(strings.ToLower(ticket.AssignedTo.Login))
		notes := ""
		if trim(ticket.StatusName) == "Fixed" {
			fmt.Printf("=====> Skipping fixed ticket: '%s'\n", summary)
			continue
		}

		if isValidAssignee(assignee) == false {
			notes = fmt.Sprintf("(reassigned to '%s' from '%s')", defaultAssignee, assignee)
			ticket.AssignedTo.Login = defaultAssignee
		}

		fmt.Printf("=====> Posting pending ticket: '%s' %s\n", summary, notes)
		postIssue(ticket, repo)
		//break
	}
}

// Encodes the given ticket into an issue in JSON.
func encodeTicket(ticket Ticket) string {
	issue := Issue{
		trim(ticket.Summary),
		trim(ticket.Description),
		trim(ticket.AssignedTo.Login),
		[]Label{{"Assembla"}},
	}

	b, jsonErr := json.Marshal(issue)
	checkError(jsonErr)
	return string(b)
}

// Posts the new JSON-encoded issue to GitHub using the given ticket.
func postIssue(ticket Ticket, repo string) {
	bodyType := "application/json"
	jsonIssue := strings.NewReader(encodeTicket(ticket))
	url := fmt.Sprintf(GH_API, repo)

	resp, respErr := http.Post(url, bodyType, jsonIssue)
	checkError(respErr)

	fmt.Println(resp.Status)
	http.DumpResponse(resp, true)
}

func main() {
	if len(os.Args) == 3 {
		exportTickets(os.Args[1], os.Args[2])
	}
	//exportTickets("tickets/menta.xml", "menta")
}

Ernesto do you have an updated version of this? Some packages have changed. I tried to fix. It compiles without errors but does not work.

I don't, sorry. It was useful to me 3 years ago as a fire and forget script. A quick fix might be to use an older version of Go ;)