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 FOR WEB VIEWS
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.
API ACCESS
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_name" : "<reponame>"
}
OUTPUT:
result : "Pulled from <reponame>" error : null
get_user
Get's an user by username, Returns empty result if user is not found. This command can be executed only using api_key belonging to user with admin rights.
INPUT:
api_key : "<api_key>"
method : "get_user"
args : {
"username" : "<username>"
}
OUTPUT:
result: None if user does not exist or
{
"id" : "<id>",
"username" : "<username>",
"firstname": "<firstname>",
"lastname" : "<lastname>",
"email" : "<email>",
"active" : "<bool>",
"admin" : "<bool>",
"ldap" : "<ldap_dn>"
}
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: {
"id" : "<new_user_id>",
"msg" : "created new user <username>"
}
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>",
"group_name" : "<groupname>",
"active": "<bool>",
"members" : [
{ "id" : "<userid>",
"username" : "<username>",
"firstname": "<firstname>",
"lastname" : "<lastname>",
"email" : "<email>",
"active" : "<bool>",
"admin" : "<bool>",
"ldap" : "<ldap_dn>"
},
…
]
}
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>",
"group_name" : "<groupname>",
"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
Creates new users group. This command can be executed only using api_key belonging to user with admin rights
INPUT:
api_key : "<api_key>"
method : "create_users_group"
args: {
"group_name": "<groupname>",
"active":"<bool> = True"
}
OUTPUT:
result: {
"id": "<newusersgroupid>",
"msg": "created new users group <groupname>"
}
error: null
add_user_to_users_group
Adds a user to a users group. This command can be executed only using api_key belonging to user with admin rights
INPUT:
api_key : "<api_key>"
method : "add_user_users_group"
args: {
"group_name" : "<groupname>",
"username" : "<username>"
}
OUTPUT:
result: {
"id": "<newusersgroupmemberid>",
"msg": "created new users group member"
}
error: null
get_repo
Gets an existing repository. This command can be executed only using api_key belonging to user with admin rights
INPUT:
api_key : "<api_key>"
method : "get_repo"
args: {
"repo_name" : "<reponame>"
}
OUTPUT:
result: None if repository does not exist or
{
"id" : "<id>",
"repo_name" : "<reponame>"
"type" : "<type>",
"description" : "<description>",
"members" : [
{ "id" : "<userid>",
"username" : "<username>",
"firstname": "<firstname>",
"lastname" : "<lastname>",
"email" : "<email>",
"active" : "<bool>",
"admin" : "<bool>",
"ldap" : "<ldap_dn>",
"permission" : "repository.(read|write|admin)"
},
…
{
"id" : "<usersgroupid>",
"name" : "<usersgroupname>",
"active": "<bool>",
"permission" : "repository.(read|write|admin)"
},
…
]
}
error: null
get_repos
Lists all existing repositories. This command can be executed only using api_key belonging to user with admin rights
INPUT:
api_key : "<api_key>"
method : "get_repos"
args: { }
OUTPUT:
result: [
{
"id" : "<id>",
"repo_name" : "<reponame>"
"type" : "<type>",
"description" : "<description>"
},
…
]
error: null
get_repo_nodes
returns a list of nodes and it's children in a flat list for a given path at given revision. It's possible to specify ret_type to show only files or dirs. This command can be executed only using api_key belonging to user with admin rights
INPUT:
api_key : "<api_key>"
method : "get_repo_nodes"
args: {
"repo_name" : "<reponame>",
"revision" : "<revision>",
"root_path" : "<root_path>",
"ret_type" : "<ret_type>" = 'all'
}
OUTPUT:
result: [
{
"name" : "<name>"
"type" : "<type>",
},
…
]
error: null
create_repo
Creates a repository. This command can be executed only using api_key belonging to user with admin rights. If repository name contains "/", all needed repository groups will be created. For example "foo/bar/baz" will create groups "foo", "bar" (with "foo" as parent), and create "baz" repository with "bar" as group.
INPUT:
api_key : "<api_key>"
method : "create_repo"
args: {
"repo_name" : "<reponame>",
"owner_name" : "<ownername>",
"description" : "<description> = ''",
"repo_type" : "<type> = 'hg'",
"private" : "<bool> = False"
}
OUTPUT:
result: {
"id": "<newrepoid>",
"msg": "Created new repository <reponame>",
}
error: null
add_user_to_repo
Add a user to a repository. This command can be executed only using api_key belonging to user with admin rights. If "perm" is None, user will be removed from the repository.
INPUT:
api_key : "<api_key>"
method : "add_user_to_repo"
args: {
"repo_name" : "<reponame>",
"username" : "<username>",
"perm" : "(None|repository.(read|write|admin))",
}
OUTPUT:
result: {
"msg" : "Added perm: <perm> for <username> in repo: <reponame>"
}
error: null
add_users_group_to_repo
Add a users group to a repository. This command can be executed only using api_key belonging to user with admin rights. If "perm" is None, group will be removed from the repository.
INPUT:
api_key : "<api_key>"
method : "add_users_group_to_repo"
args: {
"repo_name" : "<reponame>",
"group_name" : "<groupname>",
"perm" : "(None|repository.(read|write|admin))",
}
OUTPUT:
result: {
"msg" : Added perm: <perm> for <groupname> in repo: <reponame>"
}