Users¶

• Table of contents
• Users
  • /users.:format
    • GET
    • POST
  • /users/:id.:format
    • GET
    • PUT
    • DELETE
  • See also

/users.:format¶

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 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

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
  • mail_notification: only_my_events, none, etc.
  • must_change_passwd: true or false

Example:

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>

JSON

{
    "user": {
        "login": "jplang",
        "firstname": "Jean-Philippe",
        "lastname": "Lang",
        "mail": "jp_lang@yahoo.fr",
        "password": "secret" 
    }
}

Response:

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

/users/:id.:format¶

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 : adds extra information about user's memberships and roles on the projects
  • groups (added in 2.1) : adds extra information about user's groups

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:

<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>

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 for a list of available statuses.

PUT¶

Updates a user.

Example:

PUT /users/20.xml

Parameters:

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

DELETE¶

Deletes a user.

Example:

DELETE /users/20.xml

Response:

• 200 OK: user was deleted

See also¶

• The Memberships API for adding or removing a user from a project.
• The Groups API for adding or removing a user from a group.