Web services

REST API

Since 1.1-rc31 OpenGrok web application provides a REST API under path /api/v1/.

For Indexer and Python scripts to work correctly. URI of the webapp needs to be specified by -U option. (For instance: -U http://localhost:8080/source).

Authentication / Authorization

All requests to /api are only allowed within localhost. There are no authentication or authorization done for these requests.

Endpoints

There are a few endpoints which provide different functionality.

/configuration

• GET – returns XML representation of configuration

• PUT – sets configuration from XML representation

  • ?reindex=true/false – specifies if the underlying data were also reindexed (refreshes some searchers and additional data structures)
  • body – XML configuration string

• /{field}

  • GET – returns specific configuration field in JSON format
  • PUT – sets specific configuration field {field}
    • body – string value of the field to set

• /authorization/reload

  • POST – reloads authorization framework

/messages

• POST – adds message to a system

  • body – JSON representation of message, example:

    {
      "tags": ["main"],
      "cssClass": "cssClass",
      "text":"test message",
      "duration":"PT10M"
    }

• DELETE

  • ?tag={t} – deletes messages with specified tag {t}

• GET – retrieves all messages in the system

  • ?tag={t} – returns all messages with specified tag {t}
  • example:

    [
      {
        "acceptedTime": "2018-06-28T17:49:01.793Z",
        "message": {
          "tags": ["main"],
          "cssClass": "cssClass",
          "text": "test message",
          "duration": "PT10M"
        },
        "expirationTime": "2018-06-28T17:59:01.793Z",
        "expired":false
      }
    ]

/projects

• GET – returns a list of projects

• POST – add project

  • body – text/plain name of the project

• /{project}

  • `DELETE – delete project
  • /indexed
    • PUT – marks project as indexed
  • /property/{field}
    • PUT – sets field {field} for the {project}
      • body – string representation of the value to set
    • GET – returns the {field} value in JSON format
  • /repositories
    • GET – returns a list of repositories for the specified {project} as JSON list
    • /type
      • GET – returns types of {project} repositories as JSON list

• /indexed

  • GET – returns a list of indexed projects as JSON list

/repositories

• /type
  • GET – return type of the repository
    • ?repository={repo_name} – repository for which to return type

/search

• GET – return search results
  • ?full={full} – full search field value to search for
  • ?def={def} – definition field value to search for
  • ?sybol={symbol} – symbol field value to search for
  • ?path={path} – file path field value to search for
  • ?hist={hist} – history field value to search for
  • ?type={type} – type of the files to search for
  • ?projects={project1}&projects={project2} – projects to search in
  • ?maxresults={max_results} – maximum number of documents whose hits will be returned
  • ?start={start} – start index from which to return results
  • example:

    {
      "time": 13,
      "resultCount": 35,
      "startDocument": 0,
      "endDocument": 0,
      "results": {
        "/opengrok/test/org/opensolaris/opengrok/history/hg-export-renamed.txt": [{
          "line": "# User Vladimir <b>Kotal</b> &lt;Vladimir.<b>Kotal</b>@oracle.com&gt;",
          "lineNumber": "19"
        },{
          "line": "# User Vladimir <b>Kotal</b> &lt;Vladimir.<b>Kotal</b>@oracle.com&gt;",
          "lineNumber":"29"
        }]
      }
    }

/stats

• GET – returns statistics in JSON format

• DELETE – deletes statistics

• /reload

  • PUT – reloads statistics (useful when configuration path to statistics changed)

/system

• /refresh
  • PUT – refreshes index searchers for specified project
    • body – text/plain project name to refresh