Feature #5901
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REST API to expose the Redmine version
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Description
After reading Alexey Skor's forum post about the API versions, I think it would make 3rd party development easier if Redmine had a REST API method to find out what version of Redmine the server is running.
That way a client can check to see if the server supports the API requests it needs (e.g. 1.0+ has an issues API, 0.9 doesn't).
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Updated by Eric Davis about 14 years ago
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Eric Davis)
I am stepping down from working on Redmine. If someone else is interesting in working on this issue, feel free to reassign it to them.
Eric Davis
Updated by Alex Last about 14 years ago
this would be a very useful feature for my application. I could add a "ping" button to "Redmine server" dialog and show if the server is
1) up and running
2) has REST API enabled
3) the server version info
Updated by Etienne Massip over 13 years ago
- Target version set to Candidate for next major release
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Updated by André Jonsson over 10 years ago
Or even better, an API to request what API resources are supported by the server.
Calling it would return a list similar to the table on the page Rest_api, primarily the "resource" and "status" columns.
Perhaps a separate issue...
Updated by Go MAEDA over 10 years ago
Displaying a version number was disabled because of security concerns since Redmine 0.8(#794). I think it should not be exposed through REST API for the same reason.
Updated by Nicolas Rodriguez almost 10 years ago
I think it should not be exposed through REST API for the same reason.
Even after authentication via API token?
Updated by Alex Last almost 10 years ago
Redmine 3.x broke backward compatibility again - the date format used by it is different from Redmine 2.6.2:
From redmine 2.6.0: "updated_on":"2015-01-23T00:15:24Z"
From redmine 3.0.0: "updated_on":"2015-01-29T10:06:19.000Z"
one of our users submitted this bug report: https://github.com/taskadapter/redmine-java-api/pull/175
if we could query Redmine to see its version, we could pick the right date format instead of guessing... now we will have to check "are there 3 more digits after this and before that?"..
another (actually better!) option would be querying Redmine to see what date format it uses for long dates and short dates - because this is what the library actually cares about. I will submit this as a separate feature request.
Updated by Alex Last almost 10 years ago
submitted: http://www.redmine.org/issues/19354
Updated by Alex Last almost 10 years ago
another example: I see 'spent_hours' default value for new issues created through REST API is NULL for Redmine 3.0.0 and is equal to "0.0" for Redmine 2.6.2.
there is no way for the java api library to detect the Redmine version (well, unless we start parsing 'redmine/admin/info' HTML page, which is definitely not what we want to do).
Updated by Go MAEDA almost 10 years ago
- Related to Feature #794: Restrict display of version number in footer added
Updated by shadowbq - about 9 years ago
Not the best route implementation, but will bridge the gap for people that dont want to wait another five years..
https://www.redmine.org/plugins/redmine_info_api
https://github.com/shadowbq/redmine_info_api
- Download plugin
- Extract to your Redmine into vendor/plugins/redmine_info_api
- Restart web server
- request with admin user & basic auth https://redmine.example.com/adminapi/info.json
Updated by Go MAEDA over 4 years ago
- Has duplicate Feature #33612: Expose repository version via REST API added