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rest api to retrieve content of file

Asim Malik

I am trying to migrate code that we wrote against gitlab to stash (3.1), one of these is a rest request to get the content as a file.

https://{my-host}/rest/api/1.0/projects/CLOUD/repos/myrepo/browse/package.json

This return the content as a set of lines:

{
  "lines": [
   {
      "text": "{"
    },
    {
      "text": "  \"name\": \"my-project\","
    }
  ],
  "start": 0,
  "size": 3,
  "isLastPage": false
}

Is there a way to return the raw contents(text, base64) of the file instead of having text-text lines?

Also i can't tell from the rest api how to create or update just a file.

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Jeff Thomas

You may not be able to get the raw contents of the file from the REST API, but it's available if you tack on ?raw to the full URL of the file. For example, hitting https://{my-host}/projects/CLOUD/repos/myrepo/browse/package.json?raw should return the raw contents of that file.

David Maltby

Thanks! Spent a lot of time trying to use the REST API to get the raw file, until I read this post.

Sudeep Yadav

Just use 'raw' in place of 'browse' and it should work.

https://{my-host}/rest/api/1.0/projects/CLOUD/repos/myrepo/raw/package.json

unknown

Hi @Sudeep Yadav the above is downloading package.json. It isnt fetching the content of package.json

Sudeep Yadav

@[deleted]- Can you share the details?

unknown

Hi Yes. In a groovy script I am trying to get the rawFile package.json in a variable like below:

``` def bitbucketResponse = "https://bitbucket_url/rest/api/1.0/projects/{projects}/repos/{repos}/raw/{path}/package.json".toURL().getText(requestProperties: [Accept: 'application/json', Authorization: \"Basic \${auth}\"])```

so when I tried only "https://bitbucket_url/rest/api/1.0/projects/{projects}/repos/{repos}/raw/{path}/package.json" in web browser it downloaded the package.json.