Groups
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The API for creating, changing, and getting information about groups.
.. _rest_group_create:
Create Group
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This allows you to create a new group in Bugzilla. You must be authenticated and
be in the *creategroups* group to perform this action.
**Request**
.. code-block:: text
POST /rest/group
.. code-block:: js
{
"name" : "secret-group",
"description" : "Too secret for you!",
"is_active" : true
}
Some params must be set, or an error will be thrown. The required params are
marked in **bold**.
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name type description
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**name** string A short name for this group. Must be unique. This
is not usually displayed in the user interface, except
in a few places.
**description** string A human-readable name for this group. Should be
relatively short. This is what will normally appear in
the UI as the name of the group.
user_regexp string A regular expression. Any user whose Bugzilla username
matches this regular expression will automatically be
granted membership in this group.
is_active boolean ``true`` if new group can be used for bugs, ``false``
if this is a group that will only contain users and no
bugs will be restricted to it.
icon_url string A URL pointing to a small icon used to identify the
group. This icon will show up next to users' names in
various parts of Bugzilla if they are in this group.
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**Response**
.. code-block:: js
{
"id": 22
}
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name type description
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id int ID of the newly-created group.
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.. _rest_group_update:
Update Group
------------
This allows you to update a group in Bugzilla. You must be authenticated and be
in the *creategroups* group to perform this action.
**Request**
To update a group using the group ID or name:
.. code-block:: text
PUT /rest/group/(id_or_name)
.. code-block:: js
{
"name" : "secret-group",
"description" : "Too secret for you! (updated description)",
"is_active" : false
}
You can edit a single group by passing the ID or name of the group
in the URL. To edit more than one group, you can specify addition IDs or
group names using the ``ids`` or ``names`` parameters respectively.
One of the below must be specified.
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name type description
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**id_or_name** mixed Integer group or name.
**ids** array IDs of groups to update.
**names** array Names of groups to update.
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The following parameters specify the new values you want to set for the group(s)
you are updating.
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name type description
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name string A new name for the groups. If you try to set this while
updating more than one group, an error will occur, as
group names must be unique.
description string A new description for the groups. This is what will appear
in the UI as the name of the groups.
user_regexp string A new regular expression for email. Will automatically
grant membership to these groups to anyone with an email
address that matches this perl regular expression.
is_active boolean Set if groups are active and eligible to be used for bugs.
``true`` if bugs can be restricted to this group, ``false``
otherwise.
icon_url string A URL pointing to an icon that will appear next to the name
of users who are in this group.
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**Response**
.. code-block:: js
{
"groups": [
{
"changes": {
"description": {
"added": "Too secret for you! (updated description)",
"removed": "Too secret for you!"
},
"is_active": {
"removed": "1",
"added": "0"
}
},
"id": "22"
}
]
}
``groups`` (array) Group change objects, each containing the following items:
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name type description
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id int The ID of the group that was updated.
changes object The changes that were actually done on this group. The
keys are the names of the fields that were changed, and the
values are an object with two items:
* added: (string) The values that were added to this field,
possibly a comma-and-space-separated list if multiple values
were added.
* removed: (string) The values that were removed from this
field, possibly a comma-and-space-separated list if multiple
values were removed.
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.. _rest_group_get:
Get Group
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Returns information about Bugzilla groups.
**Request**
To return information about a specific group ID or name:
.. code-block:: text
GET /rest/group/(id_or_name)
You can also return information about more than one specific group by using the
following in your query string:
.. code-block:: text
GET /rest/group?ids=1&ids=2&ids=3
GET /group?names=ProductOne&names=Product2
If neither IDs nor names are passed, and you are in the creategroups or
editusers group, then all groups will be retrieved. Otherwise, only groups
that you have bless privileges for will be returned.
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name type description
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id_or_name mixed Integer group ID or name.
ids array Integer IDs of groups.
names array Names of groups.
membership boolean Set to 1 then a list of members of the passed groups names
and IDs will be returned.
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**Response**
.. code-block:: js
{
"groups": [
{
"membership": [
{
"real_name": "Bugzilla User",
"can_login": true,
"name": "user@bugzilla.org",
"login_denied_text": "",
"id": 85,
"email_enabled": false,
"email": "user@bugzilla.org"
},
],
"is_active": true,
"description": "Test Group",
"user_regexp": "",
"is_bug_group": true,
"name": "TestGroup",
"id": 9
}
]
}
If the user is a member of the *creategroups* group they will receive
information about all groups or groups matching the criteria that they passed.
You have to be in the creategroups group unless you're requesting membership
information.
If the user is not a member of the *creategroups* group, but they are in the
"editusers" group or have bless privileges to the groups they require
membership information for, the is_active, is_bug_group and user_regexp values
are not supplied.
The return value will be an object containing group names as the keys; each
value will be an object that describes the group and has the following items:
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name type description
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id int The unique integer ID that Bugzilla uses to identify this
group. Even if the name of the group changes, this ID will
stay the same.
name string The name of the group.
description string The description of the group.
is_bug_group int Whether this group is to be used for bug reports or is
only administrative specific.
user_regexp string A regular expression that allows users to be added to
this group if their login matches.
is_active int Whether this group is currently active or not.
users array User objects that are members of this group; only
returned if the user sets the ``membership`` parameter to
1. Each user object has the items describe in the User
object below.
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User object:
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name type description
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id int The ID of the user.
real_name string The actual name of the user.
email string The email address of the user.
name string The login name of the user. Note that in some situations
this is different than their email.
can_login boolean A boolean value to indicate if the user can login into
bugzilla.
email_enabled boolean A boolean value to indicate if bug-related mail will
be sent to the user or not.
disabled_text string A text field that holds the reason for disabling a user
from logging into Bugzilla. If empty, then the user
account is enabled; otherwise it is disabled/closed.
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