Redmine

h1. Users

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h2. /users.:format

h3. GET

Returns a list of users.

+Example+:

  GET /users.xml

Optional filters:

* @status@: get only users with the given status. See "app/models/principal.rb":/projects/redmine/repository/entry/trunk/app/models/principal.rb#L22-25 for a list of available statuses. Default is @1@ (active users)

* @name@: filter users on their login, firstname, lastname and mail ; if the pattern contains a space, it will also return users whose firstname match the first word or lastname match the second word.

* @group_id@: get only users who are members of the given group

h3. POST

Creates a user.

+Parameters+:

* @user@ (required): a hash of the user attributes, including:

  * @login@ (required): the user login

  * @password@: the user password

  * @firstname@ (required)

  * @lastname@ (required)

  * @mail@ (required)

  * @auth_source_id@: authentication mode id

+Example+:

<pre>

POST /users.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>

<user>

  <login>jplang</login>

  <firstname>Jean-Philippe</firstname>

  <lastname>Lang</lastname>

  <password>secret</password>

  <mail>jp_lang@yahoo.fr</mail>

  <auth_source_id>2</auth_source_id>

</user>

</pre>

JSON

<pre>

{

    "user": {

        "login": "jplang",

        "firstname": "Jean-Philippe",

        "lastname": "Lang",

        "mail": "jp_lang@yahoo.fr",

        "password": "secret"

    }

}

</pre>

+Response+:

  * @201 Created@: user was created

  * @422 Unprocessable Entity@: user was not created due to validation failures (response body contains the error messages)

h2. /users/:id.:format

h3. GET

Returns the user details. You can use @/users/current.:format@ for retrieving the user whose credentials are used to access the API.

+Parameters+:

* @include@ (optional): a coma separated list of associations to include in the response:

  * @memberships@

  * @groups@ (added in 2.1)

+Examples+:

  GET /users/current.xml

Returns the details about the current user.

  GET /users/3.xml?include=memberships,groups

Returns the details about user ID 3, and additional detail about the user's project memberships.

+Reponse+:

<pre>

<user>

  <id>3</id>

  <login>jplang</login>

  <firstname>Jean-Philippe</firstname>

  <lastname>Lang</lastname>

  <mail>jp_lang@yahoo.fr</mail>

  <created_on>2007-09-28T00:16:04+02:00</created_on>

  <last_login_on>2011-08-01T18:05:45+02:00</last_login_on>

  <custom_fields type="array" />

  <memberships type="array">

    <membership>

      <project name="Redmine" id="1"/>

      <roles type="array">

        <role name="Administrator" id="3"/>

        <role name="Contributor" id="4"/>

      </roles>

    </membership>

  </memberships>

  <groups type="array">

    <group id="20" name="Developers"/>

  </groups>

</user>

</pre>

Depending on the status of the user who makes the request, you can get some more details:

* @api_key@ : the API key of the user, visible for admins and for yourself (added in 2.3.0)

* @status@ : a numeric id representing the status of the user, visible for admins only (added in 2.4.0). See "app/models/principal.rb":/projects/redmine/repository/entry/trunk/app/models/principal.rb#L22-25 for a list of available statuses.

h3. PUT

Updates a user.

+Example+:

  PUT /users/20.xml

+Parameters+:

* @user@ (required): a hash of the user attributes (same as for user creation)

h3. DELETE

Deletes a user.

+Example+:

  DELETE /users/20.xml

+Response+:

  * @200 OK@: user was deleted

h2. See also

* The [[Rest_Memberships|Memberships API]] for adding or removing a user from a project.

* The [[Rest_Groups|Groups API]] for adding or removing a user from a group.