Default Reviewer List Resource¶

Added in 1.6.16

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.

Details¶

Name	`default_reviewers`
URI	`/api/default-reviewers/`
Token Policy ID	`default_reviewer`
HTTP Methods	GET - Retrieves the list of default reviewers on the server. POST - Creates a new default reviewer entry.
Parent Resource	Root List Resource
Child Resources	Default Reviewer Resource
Anonymous Access	Yes, if anonymous site access is enabled

Links¶

Name	Method	Resource
create	POST	Default Reviewer List Resource
self	GET	Default Reviewer List Resource

HTTP GET¶

Retrieves the list of default reviewers on the server.

By default, this lists all default reviewers. This list can be further filtered down through the query arguments.

Request Parameters¶

counts-onlyBoolean	If specified, a single `count` field is returned with the number of results, instead of the results themselves.
groupsString	A comma-separated list of group names that each resulting default reviewer must apply to review requests.
max-resultsInteger	The maximum number of results to return in this list. By default, this is 25. There is a hard limit of 200; if you need more than 200 results, you will need to make more than one request, using the “next” pagination link.
repositoriesString	A comma-separated list of IDs of repositories that each resulting default reviewer must match against.
startInteger	The 0-based index of the first result in the list. The start index is usually the previous start index plus the number of previous results. By default, this is 0.
usersString	A comma-separated list of usernames that each resulting default reviewer must apply to review requests.

Errors¶

100 - Does Not ExistHTTP 404 - Not Found	Object does not exist
101 - Permission DeniedHTTP 403 - Forbidden	You don’t have permission for this
103 - Not Logged InHTTP 401 - Unauthorized	You are not logged in
105 - Invalid Form DataHTTP 400 - Bad Request	One or more fields had errors
112 - OAuth2 Missing Scope ErrorHTTP 403 - Forbidden	Your OAuth2 token lacks the necessary scopes for this request.
113 - OAuth2 Access Denied ErrorHTTP 403 - Forbidden	OAuth2 token access for this resource is prohibited.

HTTP POST¶

Creates a new default reviewer entry.

Note that by default, a default reviewer will apply to review requests on all repositories, unless one or more repositories are provided in the default reviewer’s list.

Request Parameters¶

file_regexString	Required The regular expression used to match file paths in newly uploaded diffs.
nameString	Required The name of the default reviewer entry.
groupsString	A comma-separated list of group names.
repositoriesString	A comma-separated list of repository IDs.
usersString	A comma-separated list of usernames.

Errors¶

100 - Does Not ExistHTTP 404 - Not Found	Object does not exist
101 - Permission DeniedHTTP 403 - Forbidden	You don’t have permission for this
103 - Not Logged InHTTP 401 - Unauthorized	You are not logged in
105 - Invalid Form DataHTTP 400 - Bad Request	One or more fields had errors
112 - OAuth2 Missing Scope ErrorHTTP 403 - Forbidden	Your OAuth2 token lacks the necessary scopes for this request.
113 - OAuth2 Access Denied ErrorHTTP 403 - Forbidden	OAuth2 token access for this resource is prohibited.

Examples¶

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

$ curl http://reviews.example.com/api/default-reviewers/ -H "Accept: application/json"

Vary: Accept, Cookie
Item-Content-Type: application/vnd.reviewboard.org.default-reviewer+json
Content-Type: application/vnd.reviewboard.org.default-reviewers+json
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

{
  "default_reviewers": [
    {
      "file_regex": "/docs/.*", 
      "groups": [], 
      "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"
        }
      ]
    }
  ], 
  "links": {
    "create": {
      "href": "http://reviews.example.com/api/default-reviewers/", 
      "method": "POST"
    }, 
    "self": {
      "href": "http://reviews.example.com/api/default-reviewers/", 
      "method": "GET"
    }
  }, 
  "stat": "ok", 
  "total_results": 1
}