Redmine

h1. Users

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h2. /users.:format

h3. Listing users

GET /users.xml

Returns users.

h2. Showing a list of users.

+Example+: user

GET /users.xml /users/[id].xml

h3. POST

Creates a user.

+Parameters+:

* @user@ (required): a hash of Returns the user attributes, including: of given id.

* @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>

+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 /users/current.xml

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+: +Example+:

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>

h2. Creating a user

POST /users.xml

h3. PUT

Updates 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+:

&lt;pre&gt;
POST /users.xml

&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;ISO-8859-1&quot; ?&gt;
&lt;user&gt;
&lt;login&gt;jplang&lt;/login&gt;
&lt;firstname&gt;Jean-Philippe&lt;/firstname&gt;
&lt;lastname&gt;Lang&lt;/lastname&gt;
&lt;password&gt;secret&lt;/password&gt;
&lt;mail&gt;jp_lang@yahoo.fr&lt;/mail&gt;
&lt;auth_source_id&gt;2&lt;/auth_source_id&gt;
&lt;/user&gt;
&lt;/pre&gt;

+Response+:

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

h2. Updating a user

PUT /users/20.xml /users/[id].xml

+Parameters+:

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

h3. DELETE Updates the user of given id.

Deletes h2. Deleting a user.

+Example+: user

DELETE /users/20.xml /users/[id].xml

Deletes the user of given id.

+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.