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ivanjonas
ivanjonas

Reputation: 609

Use Jenkins API to find information about the current user

I'm building a client-side dashboard that makes use of the Jenkins REST API to fetch data about jobs. That's the easy part. I haven't yet figured out how to display, for example, the current user's name (though I did find the path to any particular user, but that's not dynamic: [jenkinsRoot]/users/[name]/api ).

Is there a hidden REST path that contains any information about the current user?

If not, is there an alternative? I've already checked the cookie, and it doesn't have the username.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5085

Answers (2)

Patrick Linskey
Patrick Linskey

Reputation: 1144

As of at least v1.565.3, you can get some good info at /me/api/json.

Upvotes: 2

Ray
Ray

Reputation: 41408

The only place I can find to hit data about a user in Jenkins 1.5 is:

  /user/[user_name]/api/[json|xml]

Currently, there doesn't seem to be a REST endpoint for 'who am i'. Also, none of the other resources look as if they expose the current user.

I guessing it's assumed if you're using the credentials with the [user_name] to authenticate you should just enter it in the request ULR for the user resource endpoint to get the user resource.

You could probably make a simple plugin to expose the currently authenticated user: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Exposing+data+to+the+remote+API

Upvotes: 1

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