Add support for Robot Comments

Extend the PostReview REST endpoint to support posting of robot
comments. For this ReviewInput got a new field that can contain a list
of robot comments. For reading robot comments new REST endpoints have
been added.

Robot comments are only supported with NoteDb, but not with ReviewDb.

Robot comments are always stored as JSON, even if notedb.writeJson is
set to false.

In NoteDb robot comments are not stored in the change meta ref but in
a separate refs/changes/XX/YYYY/robot-comments ref. By storing robot
comments in a separate ref we can delete robot comments without
rewriting the history of the change meta branch which is needed for
auditing and hence cannot be rewritten. Deletion of robot comments is
not implemented in this change, but we may want to support this later
as the amount and size of robot comments can be large.

Draft robot comments are not supported, but robot comments are always
published comments.

Change-Id: I2d8a5ca59e9a8b2c34863c54a3a9576599f69526
Signed-off-by: Edwin Kempin <ekempin@google.com>
46 files changed
tree: 6d1d559631805127caf351cc223610a513ea4e5f
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