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Marcin Kuzminski - 14 years ago 2011-12-28 22:57:57
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Added instruction on enabling the API access to web views
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.. _api:
 

	
 

	
 
API
 
===
 

	
 

	
 
Starting from RhodeCode version 1.2 a simple API was implemented.
 
There's a single schema for calling all api methods. API is implemented
 
with JSON protocol both ways. An url to send API request in RhodeCode is
 
<your_server>/_admin/api
 

	
 

	
 
API access can also be turned on for each view decorated with `@LoginRequired`
 
decorator. To enable API access simple change standard login decorator into
 
`@LoginRequired(api_access=True)`. After such a change view can be accessed
 
by adding a GET parameter to url `?api_key=<api_key>`. By default it's only
 
enabled on RSS/ATOM feed views.
 

	
 

	
 
All clients are required to send JSON-RPC spec JSON data::
 

	
 
    {   
 
        "id:<id>,
 
        "api_key":"<api_key>",
 
        "method":"<method_name>",
 
        "args":{"<arg_key>":"<arg_val>"}
 
    }
 

	
 
Example call for autopulling remotes repos using curl::
 
    curl https://server.com/_admin/api -X POST -H 'content-type:text/plain' --data-binary '{"id":1,"api_key":"xe7cdb2v278e4evbdf5vs04v832v0efvcbcve4a3","method":"pull","args":{"repo":"CPython"}}'
 

	
 
Simply provide
 
 - *id* A value of any type, which is used to match the response with the request that it is replying to.
 
 - *api_key* for access and permission validation.
 
 - *method* is name of method to call
 
 - *args* is an key:value list of arguments to pass to method
 

	
 
.. note::
 

	
 
    api_key can be found in your user account page
 

	
 

	
 
RhodeCode API will return always a JSON-RPC response::
 

	
 
    {   
 
        "id":<id>,
 
        "result": "<result>",
 
        "error": null
 
    }
 

	
 
All responses from API will be `HTTP/1.0 200 OK`, if there's an error while
 
calling api *error* key from response will contain failure description
 
and result will be null.
 

	
 
API METHODS
 
+++++++++++
 

	
 

	
 
pull
 
----
 

	
 
Pulls given repo from remote location. Can be used to automatically keep
 
remote repos up to date. This command can be executed only using api_key
 
belonging to user with admin rights
 

	
 
INPUT::
 

	
 
    api_key : "<api_key>"
 
    method :  "pull"
 
    args :    {
 
                "repo" : "<repo_name>"
 
              }
 

	
 
OUTPUT::
 

	
 
    result : "Pulled from <repo_name>"
 
    error :  null
 

	
 

	
 
get_users
 
---------
 

	
 
Lists all existing users. This command can be executed only using api_key
 
belonging to user with admin rights.
 

	
 
INPUT::
 

	
 
    api_key : "<api_key>"
 
    method :  "get_users"
 
    args :    { }
 

	
 
OUTPUT::
 

	
 
    result: [
 
              {
 
                "id" :       "<id>",
 
                "username" : "<username>",
 
                "firstname": "<firstname>",
 
                "lastname" : "<lastname>",
 
                "email" :    "<email>",
 
                "active" :   "<bool>",
 
                "admin" :    "<bool>",
 
                "ldap" :     "<ldap_dn>"
 
              },
 
    	
 
            ]
 
    error:  null
 

	
 
create_user
 
-----------
 

	
 
Creates new user in RhodeCode. This command can be executed only using api_key
 
belonging to user with admin rights.
 

	
 
INPUT::
 

	
 
    api_key : "<api_key>"
 
    method :  "create_user"
 
    args :    {
 
                "username" :  "<username>",
 
                "password" :  "<password>",
 
                "firstname" : "<firstname>",
 
                "lastname" :  "<lastname>",
 
                "email" :     "<useremail>"
 
                "active" :    "<bool> = True",
 
                "admin" :     "<bool> = False",
 
                "ldap_dn" :   "<ldap_dn> = None"
 
              }
 

	
 
OUTPUT::
 

	
 
    result: {
 
              "msg" : "created new user <username>"
 
            }
 
    error:  null
 

	
 
get_users_groups
 
----------------
 

	
 
Lists all existing users groups. This command can be executed only using api_key
 
belonging to user with admin rights.
 

	
 
INPUT::
 

	
 
    api_key : "<api_key>"
 
    method :  "get_users_groups"
 
    args :    { }
 

	
 
OUTPUT::
 

	
 
    result : [
 
               {
 
                 "id" :       "<id>",
 
                 "name" :     "<name>",
 
                 "active":    "<bool>",
 
                 "members" :  [
 
	    	                    {
 
	    	                      "id" :       "<userid>",
 
	                              "username" : "<username>",
 
	                              "firstname": "<firstname>",
 
	                              "lastname" : "<lastname>",
 
	                              "email" :    "<email>",
 
	                              "active" :   "<bool>",
 
	                              "admin" :    "<bool>",
 
	                              "ldap" :     "<ldap_dn>"
 
	                            },
 
	    	
 
	                          ]
 
	            }
 
              ]
 
    error : null
 

	
 
get_users_group
 
---------------
 

	
 
Gets an existing users group. This command can be executed only using api_key
 
belonging to user with admin rights.
 

	
 
INPUT::
 

	
 
    api_key : "<api_key>"
 
    method :  "get_users_group"
 
    args :    {
 
                "group_name" : "<name>"
 
              }
 

	
 
OUTPUT::
 

	
 
    result : None if group not exist
 
             {
 
               "id" :       "<id>",
 
               "name" :     "<name>",
 
               "active":    "<bool>",
 
               "members" :  [
 
	    	                  { "id" :       "<userid>",
 
	                            "username" : "<username>",
 
	                            "firstname": "<firstname>",
 
	                            "lastname" : "<lastname>",
 
	                            "email" :    "<email>",
 
	                            "active" :   "<bool>",
 
	                            "admin" :    "<bool>",
 
	                            "ldap" :     "<ldap_dn>"
 
	                          },
 
	    	
 
	                        ]
 
             }
 
    error : null
 

	
 
create_users_group
 
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