.. _api:

===

API

===

Kallithea has a simple JSON RPC API with a single schema for calling all API

methods. Everything is available by sending JSON encoded http(s) requests to

``<your_server>/_admin/api``.

API access

----------

Clients must send JSON encoded JSON-RPC requests::

    {

        "id: "<id>",

        "api_key": "<api_key>",

        "method": "<method_name>",

        "args": {"<arg_key>": "<arg_val>"}

    }

For example, to pull to a local "CPython" mirror using curl::

    curl https://kallithea.example.com/_admin/api -X POST -H 'content-type:text/plain' \

        --data-binary '{"id":1,"api_key":"xe7cdb2v278e4evbdf5vs04v832v0efvcbcve4a3","method":"pull","args":{"repo":"CPython"}}'

In general, provide

 - *id*, a value of any type, can be used to match the response with the request that it is replying to.

 - *api_key*, for authentication and permission validation.

 - *method*, the name of the method to call -- a list of available methods can be found below.

 - *args*, the arguments to pass to the method.

.. note::

    api_key can be found or set on the user account page.

The response to the JSON-RPC API call will always be a JSON structure::

    {

        "id": <id>,  # the id that was used in the request

        "result": <result>|null,  # JSON formatted result (null on error)

        "error": null|<error_message>  # JSON formatted error (null on success)

    }

All responses from the API will be ``HTTP/1.0 200 OK``. If an error occurs,

the reponse will have a failure description in *error* and

*result* will be null.

API client

----------

Kallithea comes with a ``kallithea-api`` command line tool, providing a convenient

way to call the JSON-RPC API.

For example, to call ``get_repo``::

    kallithea-api --apihost=<Kallithea URL> --apikey=<API key> get_repo

    Calling method get_repo => <Kallithea URL>

    Server response

    ERROR:"Missing non optional `repoid` arg in JSON DATA"

Oops, looks like we forgot to add an argument. Let's try again, now

providing the ``repoid`` as a parameter::

    kallithea-api --apihost=<Kallithea URL> --apikey=<API key> get_repo repoid:myrepo

    Calling method get_repo => <Kallithea URL>

    Server response

    {

        "clone_uri": null,

        "created_on": "2015-08-31T14:55:19.042",

    ...

To avoid specifying ``apihost`` and ``apikey`` every time, run::

    kallithea-api --save-config --apihost=<Kallithea URL> --apikey=<API key>

This will create a ``~/.config/kallithea`` with the specified URL and API key

so you don't have to specify them every time.

API methods

-----------

pull

^^^^

Pull the given repo from remote location. Can be used to automatically keep

remote repos up to date.

This command can only be executed using the api_key of a user with admin rights.

INPUT::

    id : <id_for_response>

    api_key : "<api_key>"

    method :  "pull"

    args :    {

                "repoid" : "<reponame or repo_id>"

              }

OUTPUT::

INPUT::

    id : <id_for_response>

    api_key : "<api_key>"

    method :  "grant_user_permission"

    args:     {

                "repoid" : "<reponame or repo_id>"

                "userid" : "<username or user_id>"

                "perm" :       "(repository.(none|read|write|admin))",

              }

OUTPUT::

    id : <id_given_in_input>

    result: {

              "msg" : "Granted perm: `<perm>` for user: `<username>` in repo: `<reponame>`",

              "success": true

            }

    error:  null

revoke_user_permission

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Revoke permission for a user on the given repository.

This command can only be executed using the api_key of a user with admin rights.

INPUT::

    id : <id_for_response>

    api_key : "<api_key>"

    method  : "revoke_user_permission"

    args:     {

                "repoid" : "<reponame or repo_id>"

                "userid" : "<username or user_id>"

              }

OUTPUT::

    id : <id_given_in_input>

    result: {

              "msg" : "Revoked perm for user: `<username>` in repo: `<reponame>`",

              "success": true

            }

    error:  null

grant_user_group_permission

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Grant permission for a user group on the given repository, or update the

existing one if found.

This command can only be executed using the api_key of a user with admin rights.

INPUT::

    id : <id_for_response>

    api_key : "<api_key>"

    method :  "grant_user_group_permission"

    args:     {

                "repoid" : "<reponame or repo_id>"

                "usersgroupid" : "<user group id or name>"

                "perm" : "(repository.(none|read|write|admin))",

              }

OUTPUT::

    id : <id_given_in_input>

    result: {

              "msg" : "Granted perm: `<perm>` for group: `<usersgroupname>` in repo: `<reponame>`",

              "success": true

            }

    error:  null

revoke_user_group_permission

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Revoke permission for a user group on the given repository.

This command can only be executed using the api_key of a user with admin rights.

INPUT::

    id : <id_for_response>

    api_key : "<api_key>"

    method  : "revoke_user_group_permission"

    args:     {

                "repoid" : "<reponame or repo_id>"

                "usersgroupid" : "<user group id or name>"

              }

OUTPUT::

    id : <id_given_in_input>

    result: {

              "msg" : "Revoked perm for group: `<usersgroupname>` in repo: `<reponame>`",

              "success": true

            }

    error:  null