Search Resource¶

Added in 1.6

Provides information on users, groups and review requests.

This is the resource for the autocomplete widget for quick search. This resource helps filter for users, groups and review requests.

Details¶

Name	`search`
URI	`/api/search/`
Token Policy ID	`search`
HTTP Methods	GET - Returns information on users, groups and review requests.
Parent Resource	Search Resource
Child Resources	None

Fields¶

emailString	The user’s e-mail address
first_nameString	The user’s first name.
fullnameString	The user’s full name (first and last).
idInteger	The numeric ID of the user.
last_nameString	The user’s last name.
urlString	The URL to the user’s page on the site. This is deprecated and will be removed in a future version.
usernameString	The user’s username.

Links¶

Name	Method	Resource
self	GET	Search Resource

HTTP GET¶

Returns information on users, groups and review requests.

This is used by the autocomplete widget for quick search to get information on users, groups and review requests. This function returns users’ first name, last name and username, groups’ name and display name, and review requests’ ID and summary.

Request Parameters¶

displaynameBoolean	This field is deprecated and ignored. It will be removed in a future release of Review Board.
fullnameBoolean	Whether or not to include users whose full name includes the search text.
idInteger	A specific review request ID to search for.
max_resultsInteger	The maximum number of results to return for each type of matching object. By default, this is 25. There is a hard limit of 200.
qString	The text to search for.

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.search+json¶

$ curl https://reviews.example.com/api/search/?q=Gr -H "Accept: application/json"

HTTP 200 OK
Content-Length: 1403
Content-Type: application/vnd.reviewboard.org.search+json
ETag: 08c69e7f14a686ec2b48308cc9b160e29da1209c
Vary: Accept, Cookie
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

{
  "search": {
    "groups": [], 
    "review_requests": [], 
    "users": [
      {
        "avatar_html": null, 
        "avatar_url": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8f32aaaba6ce2ea6ef975d31e0fe4780?s=48&d=mm", 
        "avatar_urls": {
          "1x": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8f32aaaba6ce2ea6ef975d31e0fe4780?s=48&d=mm", 
          "2x": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8f32aaaba6ce2ea6ef975d31e0fe4780?s=96&d=mm", 
          "3x": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8f32aaaba6ce2ea6ef975d31e0fe4780?s=144&d=mm"
        }, 
        "email": "grumpy@example.com", 
        "first_name": "Grumpy", 
        "fullname": "Grumpy Dwarf", 
        "id": 4, 
        "is_active": true, 
        "last_name": "Dwarf", 
        "links": {
          "api_tokens": {
            "href": "https://reviews.example.com/api/users/grumpy/api-tokens/", 
            "method": "GET"
          }, 
          "archived_review_requests": {
            "href": "https://reviews.example.com/api/users/grumpy/archived-review-requests/", 
            "method": "GET"
          }, 
          "muted_review_requests": {
            "href": "https://reviews.example.com/api/users/grumpy/muted-review-requests/", 
            "method": "GET"
          }, 
          "self": {
            "href": "https://reviews.example.com/api/users/grumpy/", 
            "method": "GET"
          }, 
          "update": {
            "href": "https://reviews.example.com/api/users/grumpy/", 
            "method": "PUT"
          }, 
          "user_file_attachments": {
            "href": "https://reviews.example.com/api/users/grumpy/user-file-attachments/", 
            "method": "GET"
          }, 
          "watched": {
            "href": "https://reviews.example.com/api/users/grumpy/watched/", 
            "method": "GET"
          }
        }, 
        "url": "/users/grumpy/", 
        "username": "grumpy"
      }
    ]
  }, 
  "stat": "ok"
}