How to add existing default reviewers when creating pull request with API?

[stereohorse]

We are using this API endpoint to set default reviewers for our repositories. It works as expected and corresponding settings appear at UI.

But when we create pull requests using this API endpoint, these default reviewers are not added implicitly.

Is that expected behaviour?

[Dave Chevell · Accepted solution]

Hi Viet,

This is totally expected behaviour. Check out BSERV-9860, where one of the Bitbucket Server dev team responded to a similar request.
The tl;dr reason is that default reviewers are suggested, not enforced. Even when creating a PR via the UI, default reviewers can be removed before creating the pull request.

If you need to include them on PR's created via the API I'd recommend retrieving the default reviewers via this api so you can then include them when creating the PR.

Cheers,

Dave Chevell

[stereohorse]

Thank you, Dave.

[Deleted user]

@Dave ChevellIs this the endpoint you would suggest to access all default reviewers for a particular repo/source branch/target branch?

/rest/default-reviewers/1.0/projects/{projectKey}/repos/{repositorySlug}/reviewers

[Radhika kaur]

Hey @Dave Chevell the solution link shared over  BSERV-9860 is not found. Could you please advise an alternative? I have the same request and need to add default reviewers while creating PRs via API.
 https://developer.atlassian.com/static/rest/bitbucket-server/latest/bitbucket-default-reviewers-rest.html

[Gian Marco Ghiandoni]

Take a look at this https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/14746