Programmatically create Stash GIT repos

[damon hatchett]

Is there a way to programmatically create GIT repos in Stash (running Postgres). I need to create 40 odd blank starters in a central model, I have the list of names I want to use.

[seb · Accepted solution]

Definitely.

You can use the Stash REST apis to do this. If you would like to see all the REST endpoints, please have a read through the REST apis or install the REST api browser plugin in Stash.

The REST endpoint you will want to use is as follows:

curl -u user:pass -X POST -H "Accept: application/json"  -H "Content-Type: application/json" "http://stash/projects/QA/repos/" -d '{"name": "Repository Name"}'

[nweiler2]

What does it mean if I get an error message stating the following:

"{"errors":[{"context":nul,l...]}

[seb]

It means that your request is malformed. Unfortunately it seems that Stash is not providing a good error message in this exact circumstance. If you provide the details of the request you are creating (headers, url, content) then I can look into it and fix your request and also make sure we do better error handling for this case.

[Aries McRae]

The initial post by Seb worked for me as is.

Just don't forget to put /repos/ at the end of your stash project name. eg.

http://yourstashserverhost/projects/yourstashprojectname/repos/

Initially, I only had

http://yourstashserverhost/projects/yourstashprojectname/

so it didn't work.

[nweiler2]

Edit: It now seems to be working with wget but not curl. Clearly this is just a curl issue so I think I will just drop it and use wget. Thanks again for the help.

Thanks, Seb. I actually managed to create a repo by manually creating an http request through a proxy. Here is the request that worked:

POST /rest/api/1.0/projects/[Project Name]/repos HTTP/1.1
Host: [hostname]
Connection: keep-alive
Authorization: Basic [user:pass (Base64)]
Content-Length: 29
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Origin: https://[hostname]
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.83 Safari/537.1
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3

{"slug":"test","name":"test"}

curl -k -X POST -H "Host: [hostname]" -H "Connection: keep-alive" -H "Authorization: Basic [user:pass(Base64)]" -H  "Content-Length: 29" -H "Cache-Control: max-age=0" -H "Origin: https://[hostname]" -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.83 Safari/537.1" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch" -H "Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8" -H "Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3" --data {"slug":"test", "name":"test"} https://[hostname]/rest/api/1.0/projects/[projectName]/repos/

wget --no-check-certificate --header='Host: [hostname]' --header 'Connection: keep-alive' --header 'Authorization: Basic [user:pass(Base64)]' --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --header 'Accept: application/json' --post-data='{"slug":"test", "name":"test"}' https://[hostname]/rest/api/1.0/projects/[projectName]/repos/