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List users

Get a list of users.

GET /users
[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "username": "john_smith",
    "email": "john@example.com",
    "name": "John Smith",
    "blocked": false,
    "created_at": "2012-05-23T08:00:58Z",
    "bio": null,
    "skype": "",
    "linkedin": "",
    "twitter": "",
    "dark_scheme": false,
    "extern_uid": "john.smith",
    "provider": "provider_name",
    "theme_id": 1
  },
  {
    "id": 2,
    "username": "jack_smith",
    "email": "jack@example.com",
    "name": "Jack Smith",
    "blocked": false,
    "created_at": "2012-05-23T08:01:01Z",
    "bio": null,
    "skype": "",
    "linkedin": "",
    "twitter": "",
    "dark_scheme": true,
    "extern_uid": "jack.smith",
    "provider": "provider_name",
    "theme_id": 1
  }
]

Single user

Get a single user.

GET /users/:id

Parameters:

  • id (required) - The ID of a user
{
  "id": 1,
  "username": "john_smith",
  "email": "john@example.com",
  "name": "John Smith",
  "blocked": false,
  "created_at": "2012-05-23T08:00:58Z",
  "bio": null,
  "skype": "",
  "linkedin": "",
  "twitter": "",
  "dark_scheme": false,
  "extern_uid": "john.smith",
  "provider": "provider_name",
  "theme_id": 1
}

User creation

Creates a new user. Note only administrators can create new users.

POST /users

Parameters:

  • email (required) - Email
  • password (required) - Password
  • username (required) - Username
  • name (required) - Name
  • skype (optional) - Skype ID
  • linkedin (optional) - Linkedin
  • twitter (optional) - Twitter account
  • projects_limit (optional) - Number of projects user can create
  • extern_uid (optional) - External UID
  • provider (optional) - External provider name
  • bio (optional) - User's bio

User modification

Modifies an existing user. Only administrators can change attributes of a user.

PUT /users/:id

Parameters:

  • email - Email
  • username - Username
  • name - Name
  • password - Password
  • skype - Skype ID
  • linkedin - Linkedin
  • twitter - Twitter account
  • projects_limit - Limit projects wich user can create
  • extern_uid - External UID
  • provider - External provider name
  • bio - User's bio

Note, at the moment this method does only return a 404 error, even in cases where a 409 (Conflict) would be more appropriate, e.g. when renaming the email address to some exsisting one.

User deletion

Deletes a user. Available only for administrators. This is an idempotent function, calling this function for a non-existent user id still returns a status code 200 Ok. The JSON response differs if the user was actually deleted or not. In the former the user is returned and in the latter not.

DELETE /users/:id

Parameters:

  • id (required) - The ID of the user

Current user

Gets currently authenticated user.

GET /user
{
  "id": 1,
  "username": "john_smith",
  "email": "john@example.com",
  "name": "John Smith",
  "blocked": false,
  "created_at": "2012-05-23T08:00:58Z",
  "bio": null,
  "skype": "",
  "linkedin": "",
  "twitter": "",
  "dark_scheme": false,
  "theme_id": 1
}

List SSH keys

Get a list of currently authenticated user's SSH keys.

GET /user/keys
[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "title" : "Public key"
    "key": "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAIEAiPWx6WM4lhHNedGfBpPJNPpZ7yKu+dnn1SJejgt4
      596k6YjzGGphH2TUxwKzxcKDKKezwkpfnxPkSMkuEspGRt/aZZ9wa++Oi7Qkr8prgHc4
      soW6NUlfDzpvZK2H5E7eQaSeP3SAwGmQKUFHCddNaP0L+hM7zhFNzjFvpaMgJw0=",
  },
  {
    "id": 3,
    "title" : "Another Public key"
    "key": "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAIEAiPWx6WM4lhHNedGfBpPJNPpZ7yKu+dnn1SJejgt4
      596k6YjzGGphH2TUxwKzxcKDKKezwkpfnxPkSMkuEspGRt/aZZ9wa++Oi7Qkr8prgHc4
      soW6NUlfDzpvZK2H5E7eQaSeP3SAwGmQKUFHCddNaP0L+hM7zhFNzjFvpaMgJw0="
  }
]

Parameters:

  • none

Single SSH key

Get a single key.

GET /user/keys/:id

Parameters:

  • id (required) - The ID of an SSH key
{
  "id": 1,
  "title" : "Public key"
  "key": "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAIEAiPWx6WM4lhHNedGfBpPJNPpZ7yKu+dnn1SJejgt4
      596k6YjzGGphH2TUxwKzxcKDKKezwkpfnxPkSMkuEspGRt/aZZ9wa++Oi7Qkr8prgHc4
      soW6NUlfDzpvZK2H5E7eQaSeP3SAwGmQKUFHCddNaP0L+hM7zhFNzjFvpaMgJw0="
}

Add SSH key

Creates a new key owned by the currently authenticated user.

POST /user/keys

Parameters:

  • title (required) - new SSH Key's title
  • key (required) - new SSH key

Add SSH key for user

Create new key owned by specified user. Available only for admin

POST /users/:id/keys

Parameters:

  • id (required) - id of specified user
  • title (required) - new SSH Key's title
  • key (required) - new SSH key

Will return created key with status 201 Created on success, or 404 Not found on fail.

Delete SSH key

Deletes key owned by currently authenticated user. This is an idempotent function and calling it on a key that is already deleted or not available results in 200 Ok.

DELETE /user/keys/:id

Parameters:

  • id (required) - SSH key ID