Issues¶

Listing issues¶

GET /issues.xml

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

Parameters:

• page: page number (optional)

Optional filters:

• project_id: get issues from the project with the given id
• tracker_id: get issues from the tracker with the given id
• status_id: get issues with the given status id only (you can use * to get open and closed issues)
• ...

Examples:

GET /issues.xml
GET /issues.xml?project_id=2
GET /issues.xml?project_id=2&tracker_id=1

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].xml

Creating an issue¶

Using XML¶

POST /issues.xml
  <?xml version="1.0"?>
  &lt;issue&gt;
      &lt;subject&gt;Example&lt;/subject&gt;
     &lt;priority_id&gt;4&lt;/priority_id&gt;
  &lt;/issue&gt;

Using JSON¶

POST /issues.json
{
    "issue": {
      "project_id": "example",
      "subject": "Test issue" 
    }
}

Updating an issue¶

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

Authentication¶

To interact with issues that are not open to the public you must use your API key.

Examples (not real keys):

GET /issues.xml?key=1a022b4661da64e5dca53ebab0c94ad7
GET /issues.xml?project_id=2&key=1a022b4661da64e5dca53ebab0c94ad7
GET /issues.xml?project_id=2&tracker_id=1&key=1a022b4661da64e5dca53ebab0c94ad7