Issues¶

• Table of contents
• Issues
  • Listing issues
  • Showing an issue
  • Creating an issue
    • Using XML
    • Using JSON
  • Updating an issue
    • Using XML
    • Using JSON
  • Deleting an issue
  • Adding a watcher
  • Removing a watcher

Listing issues¶

GET /issues.xml

Returns a paginated list of issues. By default, it returns open issues only.

Parameters:

• offset: skip this number of issues in response (optional)
• limit: number of issues per page (optional)
• sort: column to sort with. Append :desc to invert the order.

Optional filters:

• project_id: get issues from the project with the given id, where id is either project id or project identifier
• subproject_id: get issues from the subproject with the given id. You can use project_id=XXX&subproject_id=!* to get only the issues of a given project and none of its subprojects.
• tracker_id: get issues from the tracker with the given id
• status_id: get issues with the given status id only. Possible values: open, closed, * to get open and closed issues, status id
• assigned_to_id: get issues which are assigned to the given user id
• cf_x: get issues with the given value for custom field with an ID of x. (Custom field must have 'used as a filter' checked.)
• ...

Examples:

GET /issues.xml
GET /issues.xml?project_id=2
GET /issues.xml?project_id=2&tracker_id=1
GET /issues.xml?assigned_to_id=6
GET /issues.xml?status_id=closed
GET /issues.xml?status_id=*
GET /issues.xml?cf_1=abcdef

Paging example:
GET /issues.xml?project_id=testproject&query_id=2&offset=0&limit=100
GET /issues.xml?project_id=testproject&query_id=2&offset=50&limit=100

To fetch issues for a date range:
GET /issues.xml?created_on=><2012-03-01|2012-03-07

Response:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<issues type="array" count="1640">
  <issue>
    <id>4326</id>
    <project name="Redmine" id="1"/>
    <tracker name="Feature" id="2"/>
    <status name="New" id="1"/>
    <priority name="Normal" id="4"/>
    <author name="John Smith" id="10106"/>
    <category name="Email notifications" id="9"/>
    <subject>
      Aggregate Multiple Issue Changes for Email Notifications
    </subject>
    <description>
      This is not to be confused with another useful proposed feature that
      would do digest emails for notifications.
    </description>
    <start_date>2009-12-03</start_date>
    <due_date></due_date>
    <done_ratio>0</done_ratio>
    <estimated_hours></estimated_hours>
    <custom_fields>
      <custom_field name="Resolution" id="2">Duplicate</custom_field>
      <custom_field name="Texte" id="5">Test</custom_field>
      <custom_field name="Boolean" id="6">1</custom_field>
      <custom_field name="Date" id="7">2010-01-12</custom_field>
    </custom_fields>
    <created_on>Thu Dec 03 15:02:12 +0100 2009</created_on>
    <updated_on>Sun Jan 03 12:08:41 +0100 2010</updated_on>
  </issue>
  <issue>
    <id>4325</id>
    ...
  </issue>
</issues>

Showing an issue¶

GET /issues/[id].[format]

Parameters:

• include: fetch associated data (optional, use comma to fetch multiple associations). Possible values:
  • children
  • attachments
  • relations
  • changesets
  • journals - See Issue journals for more information.
  • watchers - Since 2.3.0

Examples:

GET /issues/2.xml
GET /issues/2.json

GET /issues/2.xml
GET /issues/2.xml?include=attachments
GET /issues/2.xml?include=attachments,journals

Creating an issue¶

Using XML¶

  POST /issues.xml
  <?xml version="1.0"?>
  <issue>
    <subject>Example</subject>
    <project_id>1</project_id>
    <priority_id>4</priority_id>
  </issue>

Other available tags:

• description
• category_id
• assigned_to_id - ID of the user to assign the issue to (currently no mechanism to assign by name)
• status_id
• parent_issue_id - ID of the parent issue
• watcher_user_ids - Array of user ids to add as watchers (since 2.3.0)

Attachments can be added when you create an issue, see Attaching files.

Using JSON¶

POST /issues.json
{
    "issue": {
      "project_id": "example",
      "subject": "Test issue",
      "custom_field_values":{
                              "1":"1.1.3"  #the affected version field
      }
    }
}

Updating an issue¶

Attachments can be added when you update an issue, see Attaching files.

Using XML¶

PUT /issues/[id].xml

Using JSON¶

PUT /issues/[id].json
{
    "issue": {
      "subject": "Example issue (was: Test issue)",
      "notes": "Changing the subject" 
    }
}

Deleting an issue¶

DELETE /issues/[id].xml

Adding a watcher¶

POST /issues/[id]/watchers.[format]

Parameters:

• user_id (required): id of the user to add as a watcher

Removing a watcher¶

DELETE /issues/[id]/watchers/[user_id].[format]

Parameters: none