convenience method for determining Required fields on artifact?

[mstieber]

It would be useful to have a convenience method for an artifact to disclose its Field-specific attribute definitions, especially for 'Required'.

[dawsmith8]

Hi Mike - I think this might be worth some other convenience methods, but for now wanted to note a way to get at the Required attribute on a field as an example:

fields = @rally.get_fields_for("defect")
puts "values -#{fields["State"].rally_object.keys}"  #gives you the list of attributes on the field like Required / Custom / Hidden
puts "state is required : #{fields["State"]["Required"]}"
puts "description is required : #{fields["Description"]["Required"]}"

This required knowing what is coming back from Rally's wsapi for the read on the Defect TypeDefinition. The get_fields_for method returns a hash where the key is the field's DisplayName in Rally and the specific attribute def as the field is the value.

A method I would think of adding is something like get_required_fields_for("type") or something like that.