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1{extends "idf/base-simple.html"}
2{block docclass}yui-t3{/block}
3{block body}
4<p>At the moment, this documentation is only available in English.</p>
5
6<ul>
7<li><a href="#q-overview">How to access the API?</a></li>
8<li><a href="#q-authentication">How to authenticate the queries?</a></li>
9</ul>
10
11<h2 id="q-overview">How to access the API?</h2>
12
13<p>
14The API is a REST API and you can access it by using the same URL you
15are using for the web interface but with the <code>/api/</code>
16prefix.
17</p>
18<p>
19For example, if you access a project with the
20URL <code>http://www.example.com/p/myproject/</code>, you have the
21following API URLs available:
22</p>
23<ul>
24<li><code>http://www.example.com/api/p/myproject/issues/</code>: list the open issues.</li>
25<li><code>http://www.example.com/api/p/myproject/issues/create/</code>: create a new issue.</li>
26</ul>
27<p>
28The answer you get is JSON and UTF-8 encoded.
29</p>
30
31
32<h2 id="q-authentication">How to authenticate the queries?</h2>
33
34<p>
35Authentication is really simple and is optional. If you do not
36authenticate your queries, you will have the same rights as an
37anonymous user visiting the normal web interface.
38</p>
39<p>
40To authenticate your query, you need to provide 3 parameters to your
41requests, the parameters are the followings:
42</p>
43<ul>
44<li><code>_login</code>: your login.</li>
45<li><code>_salt</code>: a random salt string.</li>
46<li><code>_hash</code>: the sha1 hash created from the concatenation of the random salt string and the API key.</li>
47</ul>
48<p>
49Please note that the 3 parameters are all starting with the underscore
50"_" character.
51</p>
52<p>
53An example of PHP code to generate the <code>_hash</code> value is:
54</p>
55<pre>
56&lt;?php
57$api_key = '1234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz';
58$_salt = rand(10000, 999999);
59$_hash = sha1($_salt.$api_key);
60echo sprintf("_salt: %s\n", $_salt);
61echo sprintf("_hash: %s\n", $_hash);
62?&gt;
63</pre>
64<p>
65If you replace the string '123...xyz' with your own API key and
66execute this script, you will have as output something like that:
67</p>
68<pre>
69_salt: 123456
70_hash: 1357924680acegikmoqsuwybdfhjlnprtvxz
71</pre>
72<p>
73Together with your login, you will be able to use those values to
74authenticate a query.
75</p>
76
77{/block} {block context}
78<p>{trans 'Here we are, just to help you.'}</p>
79<h2>{trans 'Projects'}</h2>
80<ul>{foreach $projects as $p}
81<li><a href="{url 'IDF_Views_Project::home', array($p.shortname)}">{$p}</a></li>
82{/foreach}</ul>
83{/block}
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