This page describes the group related REST endpoints. Please also take note of the general information on the REST API.

Group Endpoints

List Groups

'GET /groups/'

Lists the groups accessible by the caller. This is the same as using the ls-groups command over SSH, and accepts the same options as query parameters.

As result a map is returned that maps the group names to GroupInfo entries. The entries in the map are sorted by group name.

Request
  GET /groups/ HTTP/1.0
Response
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Disposition: attachment
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  )]}'
  {
    "Administrators": {
      "id": "6a1e70e1a88782771a91808c8af9bbb7a9871389",
      "url": "#/admin/groups/uuid-6a1e70e1a88782771a91808c8af9bbb7a9871389",
      "options": {
      },
      "description": "Gerrit Site Administrators",
      "group_id": 1,
      "owner": "Administrators",
      "owner_id": "6a1e70e1a88782771a91808c8af9bbb7a9871389",
      "created_on": "2013-02-01 09:59:32.126000000"
    },
    "Anonymous Users": {
      "id": "global%3AAnonymous-Users",
      "url": "#/admin/groups/uuid-global%3AAnonymous-Users",
      "options": {
      },
      "description": "Any user, signed-in or not",
      "group_id": 2,
      "owner": "Administrators",
      "owner_id": "6a1e70e1a88782771a91808c8af9bbb7a9871389",
      "created_on": "2013-02-01 09:59:32.126000000"
    },
    "MyProject_Committers": {
      "id": "834ec36dd5e0ed21a2ff5d7e2255da082d63bbd7",
      "url": "#/admin/groups/uuid-834ec36dd5e0ed21a2ff5d7e2255da082d63bbd7",
      "options": {
        "visible_to_all": true,
      },
      "group_id": 6,
      "owner": "MyProject_Committers",
      "owner_id": "834ec36dd5e0ed21a2ff5d7e2255da082d63bbd7",
      "created_on": "2013-02-01 09:59:32.126000000"
    },
    "Non-Interactive Users": {
      "id": "5057f3cbd3519d6ab69364429a89ffdffba50f73",
      "url": "#/admin/groups/uuid-5057f3cbd3519d6ab69364429a89ffdffba50f73",
      "options": {
      },
      "description": "Users who perform batch actions on Gerrit",
      "group_id": 4,
      "owner": "Administrators",
      "owner_id": "6a1e70e1a88782771a91808c8af9bbb7a9871389",
      "created_on": "2013-02-01 09:59:32.126000000"
    },
    "Project Owners": {
      "id": "global%3AProject-Owners",
      "url": "#/admin/groups/uuid-global%3AProject-Owners",
      "options": {
      },
      "description": "Any owner of the project",
      "group_id": 5,
      "owner": "Administrators",
      "owner_id": "6a1e70e1a88782771a91808c8af9bbb7a9871389",
      "created_on": "2013-02-01 09:59:32.126000000"
    },
    "Registered Users": {
      "id": "global%3ARegistered-Users",
      "url": "#/admin/groups/uuid-global%3ARegistered-Users",
      "options": {
      },
      "description": "Any signed-in user",
      "group_id": 3,
      "owner": "Administrators",
      "owner_id": "6a1e70e1a88782771a91808c8af9bbb7a9871389",
      "created_on": "2013-02-01 09:59:32.126000000"
    }
  }
Get all groups
GET /groups/ HTTP/1.0

Group Options

Additional fields can be obtained by adding o parameters, each option requires more lookups and slows down the query response time to the client so they are generally disabled by default. Optional fields are:

  • INCLUDES: include list of direct subgroups.

  • MEMBERS: include list of direct group members.

Find groups that are owned by another group

By setting ownedBy and specifying the {group-id} of another group, it is possible to find all the groups for which the owning group is the given group.

Request
  GET /groups/?ownedBy=7ca042f4d5847936fcb90ca91057673157fd06fc HTTP/1.0
Response
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Disposition: attachment
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  )]}'
  {
    "MyProject-Committers": {
      "id": "9999c971bb4ab872aab759d8c49833ee6b9ff320",
      "url": "#/admin/groups/uuid-9999c971bb4ab872aab759d8c49833ee6b9ff320",
      "options": {
        "visible_to_all": true
      },
      "description":"contains all committers for MyProject",
      "group_id": 551,
      "owner": "MyProject-Owners",
      "owner_id": "7ca042f4d5847936fcb90ca91057673157fd06fc",
      "created_on": "2013-02-01 09:59:32.126000000"
    }
  }

Check if a group is owned by the calling user

By setting the option owned and specifying a group to inspect with the option group/g, it is possible to find out if this group is owned by the calling user.

[NOTE] Earlier the group/g option was named query/q. Using query/q still works, but this option is deprecated and may be removed in future. Hence all users should be adapted to use group/g instead.

Request
  GET /groups/?owned&q=MyProject-Committers HTTP/1.0

If the group is owned by the calling user, the returned map contains this group. If the calling user doesn’t own this group an empty map is returned.

Response
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Disposition: attachment
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  )]}'
  {
    "MyProject-Committers": {
      "id": "9999c971bb4ab872aab759d8c49833ee6b9ff320",
      "url": "#/admin/groups/uuid-9999c971bb4ab872aab759d8c49833ee6b9ff320",
      "options": {
        "visible_to_all": true
      },
      "description":"contains all committers for MyProject",
      "group_id": 551,
      "owner": "MyProject-Owners",
      "owner_id": "7ca042f4d5847936fcb90ca91057673157fd06fc",
      "created_on": "2013-02-01 09:59:32.126000000"
    }
  }

Group Limit

The /groups/ URL also accepts a limit integer in the n parameter. This limits the results to show n groups.

Query the first 25 groups in group list.

  GET /groups/?n=25 HTTP/1.0

The /groups/ URL also accepts a start integer in the S parameter. The results will skip S groups from group list.

Query 25 groups starting from index 50.

  GET /groups/?n=25&S=50 HTTP/1.0

Suggest Group

The suggest or s option indicates a user-entered string that should be auto-completed to group names. If this option is set and n is not set, then n defaults to 10.

When using this option, the project or p option can be used to name the current project, to allow context-dependent suggestions.

Not compatible with visible-to-all, owned, user, match, group, or S. (Attempts to use one of those options combined with suggest will error out.)

Request
  GET /groups/?suggest=ad&p=All-Projects HTTP/1.0
Response
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Disposition: attachment
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  )]}'
  {
    "Administrators": {
      "url": "#/admin/groups/uuid-59b92f35489e62c80d1ab1bf0c2d17843038df8b",
      "options": {},
      "description": "Gerrit Site Administrators",
      "group_id": 1,
      "owner": "Administrators",
      "owner_id": "59b92f35489e62c80d1ab1bf0c2d17843038df8b",
      "created_on": "2013-02-01 09:59:32.126000000",
      "id": "59b92f35489e62c80d1ab1bf0c2d17843038df8b"
    }
  }
Regex(r)

Limit the results to those groups that match the specified regex.

Boundary matchers '^' and '$' are implicit. For example: the regex 'test.*' will match any groups that start with 'test' and regex '.*test' will match any group that end with 'test'.

The match is case sensitive.

List all groups that match regex test.*group:

Request
  GET /groups/?r=test.*group HTTP/1.0
Response
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Disposition: attachment
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  )]}'
  {
    "test/some-group": {
      "url": "#/admin/groups/uuid-59b92f35489e62c80d1ab1bf0c2d17843038df8b",
      "options": {},
      "description": "Gerrit Site Administrators",
      "group_id": 1,
      "owner": "Administrators",
      "owner_id": "59b92f35489e62c80d1ab1bf0c2d17843038df8b",
      "created_on": "2013-02-01 09:59:32.126000000",
      "id": "59b92f35489e62c80d1ab1bf0c2d17843038df8b"
    }
    "test/some-other-group": {
      "url": "#/admin/groups/uuid-99b92f35489e62c80d1ab1bf0c2d17843038df8b",
      "options": {},
      "description": "Gerrit Site Administrators",
      "group_id": 1,
      "owner": "Administrators",
      "owner_id": "99b92f35489e62c80d1ab1bf0c2d17843038df8b",
      "created_on": "2014-02-01 09:59:32.126000000",
      "id": "99b92f35489e62c80d1ab1bf0c2d17843038df8b"
    }
  }
Substring(m)

Limit the results to those groups that match the specified substring.

The match is case insensitive.

List all groups that match substring test/:

Request
  GET /groups/?m=test%2F HTTP/1.0
Response
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Disposition: attachment
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  )]}'
  {
    "test/test": {
      "url": "#/admin/groups/uuid-786a95e85f9a2223a96545f10003f396aba871f2",
      "options": {},
      "group_id": 15,
      "owner": "test/test",
      "owner_id": "786a95e85f9a2223a96545f10003f396aba871f2",
      "created_on": "2017-07-11 13:56:24.000000000",
      "id": "786a95e85f9a2223a96545f10003f396aba871f2"
    }
  }

Query Groups

'GET /groups/?query2=<query>'

Queries internal groups visible to the caller. The query string must be provided by the query2 parameter. The start and limit parameters can be used to skip/limit results.

As result a list of GroupInfo entities is returned.

[NOTE] query2 is a temporary name and in future this option may be renamed to query. query2 was chosen to maintain backwards compatibility with the deprecated query parameter on the List Groups endpoint.

Request
  GET /groups/?query2=inname:test HTTP/1.0
Response
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Disposition: attachment
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  )]}'
  [
    {
      "url": "#/admin/groups/uuid-68236a40ca78de8be630312d8ba50250bc5638ae",
      "options": {},
      "description": "Group for running tests on MyProject",
      "group_id": 20,
      "owner": "MyProject-Test-Group",
      "owner_id": "59b92f35489e62c80d1ab1bf0c2d17843038df8b",
      "created_on": "2013-02-01 09:59:32.126000000",
      "id": "68236a40ca78de8be630312d8ba50250bc5638ae"
    },
    {
      "url": "#/admin/groups/uuid-99a534526313324a2667025c3f4e089199b736aa",
      "options": {},
      "description": "Testers for ProjectX",
      "group_id": 17,
      "owner": "ProjectX-Testers",
      "owner_id": "59b92f35489e62c80d1ab1bf0c2d17843038df8b",
      "created_on": "2013-02-01 09:59:32.126000000",
      "id": "99a534526313324a2667025c3f4e089199b736aa"
    }
  ]

If the number of groups matching the query exceeds either the internal limit or a supplied limit query parameter, the last group object has a _more_groups: true JSON field set.

Group Limit

The /groups/?query2=<query> URL also accepts a limit integer in the limit parameter. This limits the results to limit groups.

Query the first 25 groups in group list.

  GET /groups/?query2=<query>&limit=25 HTTP/1.0

The /groups/ URL also accepts a start integer in the start parameter. The results will skip start groups from group list.

Query 25 groups starting from index 50.

  GET /groups/?query2=<query>&limit=25&start=50 HTTP/1.0

Group Options

Additional fields can be obtained by adding o parameters. Each option requires more lookups and slows down the query response time to the client so they are generally disabled by default. The supported fields are described in the context of the List Groups REST endpoint.

Get Group

'GET /groups/{group-id}'

Retrieves a group.

Request
  GET /groups/6a1e70e1a88782771a91808c8af9bbb7a9871389 HTTP/1.0

As response a GroupInfo entity is returned that describes the group.

Response
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Disposition: attachment
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  )]}'
  {
    "id": "6a1e70e1a88782771a91808c8af9bbb7a9871389",
    "name": "Administrators",
    "url": "#/admin/groups/uuid-6a1e70e1a88782771a91808c8af9bbb7a9871389",
    "options": {
    },
    "description": "Gerrit Site Administrators",
    "group_id": 1,
    "owner": "Administrators",
    "owner_id": "6a1e70e1a88782771a91808c8af9bbb7a9871389",
    "created_on": "2013-02-01 09:59:32.126000000"
  }

Create Group

'PUT /groups/{group-name}'

Creates a new Gerrit internal group.

In the request body additional data for the group can be provided as GroupInput.

Request
  PUT /groups/MyProject-Committers HTTP/1.0
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  {
    "description": "contains all committers for MyProject",
    "visible_to_all": true,
    "owner": "MyProject-Owners",
    "owner_id": "7ca042f4d5847936fcb90ca91057673157fd06fc"
  }

As response the GroupInfo entity is returned that describes the created group.

Response
  HTTP/1.1 201 Created
  Content-Disposition: attachment
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  )]}'
  {
    "id": "9999c971bb4ab872aab759d8c49833ee6b9ff320",
    "name": "MyProject-Committers",
    "url": "#/admin/groups/uuid-9999c971bb4ab872aab759d8c49833ee6b9ff320",
    "options": {
      "visible_to_all": true
    },
    "description":"contains all committers for MyProject",
    "group_id": 551,
    "owner": "MyProject-Owners",
    "owner_id": "7ca042f4d5847936fcb90ca91057673157fd06fc",
    "created_on": "2013-02-01 09:59:32.126000000"
  }

If the group creation fails because the name is already in use, or the UUID was specified and the UUID is already in use, the response is “409 Conflict”.

Get Group Detail

'GET /groups/{group-id}/detail'

Retrieves a group with the direct members and the directly included groups.

Request
  GET /groups/6a1e70e1a88782771a91808c8af9bbb7a9871389/detail HTTP/1.0

As response a GroupInfo entity is returned that describes the group.

Response
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Disposition: attachment
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  )]}'
  {
    "id": "6a1e70e1a88782771a91808c8af9bbb7a9871389",
    "name": "Administrators",
    "url": "#/admin/groups/uuid-6a1e70e1a88782771a91808c8af9bbb7a9871389",
    "options": {
    },
    "description": "Gerrit Site Administrators",
    "group_id": 1,
    "owner": "Administrators",
    "owner_id": "6a1e70e1a88782771a91808c8af9bbb7a9871389",
    "created_on": "2013-02-01 09:59:32.126000000",
    "members": [
      {
        "_account_id": 1000097,
        "name": "Jane Roe",
        "email": "jane.roe@example.com",
        "username": "jane"
      },
      {
        "_account_id": 1000096,
        "name": "John Doe",
        "email": "john.doe@example.com"
        "username": "john"
      }
    ],
    "includes": []
  }

Get Group Name

'GET /groups/{group-id}/name'

Retrieves the name of a group.

Request
  GET /groups/9999c971bb4ab872aab759d8c49833ee6b9ff320/name HTTP/1.0
Response
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Disposition: attachment
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  )]}'
  "MyProject-Committers"

Rename Group

'PUT /groups/{group-id}/name'

Renames a Gerrit internal group.

The new group name must be provided in the request body.

This endpoint is only allowed for Gerrit internal groups; attempting to call on a non-internal group will return 405 Method Not Allowed.

Request
  PUT /groups/MyProject-Committers/name HTTP/1.0
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  {
    "name": "My-Project-Committers"
  }

As response the new group name is returned.

Response
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Disposition: attachment
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  )]}'
  "My-Project-Committers"

If renaming the group fails because the new name is already in use the response is “409 Conflict”.

Get Group Description

'GET /groups/{group-id}/description'

Retrieves the description of a group.

This endpoint is only allowed for Gerrit internal groups; attempting to call on a non-internal group will return 405 Method Not Allowed.

Request
  GET /groups/9999c971bb4ab872aab759d8c49833ee6b9ff320/description HTTP/1.0
Response
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Disposition: attachment
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  )]}'
  "contains all committers for MyProject"

If the group does not have a description an empty string is returned.

Set Group Description

'PUT /groups/{group-id}/description'

Sets the description of a Gerrit internal group.

The new group description must be provided in the request body.

This endpoint is only allowed for Gerrit internal groups; attempting to call on a non-internal group will return 405 Method Not Allowed.

Request
  PUT /groups/9999c971bb4ab872aab759d8c49833ee6b9ff320/description HTTP/1.0
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  {
    "description": "The committers of MyProject."
  }

As response the new group description is returned.

Response
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Disposition: attachment
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  )]}'
  "The committers of MyProject."

If the description was deleted the response is “204 No Content”.

Delete Group Description

'DELETE /groups/{group-id}/description'

Deletes the description of a Gerrit internal group.

Request
  DELETE /groups/9999c971bb4ab872aab759d8c49833ee6b9ff320/description HTTP/1.0
Response
  HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

Get Group Options

'GET /groups/{group-id}/options'

Retrieves the options of a group.

Request
  GET /groups/9999c971bb4ab872aab759d8c49833ee6b9ff320/options HTTP/1.0

As response a GroupOptionsInfo entity is returned that describes the options of the group.

Response
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Disposition: attachment
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  )]}'
  {
    "visible_to_all": true
  }

Set Group Options

'PUT /groups/{group-id}/options'

Sets the options of a Gerrit internal group.

The new group options must be provided in the request body as a GroupOptionsInput entity.

This endpoint is only allowed for Gerrit internal groups; attempting to call on a non-internal group will return 405 Method Not Allowed.

Request
  PUT /groups/9999c971bb4ab872aab759d8c49833ee6b9ff320/options HTTP/1.0
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  {
    "visible_to_all": true
  }

As response the new group options are returned as a GroupOptionsInfo entity.

Response
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Disposition: attachment
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  )]}'
  {
    "visible_to_all": true
  }

Get Group Owner

'GET /groups/{group-id}/owner'

Retrieves the owner group of a Gerrit internal group.

This endpoint is only allowed for Gerrit internal groups; attempting to call on a non-internal group will return 405 Method Not Allowed.

Request
  GET /groups/9999c971bb4ab872aab759d8c49833ee6b9ff320/owner HTTP/1.0

As response a GroupInfo entity is returned that describes the owner group.

Response
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Disposition: attachment
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  )]}'
  {
    "id": "6a1e70e1a88782771a91808c8af9bbb7a9871389",
    "name": "Administrators",
    "url": "#/admin/groups/uuid-6a1e70e1a88782771a91808c8af9bbb7a9871389",
    "options": {
    },
    "description": "Gerrit Site Administrators",
    "group_id": 1,
    "owner": "Administrators",
    "owner_id": "6a1e70e1a88782771a91808c8af9bbb7a9871389",
    "created_on": "2013-02-01 09:59:32.126000000"
  }

Set Group Owner

'PUT /groups/{group-id}/owner'

Sets the owner group of a Gerrit internal group.

The new owner group must be provided in the request body.

The new owner can be specified by name, by group UUID or by the legacy numeric group ID.

This endpoint is only allowed for Gerrit internal groups; attempting to call on a non-internal group will return 405 Method Not Allowed.

Request
  PUT /groups/9999c971bb4ab872aab759d8c49833ee6b9ff320/owner HTTP/1.0
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  {
    "owner": "6a1e70e1a88782771a91808c8af9bbb7a9871389"
  }

As response a GroupInfo entity is returned that describes the new owner group.

Response
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Disposition: attachment
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  )]}'
  {
    "id": "6a1e70e1a88782771a91808c8af9bbb7a9871389",
    "name": "Administrators",
    "url": "#/admin/groups/uuid-6a1e70e1a88782771a91808c8af9bbb7a9871389",
    "options": {
    },
    "description": "Gerrit Site Administrators",
    "group_id": 1,
    "owner": "Administrators",
    "owner_id": "6a1e70e1a88782771a91808c8af9bbb7a9871389",
    "created_on": "2013-02-01 09:59:32.126000000"
  }

Get Audit Log

'GET /groups/{group-id}/log.audit'

Gets the audit log of a Gerrit internal group.

This endpoint is only allowed for Gerrit internal groups; attempting to call on a non-internal group will return 405 Method Not Allowed.

Request
  GET /groups/9999c971bb4ab872aab759d8c49833ee6b9ff320/log.audit HTTP/1.0

As response a list of GroupAuditEventInfo entities is returned that describes the audit events of the group. The returned audit events are sorted by date in reverse order so that the newest audit event comes first.

Response
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Disposition: attachment
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  )]}'
  [
    {
      "member": {
        "url": "#/admin/groups/uuid-fdda826a0815859ab48d22a05a43472f0f55f89a",
        "options": {},
        "group_id": 3,
        "owner": "Administrators",
        "owner_id": "e56678641565e7f59dd5c6878f5bcbc842bf150a",
        "created_on": "2013-02-01 09:59:32.126000000",
        "id": "fdda826a0815859ab48d22a05a43472f0f55f89a",
        "name": "MyGroup"
      },
      "type": "REMOVE_GROUP",
      "user": {
        "_account_id": 1000000,
        "name": "Administrator",
        "email": "admin@example.com",
        "username": "admin"
      },
      "date": "2015-07-03 09:22:26.348000000"
    },
    {
      "member": {
        "url": "#/admin/groups/uuid-fdda826a0815859ab48d22a05a43472f0f55f89a",
        "options": {},
        "group_id": 3,
        "owner": "Administrators",
        "owner_id": "e56678641565e7f59dd5c6878f5bcbc842bf150a",
        "created_on": "2013-02-01 09:59:32.126000000",
        "id": "fdda826a0815859ab48d22a05a43472f0f55f89a",
        "name": "MyGroup"
      },
      "type": "ADD_GROUP",
      "user": {
        "_account_id": 1000000,
        "name": "Administrator",
        "email": "admin@example.com",
        "username": "admin"
      },
      "date": "2015-07-03 08:43:36.592000000"
    },
    {
      "member": {
        "_account_id": 1000000,
        "name": "Administrator",
        "email": "admin@example.com",
        "username": "admin"
      },
      "type": "ADD_USER",
      "user": {
        "_account_id": 1000001,
        "name": "John Doe",
        "email": "john.doe@example.com",
        "username": "jdoe"
      },
      "date": "2015-07-01 13:36:36.602000000"
    }
  ]

Index Group

'POST /groups/{group-id}/index'

Adds or updates the internal group in the secondary index.

Request
  POST /groups/fdda826a0815859ab48d22a05a43472f0f55f89a/index HTTP/1.0
Response
  HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

Group Member Endpoints

List Group Members

'GET /groups/{group-id}/members/'

Lists the direct members of a Gerrit internal group.

As result a list of detailed AccountInfo entries is returned. The entries in the list are sorted by full name, preferred email and id.

This endpoint is only allowed for Gerrit internal groups; attempting to call on a non-internal group will return 405 Method Not Allowed.

Request
  GET /groups/834ec36dd5e0ed21a2ff5d7e2255da082d63bbd7/members/ HTTP/1.0
Response
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Disposition: attachment
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  )]}'
  [
    {
      "_account_id": 1000097,
      "name": "Jane Roe",
      "email": "jane.roe@example.com",
      "username": "jane"
    },
    {
      "_account_id": 1000096,
      "name": "John Doe",
      "email": "john.doe@example.com",
      "username": "john"
    }
  ]
Get all members of the 'Administrators' group (normally group id = 1)
GET /groups/1/members/ HTTP/1.0

To resolve the included groups of a group recursively and to list all members the parameter recursive can be set.

Members from included external groups and from included groups which are not visible to the calling user are ignored.

Request
  GET /groups/834ec36dd5e0ed21a2ff5d7e2255da082d63bbd7/members/?recursive HTTP/1.0
Response
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Disposition: attachment
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  )]}'
  [
    {
      "_account_id": 1000097,
      "name": "Jane Roe",
      "email": "jane.roe@example.com",
      "username": "jane"
    },
    {
      "_account_id": 1000096,
      "name": "John Doe",
      "email": "john.doe@example.com",
      "username": "john"
    },
    {
      "_account_id": 1000098,
      "name": "Richard Roe",
      "email": "richard.roe@example.com",
      "username": "rroe"
    }
  ]

Get Group Member

'GET /groups/{group-id}/members/{account-id}'

Retrieves a group member.

Request
  GET /groups/834ec36dd5e0ed21a2ff5d7e2255da082d63bbd7/members/1000096 HTTP/1.0

As response a detailed AccountInfo entity is returned that describes the group member.

Response
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Disposition: attachment
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  )]}'
  {
    "_account_id": 1000096,
    "name": "John Doe",
    "email": "john.doe@example.com",
    "username": "john"
  }

Add Group Member

'PUT /groups/{group-id}/members/{account-id}'

Adds a user as member to a Gerrit internal group.

This endpoint is only allowed for Gerrit internal groups; attempting to call on a non-internal group will return 405 Method Not Allowed.

Request
  PUT /groups/MyProject-Committers/members/John%20Doe HTTP/1.0

As response a detailed AccountInfo entity is returned that describes the group member.

Response
  HTTP/1.1 201 Created
  Content-Disposition: attachment
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  )]}'
  {
    "_account_id": 1000037,
    "name": "John Doe",
    "email": "john.doe@example.com",
    "username": "john"
  }

The request also succeeds if the user is already a member of this group, but then the HTTP response code is 200 OK.

Add Group Members

'POST /groups/{group-id}/members'

OR

'POST /groups/{group-id}/members.add'

Adds one or several users to a Gerrit internal group.

The users to be added to the group must be provided in the request body as a MembersInput entity.

Request
  POST /groups/MyProject-Committers/members.add HTTP/1.0
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  {
    "members": [
      "jane.roe@example.com",
      "john.doe@example.com"
    ]
  }

As response a list of detailed AccountInfo entities is returned that describes the group members that were specified in the MembersInput. An AccountInfo entity is returned for each user specified in the input, independently of whether the user was newly added to the group or whether the user was already a member of the group.

Response
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Disposition: attachment
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  )]}'
  [
    {
      "_account_id": 1000057,
      "name": "Jane Roe",
      "email": "jane.roe@example.com",
      "username": "jane"
    },
    {
      "_account_id": 1000037,
      "name": "John Doe",
      "email": "john.doe@example.com",
      "username": "john"
    }
  ]

Remove Group Member

'DELETE /groups/{group-id}/members/{account-id}'

Removes a user from a Gerrit internal group.

This endpoint is only allowed for Gerrit internal groups; attempting to call on a non-internal group will return 405 Method Not Allowed.

Request
  DELETE /groups/MyProject-Committers/members/John%20Doe HTTP/1.0
Response
  HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

Remove Group Members

'POST /groups/{group-id}/members.delete'

Removes one or several users from a Gerrit internal group.

The users to be removed from the group must be provided in the request body as a MembersInput entity.

Request
  POST /groups/MyProject-Committers/members.delete HTTP/1.0
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  {
    "members": [
      "jane.roe@example.com",
      "john.doe@example.com"
    ]
  }
Response
  HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

Subgroup Endpoints

List Subgroups

'GET /groups/{group-id}/groups/'

Lists the direct subgroups of a group.

As result a list of GroupInfo entries is returned. The entries in the list are sorted by group name and UUID.

This endpoint is only allowed for Gerrit internal groups; attempting to call on a non-internal group will return 405 Method Not Allowed.

Request
  GET /groups/834ec36dd5e0ed21a2ff5d7e2255da082d63bbd7/groups/ HTTP/1.0
Response
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Disposition: attachment
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  )]}'
  [
    {
      "id": "7ca042f4d5847936fcb90ca91057673157fd06fc",
      "name": "MyProject-Verifiers",
      "url": "#/admin/groups/uuid-7ca042f4d5847936fcb90ca91057673157fd06fc",
      "options": {
      },
      "group_id": 38,
      "owner": "MyProject-Verifiers",
      "owner_id": "7ca042f4d5847936fcb90ca91057673157fd06fc",
      "created_on": "2013-02-01 09:59:32.126000000"
    }
  ]

Get Subgroup

'GET /groups/{group-id}/groups/{group-id}'

Retrieves a subgroup.

Request
  GET /groups/834ec36dd5e0ed21a2ff5d7e2255da082d63bbd7/groups/7ca042f4d5847936fcb90ca91057673157fd06fc HTTP/1.0

As response a GroupInfo entity is returned that describes the subgroup.

Response
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Disposition: attachment
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  )]}'
  {
    "id": "7ca042f4d5847936fcb90ca91057673157fd06fc",
    "name": "MyProject-Verifiers",
    "url": "#/admin/groups/uuid-7ca042f4d5847936fcb90ca91057673157fd06fc",
    "options": {
    },
    "group_id": 38,
    "owner": "Administrators",
    "owner_id": "6a1e70e1a88782771a91808c8af9bbb7a9871389",
    "created_on": "2013-02-01 09:59:32.126000000"
  }

Add Subgroup

'PUT /groups/{group-id}/groups/{group-id}'

Adds an internal or external group as subgroup to a Gerrit internal group. External groups must be specified using the UUID.

This endpoint is only allowed for Gerrit internal groups; attempting to call on a non-internal group will return 405 Method Not Allowed.

Request
  PUT /groups/MyProject-Committers/groups/MyGroup HTTP/1.0

As response a GroupInfo entity is returned that describes the subgroup.

Response
  HTTP/1.1 201 Created
  Content-Disposition: attachment
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  )]}'
  {
    "id": "6a1e70e1a88782771a91808c8af9bbb7a9871389",
    "name": "MyGroup",
    "url": "#/admin/groups/uuid-6a1e70e1a88782771a91808c8af9bbb7a9871389",
    "options": {
    },
    "group_id": 8,
    "owner": "Administrators",
    "owner_id": "6a1e70e1a88782771a91808c8af9bbb7a9871389",
    "created_on": "2013-02-01 09:59:32.126000000"
  }

The request also succeeds if the group is already a subgroup of this group.

Add Subgroups

'POST /groups/{group-id}/groups'

OR

'POST /groups/{group-id}/groups.add'

Adds one or several groups as subgroups to a Gerrit internal group.

The subgroups to be added must be provided in the request body as a GroupsInput entity.

Request
  POST /groups/MyProject-Committers/groups.add HTTP/1.0
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  {
    "groups": [
      "MyGroup",
      "MyOtherGroup"
    ]
  }

As response a list of GroupInfo entities is returned that describes the groups that were specified in the GroupsInput. A GroupInfo entity is returned for each group specified in the input, independently of whether the group was newly added as subgroup or whether the group was already a subgroup of the group.

Response
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Disposition: attachment
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  )]}'
  [
    {
      "id": "6a1e70e1a88782771a91808c8af9bbb7a9871389",
      "name": "MyGroup",
      "url": "#/admin/groups/uuid-6a1e70e1a88782771a91808c8af9bbb7a9871389",
      "options": {
      },
      "group_id": 8,
      "owner": "Administrators",
      "owner_id": "6a1e70e1a88782771a91808c8af9bbb7a9871389",
      "created_on": "2013-02-01 09:59:32.126000000"
    },
    {
      "id": "5057f3cbd3519d6ab69364429a89ffdffba50f73",
      "name": "MyOtherGroup",
      "url": "#/admin/groups/uuid-5057f3cbd3519d6ab69364429a89ffdffba50f73",
      "options": {
      },
      "group_id": 10,
      "owner": "MyOtherGroup",
      "owner_id": "5057f3cbd3519d6ab69364429a89ffdffba50f73",
      "created_on": "2013-02-01 09:59:32.126000000"
    }
  ]

Remove Subgroup

'DELETE /groups/{group-id}/groups/{group-id}'

Removes a subgroup from a Gerrit internal group.

This endpoint is only allowed for Gerrit internal groups; attempting to call on a non-internal group will return 405 Method Not Allowed.

Request
  DELETE /groups/MyProject-Committers/groups/MyGroup HTTP/1.0
Response
  HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

Remove Subgroups

'POST /groups/{group-id}/groups.delete'

Removes one or several subgroups from a Gerrit internal group.

The subgroups to be removed must be provided in the request body as a GroupsInput entity.

Request
  POST /groups/MyProject-Committers/groups.delete HTTP/1.0
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

  {
    "groups": [
      "MyGroup",
      "MyOtherGroup"
    ]
  }
Response
  HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

IDs

{group-id}

Identifier for a group.

This can be:

  • the UUID of the group

  • the legacy numeric ID of the group

  • the name of the group if it is unique

{group-name}

Group name that uniquely identifies one group.

JSON Entities

GroupAuditEventInfo

The GroupAuditEventInfo entity contains information about an audit event of a group.

Field Name Description

member

The group member that is added/removed. If type is ADD_USER or REMOVE_USER the member is returned as detailed AccountInfo entity, if type is ADD_GROUP or REMOVE_GROUP the member is returned as GroupInfo entity. Note that the name in GroupInfo will not be set if the member group is not available.

type

The event type, can be: ADD_USER, REMOVE_USER, ADD_GROUP or REMOVE_GROUP.

ADD_USER: A user was added as member to the group.

REMOVE_USER: A user member was removed from the group.

ADD_GROUP: A group was included as member in the group.

REMOVE_GROUP: An included group was removed from the group.

user

The user that did the add/remove as detailed AccountInfo entity.

date

The timestamp of the event.

GroupInfo

The GroupInfo entity contains information about a group. This can be a Gerrit internal group, or an external group that is known to Gerrit.

Field Name Description

id

The URL encoded UUID of the group.

name

optional, not set if returned in a map where the group name is used as map key

The name of the group.
For external groups the group name is missing if there is no group backend that can resolve the group UUID. E.g. this can happen when a plugin that provided a group backend was uninstalled.

url

optional

URL to information about the group. Typically a URL to a web page that permits users to apply to join the group, or manage their membership.

options

Options of the group

description

only for internal groups

The description of the group.

group_id

only for internal groups

The numeric ID of the group.

owner

only for internal groups

The name of the owner group.

owner_id

only for internal groups

The URL encoded UUID of the owner group.

created_on

only for internal groups

The timestamp of when the group was created.

_more_groups

optional, only for internal groups, not set if false

Whether the query would deliver more results if not limited.
Only set on the last group that is returned by a group query.

members

optional, only for internal groups

A list of AccountInfo entities describing the direct members.
Only set if members are requested.

includes

optional, only for internal groups

A list of GroupInfo entities describing the direct subgroups.
Only set if subgroups are requested.

The type of a group can be deduced from the group’s UUID:

UUID matches "^[0-9a-f]{40}$"

Gerrit internal group

UUID starts with "global:"

Gerrit system group

UUID starts with "ldap:"

LDAP group

UUID starts with "<prefix>:"

other external group

GroupInput

The 'GroupInput' entity contains information for the creation of a new internal group.

Field Name Description

name

optional

The name of the group (not encoded).
If set, must match the group name in the URL.

uuid

optional

The UUID of the group.

description

optional

The description of the group.

visible_to_all

optional

Whether the group is visible to all registered users.
false if not set.

owner_id

optional

The URL encoded ID of the owner group.
This can be a group UUID, a legacy numeric group ID or a unique group name.
If not set, the new group will be self-owned.

members

optional

The initial members in a list of
account ids.

GroupOptionsInfo

Options of the group.

Field Name Description

visible_to_all

not set if false

Whether the group is visible to all registered users.

GroupOptionsInput

New options for a group.

Field Name Description

visible_to_all

not set if false

Whether the group is visible to all registered users.

GroupsInput

The GroupsInput entity contains information about groups that should be included into a group or that should be deleted from a group.

Field Name Description

_one_group

optional

The id of one group that should be included or deleted.

groups

optional

A list of group ids that identify the groups that should be included or deleted.

MembersInput

The MembersInput entity contains information about accounts that should be added as members to a group or that should be deleted from the group.

Field Name Description

_one_member

optional

The id of one account that should be added or deleted.

members

optional

A list of account ids that identify the accounts that should be added or deleted.

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