Default Reviewer Resource¶

Name	`default_reviewer`
URI	`/api/default-reviewers/{default_reviewer_id}/`
Description	Provides information on default reviewers for review requests. Review Board will apply any default reviewers that match the repository and any file path in an uploaded diff for new and updated review requests. A default reviewer entry can list multiple users and groups. This is useful when different groups own different parts of a codebase. Adding DefaultReviewer entries ensures that the right people will always see the review request and discussions. Default reviewers take a regular expression for the file path matching, making it flexible. As a tip, specifying `.*` for the regular expression would have this default reviewer applied to every review request on the matched repositories.
HTTP Methods	DELETE - Deletes the default reviewer entry. GET - Retrieves information on a particular default reviewer. PUT - Updates an existing default reviewer entry.
Parent Resource	Default Reviewer List Resource
Child Resources	None
Anonymous Access	Yes, if anonymous site access is enabled

Fields¶

Field	Type	Description
file_regex	String	The regular expression that is used to match files uploaded in a diff.
groups	String	A comma-separated list of group names that this default reviewer applies to matched review requests.
id	Integer	The numeric ID of the default reviewer.
name	String	The descriptive name of the entry.
repositories	String	A comma-separated list of repository IDs that this default reviewer will match against.
users	String	A comma-separated list of usernames that this default reviewer applies to matched review requests.

Links¶

Name	Method	Resource
delete	DELETE	Default Reviewer Resource
self	GET	Default Reviewer Resource
update	PUT	Default Reviewer Resource

HTTP DELETE¶

Deletes the default reviewer entry.

This will not remove any reviewers from any review requests. It will only prevent these default reviewer rules from being applied to any new review requests or updates.

Errors¶

HTTP GET¶

Retrieves information on a particular default reviewer.

Errors¶

HTTP PUT¶

Updates an existing default reviewer entry.

If the list of repositories is updated with a blank entry, then the default reviewer will apply to review requests on all repositories.

Request Parameters¶

Field	Type	Description
file_regex (optional)	String	The regular expression used to match file paths in newly uploaded diffs.
groups (optional)	String	A comma-separated list of group names.
name (optional)	String	The name of the default reviewer entry.
repositories (optional)	String	A comma-separated list of repository IDs.
users (optional)	String	A comma-separated list of usernames.

Errors¶

Examples¶

application/vnd.reviewboard.org.default-reviewer+json¶

{
  "default_reviewer": {
    "file_regex": "/docs/.*", 
    "groups": [
      {
        "href": "http://reviews.example.com/api/groups/docs/", 
        "method": "GET", 
        "title": "docs"
      }
    ], 
    "id": 1, 
    "links": {
      "delete": {
        "href": "http://reviews.example.com/api/default-reviewers/1/", 
        "method": "DELETE"
      }, 
      "self": {
        "href": "http://reviews.example.com/api/default-reviewers/1/", 
        "method": "GET"
      }, 
      "update": {
        "href": "http://reviews.example.com/api/default-reviewers/1/", 
        "method": "PUT"
      }
    }, 
    "name": "docs-team", 
    "repositories": [
      {
        "href": "http://reviews.example.com/api/repositories/1/", 
        "method": "GET", 
        "title": "Review Board SVN"
      }
    ], 
    "users": [
      {
        "href": "http://reviews.example.com/api/users/doc/", 
        "method": "GET", 
        "title": "doc"
      }
    ]
  }, 
  "stat": "ok"
}

application/vnd.reviewboard.org.default-reviewer+xml¶

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rsp>
 <stat>ok</stat>
 <default_reviewer>
  <file_regex>/docs/.*</file_regex>
  <users>
   <array>
    <item>
     <href>http://reviews.example.com/api/users/doc/</href>
     <method>GET</method>
     <title>doc</title>
    </item>
   </array>
  </users>
  <links>
   <self>
    <href>http://reviews.example.com/api/default-reviewers/1/</href>
    <method>GET</method>
   </self>
   <update>
    <href>http://reviews.example.com/api/default-reviewers/1/</href>
    <method>PUT</method>
   </update>
   <delete>
    <href>http://reviews.example.com/api/default-reviewers/1/</href>
    <method>DELETE</method>
   </delete>
  </links>
  <repositories>
   <array>
    <item>
     <href>http://reviews.example.com/api/repositories/1/</href>
     <method>GET</method>
     <title>Review Board SVN</title>
    </item>
   </array>
  </repositories>
  <groups>
   <array>
    <item>
     <href>http://reviews.example.com/api/groups/docs/</href>
     <method>GET</method>
     <title>docs</title>
    </item>
   </array>
  </groups>
  <id>1</id>
  <name>docs-team</name>
 </default_reviewer>
</rsp>