Redmine

Agreed, it's a must-have.

+1

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...

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.

I think it should not be exposed through REST API for the same reason.

Even after authentication via API token?

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.

submitted: http://www.redmine.org/issues/19354

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).

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

1. Download plugin
2. Extract to your Redmine into vendor/plugins/redmine_info_api
3. Restart web server
4. request with admin user & basic auth https://redmine.example.com/adminapi/info.json