The XML-RPC API
Patchwork provides an XML-RPC API. This API can be used to be used to retrieve and modify information about patches, projects and more.
Important
The XML-RPC API can be enabled/disabled by the administrator: it may not be
available in every instance. Refer to /about
on your given instance for
the status of the API, e.g.
Alternatively, simply attempt to make a request to the API.
Deprecated since version 2.0: The XML-RPC API is a legacy API and has been deprecated in favour of the REST API. It may be removed in a future release.
Getting Started
The Patchwork XML-RPC API provides a number of “methods”. Some methods require authentication (via HTTP Basic Auth) while others do not. Authentication uses your Patchwork account and the on-server documentation will indicate where it is necessary. We will only cover the unauthenticated method here for brevity - consult the xmlrpc documentation for more detailed examples:
To interact with the Patchwork XML-RPC API, a XML-RPC library should be used. Python provides such a library - xmlrpc - in its standard library. For example, to get the version of the XML-RPC API for a Patchwork instance hosted at patchwork.example.com, run:
$ python
>>> import xmlrpc.client
>>> rpc = xmlrpc.client.ServerProxy('http://patchwork.example.com/xmlrpc/')
>>> rpc.pw_rpc_version()
1.1
Once connected, the rpc
object will be populated with a list of available
functions (or procedures, in RPC terminology). In the above example, we used
the pw_rpc_version
method, however, it should be possible to use all the
methods listed in the server documentation.
Further Information
Patchwork provides automatically generated documentation for the XML-RPC API. You can find this at the following URL:
where patchwork.example.com refers to the URL of your Patchwork instance.
Changed in version 1.1: Automatic documentation generation for the Patchwork API was introduced in Patchwork v1.1. Prior versions of Patchwork do not offer this functionality.