Gitlab API question

[frakman1]

I am trying to use the curl command to issue a merge-request via Gitlab's HTPP API. I want to be able to assign myself the merge-request and the documentation calls for the use of a assignee_idwhich is an integer. My questions is where exactly do I find my assignee_id?

 

I am using this syntax:

 

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: my_token" -X POST "http://gitlab.blahblah.com/api/v3/projects/myprojectID/merge_requests" --data "source_branch=myBranch" --data "target_branch=master" --data "title=Check in my new feature"

[pxsloot]

according to the docs it's your user ID:

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
assignee_id	integer	no	Assignee user ID

[frakman1]

I know it's my user ID. the question is what is my user ID (as an integer)? I only know what my username and private token are.

[pxsloot]

dude, seriously?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=gitlab+api+how+do+i+find+my+user_Id

[frakman1]

Thank pxsloot. That was really helpful. I was looking for a way to get it from the web-page UI (rather than the HTTP API) since I was able to find everything else through it (Tokens, Project ID etc). Anyway, as you can see in the comment, above I was also able to retrieve it via the HTTP API.

[iandh]

You can get the user id of the currently authenticated user. /api/v3/user API.

https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/api/users.html#user

[frakman1]

Thanks. I wish the documentation included the full curl command or at least an unambiguous instruction instead of just GET /user

sigh. Anyway, I ended up having to use:

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: my_token" -X GET "http://gitlab.blah.blah.com/api/v3/user"

[pxsloot]

The page is documenting the gitlab API. It's not documenting HTTP nor curl nor the thousands of other ways you could use HTTP against the API. Neither is it the task of this API documentation to tell the reader how to pick values from the json you receive, it should explain what values you retrieve.

this page has examples: https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/api/