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diff --git a/docs/en/rst/integrating/apis.rst b/docs/en/rst/integrating/apis.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6067c12df --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/en/rst/integrating/apis.rst @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +.. _api-list: + +APIs +#### + +Bugzilla has a number of APIs that you can call in your code to extract +information from and put information into Bugzilla. Some are deprecated and +will soon be removed. Which one to use? Short answer: the +:ref:`REST WebService API v1 <apis>` +should be used for all new integrations, but keep an eye out for version 2, +coming soon. + +The APIs currently available are as follows: + +Ad-Hoc APIs +=========== + +Various pages on Bugzilla are available in machine-parseable formats as well +as HTML. For example, bugs can be downloaded as XML, and buglists as CSV. +CSV is useful for spreadsheet import. There should be links on the HTML page +to alternate data formats where they are available. + +XML-RPC +======= + +Bugzilla has an `XML-RPC API +<http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/tip/en/html/api/Bugzilla/WebService/Server/XMLRPC.html>`_. +This will receive no further updates and will be removed in a future version +of Bugzilla. + +Endpoint: :file:`/xmlrpc.cgi` + +JSON-RPC +======== + +Bugzilla has a `JSON-RPC API +<http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/tip/en/html/api/Bugzilla/WebService/Server/JSONRPC.html>`_. +This will receive no further updates and will be removed in a future version +of Bugzilla. + +Endpoint: :file:`/jsonrpc.cgi` + +REST +==== + +Bugzilla has a :ref:`REST API <apis>` which is the currently-recommended API +for integrating with Bugzilla. The current REST API is version 1. It is stable, +and so will not be changed in a backwardly-incompatible way. + +**This is the currently-recommended API for new development.** + +Endpoint: :file:`/rest` + +BzAPI/BzAPI-Compatible REST +=========================== + +The first ever REST API for Bugzilla was implemented using an external proxy +called `BzAPI <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:BzAPI>`_. This became popular +enough that a BzAPI-compatible shim on top of the (native) REST API has been +written, to allow code which used the BzAPI API to take advantage of the +speed improvements of direct integration without needing to be rewritten. +The shim is an extension which you would need to install in your Bugzilla. + +Neither BzAPI nor this BzAPI-compatible API shim will receive any further +updates, and they should not be used for new code. + +REST v2 +======= + +The future of Bugzilla's APIs is version 2 of the REST API, which will take +the best of the current REST API and the BzAPI API. It is still under +development. |