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 web view in RhodeCode that is decorated with @LoginRequired decorator. To enable API access simple change the standard login decorator to @LoginRequired(api_access=True). After this change, a rhodecode view can be accessed without login by adding a GET parameter ?api_key=<api_key> to url. By default this is 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>, # matching id sent by request
"result": "<result>"|null, # JSON formatted result, null if any errors
"error": "null"|<error_message> # JSON formatted error (if any)
}
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 CLIENT
From version 1.4 RhodeCode adds a binary script that allows to easily communicate with API. After installing RhodeCode a rhodecode-api script will be available.
To get started quickly simply run:
rhodecode-api _create_config --apikey=<youapikey> --apihost=<rhodecode host>
This will create a file named .config in the directory you executed it storing json config file with credentials. You can skip this step and always provide both of the arguments to be able to communicate with server
after that simply run any api command for example get_repo:
rhodecode-api get_repo
calling {"api_key": "<apikey>", "id": 75, "args": {}, "method": "get_repo"} to http://127.0.0.1:5000
rhodecode said:
{'error': 'Missing non optional `repoid` arg in JSON DATA',
'id': 75,
'result': None}
Ups looks like we forgot to add an argument
Let's try again now giving the repoid as parameters:
rhodecode-api get_repo repoid:rhodecode
calling {"api_key": "<apikey>", "id": 39, "args": {"repoid": "rhodecode"}, "method": "get_repo"} to http://127.0.0.1:5000
rhodecode said:
{'error': None,
'id': 39,
'result': <json data...>}
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:
id : <id_for_response>
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 or user_id, Returns empty result if user is not found. This command can be executed only using api_key belonging to user with admin rights.
INPUT:
id : <id_for_response>
api_key : "<api_key>"
method : "get_user"
args : {
"userid" : "<username or user_id>"
}
OUTPUT:
result: None if user does not exist or
{
"id" : "<id>",
"username" : "<username>",
"firstname": "<firstname>",
"lastname" : "<lastname>",
"email" : "<email>",
"active" : "<bool>",
"admin" : "<bool>",
"ldap_dn" : "<ldap_dn>",
"last_login": "<last_login>",
"permissions": {
"global": ["hg.create.repository",
"repository.read",
"hg.register.manual_activate"],
"repositories": {"repo1": "repository.none"},
"repositories_groups": {"Group1": "group.read"}
},
}
error: null
get_users
Lists all existing users. This command can be executed only using api_key belonging to user with admin rights.
INPUT:
id : <id_for_response>
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_dn" : "<ldap_dn>",
"last_login": "<last_login>",
},
…
]
error: null
create_user
Creates new user. This command can be executed only using api_key belonging to user with admin rights.
INPUT:
id : <id_for_response>
api_key : "<api_key>"
method : "create_user"
args : {
"username" : "<username>",
"password" : "<password>",
"email" : "<useremail>",
"firstname" : "<firstname> = None",
"lastname" : "<lastname> = None",
"active" : "<bool> = True",
"admin" : "<bool> = False",
"ldap_dn" : "<ldap_dn> = None"
}
OUTPUT:
result: {
"id" : "<new_user_id>",
"msg" : "created new user <username>",
"user": {
"id" : "<id>",
"username" : "<username>",
"firstname": "<firstname>",
"lastname" : "<lastname>",
"email" : "<email>",
"active" : "<bool>",
"admin" : "<bool>",
"ldap_dn" : "<ldap_dn>",
"last_login": "<last_login>",
},
}
error: null
update_user
updates given user if such user exists. This command can be executed only using api_key belonging to user with admin rights.
INPUT:
id : <id_for_response>
api_key : "<api_key>"
method : "update_user"
args : {
"userid" : "<user_id or username>",
"username" : "<username>",
"password" : "<password>",
"email" : "<useremail>",
"firstname" : "<firstname>",
"lastname" : "<lastname>",
"active" : "<bool>",
"admin" : "<bool>",
"ldap_dn" : "<ldap_dn>"
}
OUTPUT:
result: {
"id" : "<edited_user_id>",
"msg" : "updated user ID:<userid> <username>"
}
error: null
delete_user
deletes givenuser if such user exists. This command can be executed only using api_key belonging to user with admin rights.
INPUT:
id : <id_for_response>
api_key : "<api_key>"
method : "delete_user"
args : {
"userid" : "<user_id or username>",
}
OUTPUT:
result: {
"id" : "<edited_user_id>",
"msg" : "deleted user ID:<userid> <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:
id : <id_for_response>
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:
id : <id_for_response>
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:
id : <id_for_response>
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. If user exists in that group success will be false. This command can be executed only using api_key belonging to user with admin rights
INPUT:
id : <id_for_response>
api_key : "<api_key>"
method : "add_user_users_group"
args: {
"group_name" : "<groupname>",
"username" : "<username>"
}
OUTPUT:
result: {
"id": "<newusersgroupmemberid>",
"success": True|False # depends on if member is in group
"msg": "added member <username> to users group <groupname> |
User is already in that group"
}
error: null
remove_user_from_users_group
Removes a user from a users group. If user is not in given group success will be false. This command can be executed only using api_key belonging to user with admin rights
INPUT:
id : <id_for_response>
api_key : "<api_key>"
method : "remove_user_from_users_group"
args: {
"group_name" : "<groupname>",
"username" : "<username>"
}
OUTPUT:
result: {
"success": True|False, # depends on if member is in group
"msg": "removed member <username> from users group <groupname> |
User wasn't in group"
}
error: null
get_repo
Gets an existing repository by it's name or repository_id. Members will return either users_group or user associated to that repository. This command can be executed only using api_key belonging to user with admin rights.
INPUT:
id : <id_for_response>
api_key : "<api_key>"
method : "get_repo"
args: {
"repoid" : "<reponame or repo_id>"
}
OUTPUT:
result: None if repository does not exist or
{
"id" : "<id>",
"repo_name" : "<reponame>"
"type" : "<type>",
"description" : "<description>",
"clone_uri" : "<clone_uri>",
"private": : "<bool>",
"created_on" : "<datetimecreated>",
"members" : [
{
"type": "user",
"id" : "<userid>",
"username" : "<username>",
"firstname": "<firstname>",
"lastname" : "<lastname>",
"email" : "<email>",
"active" : "<bool>",
"admin" : "<bool>",
"ldap" : "<ldap_dn>",
"permission" : "repository.(read|write|admin)"
},
…
{
"type": "users_group",
"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:
id : <id_for_response>
api_key : "<api_key>"
method : "get_repos"
args: { }
OUTPUT:
result: [
{
"id" : "<id>",
"repo_name" : "<reponame>"
"type" : "<type>",
"description" : "<description>",
"clone_uri" : "<clone_uri>",
"private": : "<bool>",
"created_on" : "<datetimecreated>",
},
…
]
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:
id : <id_for_response>
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:
id : <id_for_response>
api_key : "<api_key>"
method : "create_repo"
args: {
"repo_name" : "<reponame>",
"owner_name" : "<ownername>",
"description" : "<description> = ''",
"repo_type" : "<type> = 'hg'",
"private" : "<bool> = False",
"clone_uri" : "<clone_uri> = None",
}
OUTPUT:
result: {
"id": "<newrepoid>",
"msg": "Created new repository <reponame>",
"repo": {
"id" : "<id>",
"repo_name" : "<reponame>"
"type" : "<type>",
"description" : "<description>",
"clone_uri" : "<clone_uri>",
"private": : "<bool>",
"created_on" : "<datetimecreated>",
},
}
error: null
delete_repo
Deletes a repository. This command can be executed only using api_key belonging to user with admin rights.
INPUT:
id : <id_for_response>
api_key : "<api_key>"
method : "delete_repo"
args: {
"repo_name" : "<reponame>",
}
OUTPUT:
result: {
"msg": "Deleted repository <reponame>",
}
error: null
grant_user_permission
Grant permission for user on given repository, or update existing one if found. This command can be executed only using api_key belonging to user with admin rights.
INPUT:
id : <id_for_response>
api_key : "<api_key>"
method : "grant_user_permission"
args: {
"repo_name" : "<reponame>",
"username" : "<username>",
"perm" : "(repository.(none|read|write|admin))",
}
OUTPUT:
result: {
"msg" : "Granted perm: <perm> for user: <username> in repo: <reponame>"
}
error: null
revoke_user_permission
Revoke permission for user on given repository. This command can be executed only using api_key belonging to user with admin rights.
INPUT:
id : <id_for_response>
api_key : "<api_key>"
method : "revoke_user_permission"
args: {
"repo_name" : "<reponame>",
"username" : "<username>",
}
OUTPUT:
result: {
"msg" : "Revoked perm for user: <suername> in repo: <reponame>"
}
error: null
grant_users_group_permission
Grant permission for users group on given repository, or update existing one if found. This command can be executed only using api_key belonging to user with admin rights.
INPUT:
id : <id_for_response>
api_key : "<api_key>"
method : "grant_users_group_permission"
args: {
"repo_name" : "<reponame>",
"group_name" : "<usersgroupname>",
"perm" : "(repository.(none|read|write|admin))",
}
OUTPUT:
result: {
"msg" : "Granted perm: <perm> for group: <usersgroupname> in repo: <reponame>"
}
error: null
revoke_users_group_permission
Revoke permission for users group on given repository.This command can be executed only using api_key belonging to user with admin rights.
INPUT:
id : <id_for_response>
api_key : "<api_key>"
method : "revoke_users_group_permission"
args: {
"repo_name" : "<reponame>",
"users_group" : "<usersgroupname>",
}
OUTPUT:
result: {
"msg" : "Revoked perm for group: <usersgroupname> in repo: <reponame>"
}
error: null