Diff Context Resource¶

Added in 2.0

Provides context information for a specific diff view.

The output of this is more or less internal to the Review Board web UI. This will return the various pieces of information required to render a diff view for a given diff revision/interdiff. This is used to re-render the diff viewer without a reload when navigating between revisions.

Details¶

Name	`diff_context`
URI	`/api/review-requests/{review_request_id}/diff-context/`
Token Policy ID	`diff_context`
HTTP Methods	GET - Returns the context info for a particular revision or interdiff.
Parent Resource	Review Request Resource
Child Resources	None

Links¶

Name	Method	Resource
self	GET	Diff Context Resource

HTTP GET¶

Returns the context info for a particular revision or interdiff.

The output of this is more or less internal to the Review Board web UI. The result will be an object with several fields for the files in the diff, pagination information, and other data which is used to render the diff viewer page.

Note that in versions 2.0.0 through 2.0.6, the interdiff-revision parameter was named interdiff_revision. Because of the internal nature of this API, this was changed without adding backwards compatibility for 2.0.7.

Request Parameters¶

base-commit-idInteger	The ID of the base commit to use to generate the diff for review requests created with commit history. Only changes from after the specified commit will be included in the diff.
filenamesString	A list of case-sensitive filenames or Unix shell patterns used to filter the resulting list of files. Added in 3.0.4
interdiff-revisionInteger	A tip revision for showing interdiffs. If this is provided, the `revision` field will be the base diff. Added in 2.0.7
pageInteger	The page number for paginated diffs.
revisionInteger	Which revision of the diff to show.
tip-commit-idInteger	The ID of the tip commit to use to generate the diff for review requests created with commit history. No changes from beyond this commit will be included in the diff.

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.diff-context+json¶

$ curl https://reviews.example.com/api/review-requests/10/diff-context/ -H "Accept: application/json"

HTTP 200 OK
Content-Length: 770
Content-Type: application/vnd.reviewboard.org.diff-context+json
ETag: 5f5352b4d9ccd82ef93aa9d6953d10acec0e8265
Vary: Accept, Cookie
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

{
  "diff_context": {
    "comments_hint": {
      "diffsets_with_comments": [],
      "has_other_comments": false,
      "interdiffs_with_comments": []
    },
    "commit_history_diff": null,
    "commits": [
      {
        "author_name": "Christian Hammond",
        "commit_id": "224589cf334e9baafeac1165be5e5c04991fd65e",
        "commit_message": "modified tests\n",
        "id": 4,
        "parent_id": "e76c016e09c415d7afc4c004a8a290b3c51bff59"
      }
    ],
    "filename_patterns": [],
    "files": [],
    "num_diffs": 3,
    "pagination": {
      "current_page": 1,
      "has_next": false,
      "has_previous": false,
      "is_paginated": false,
      "page_numbers": [
        1
      ],
      "pages": 1
    },
    "revision": {
      "base_commit_id": null,
      "interdiff_revision": null,
      "is_draft_diff": true,
      "is_draft_interdiff": null,
      "is_interdiff": false,
      "latest_revision": 2,
      "revision": 3,
      "tip_commit_id": null
    }
  },
  "stat": "ok"
}