Review Board 2.0 Documentation

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This documentation covers Review Board 2.0. You can see the latest Review Board documentation or all other versions.

Session Resource

Information on the active user’s session.

This includes information on the user currently logged in through the calling client, if any. Currently, the resource links to that user’s own resource, making it easy to figure out the user’s information and any useful related resources.

Details

Name session
URI /api/session/
HTTP Methods
  • DELETE - Clears the user’s client session and the session cookie.
  • GET - Returns information on the client’s session.
Parent Resource Root List Resource
Child Resources None
Anonymous Access Yes, if anonymous site access is enabled

HTTP DELETE

Clears the user’s client session and the session cookie.

This is equivalent to logging out a user. The existing session cookie will be invalidated and will no longer be accepted.

This will return a HTTP 204 No Content.

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

HTTP GET

Returns information on the client’s session.

This currently just contains information on the currently logged-in user (if any).

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

Examples

application/vnd.reviewboard.org.session+json

$ curl http://reviews.example.com/api/session/ -H "Accept: application/json"

Vary: Accept, Cookie
Content-Type: application/vnd.reviewboard.org.session+json
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

{
  "session": {
    "authenticated": true, 
    "links": {
      "delete": {
        "href": "http://reviews.example.com/api/session/", 
        "method": "DELETE"
      }, 
      "self": {
        "href": "http://reviews.example.com/api/session/", 
        "method": "GET"
      }, 
      "user": {
        "href": "http://reviews.example.com/api/users/admin/", 
        "method": "GET", 
        "title": "admin"
      }
    }
  }, 
  "stat": "ok"
}