Stash API - How do you Fork to a user's account as Admin

Question

As a System Admin, I'm trying to migrate many user's accounts which currently have forks of upstream repository, how would I go about doing that via the API.

I looked for a way to do it with the fork create request, and didn't see a way to masquerade as user option.

cofarrell · Answer

Hi Sean,

I'm always a fan of examples over tutorials:

http://atlassian.bitbucket.org/#stash

There's obviously our dev docs as well:

https://developer.atlassian.com/stash/docs/latest/

Good luck. :)

Charles

Sean Voss1 · Answer

Cool, yea I'm going down that path, I think I have eclipse configured and the sdk installed correctly.

Was checking into the tutorials, to get a feel for coding a plugin.

You feel like sending some links that would relevant to building this project to give me a shove in the right direction?

cofarrell · Answer

Hi Sean,

Thanks for the details.

I think to create the forks themselves you're going to have to use a custom Java pluin just to create the forks. So my advice would be to import the parent repositories (either as a script/REST or Java), and then write a simple plugin that does the forking in Java. You could even just expose 'forkAsUser' as a REST endpoint and then control the rest from a script. Obviously make sure you turn that plugin off when you're done.

Let me know if you get stuck with the plugin. Also, if you can, please post any details/code on your migration as I'm sure others will find it useful. :)

Charles