Merge branch 'user-events-api' into 'master'

API: New /users/:id/events endpoint

## What does this MR do?

If add a new `/users/:id/events` endpoint to retrieve a user's contribution events. The events returned are filtered so that only the events for projects that the current user can see are returned (similarly to what we do at the controller level).

## Why was this MR needed?

Because it's a nice feature to calculate leaderboards, for instance for #17815.

## What are the relevant issue numbers?

Closes #20866.

See merge request !6771

2 files changed, 147 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/doc/api/projects.md b/doc/api/projects.md
index 27436a052da..f96bf7f6d63 100644
--- a/doc/api/projects.md
+++ b/doc/api/projects.md
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ Parameters:
 ### Get project events
 
 Get the events for the specified project.
-Sorted from newest to latest
+Sorted from newest to oldest
 
 ```
 GET /projects/:id/events
diff --git a/doc/api/users.md b/doc/api/users.md
index 9be4f2e6ec3..a52b2d51d78 100644
--- a/doc/api/users.md
+++ b/doc/api/users.md
@@ -627,3 +627,149 @@ Parameters:
 
 Will return `200 OK` on success, `404 User Not Found` is user cannot be found or
 `403 Forbidden` when trying to unblock a user blocked by LDAP synchronization.
+
+### Get user contribution events
+
+Get the contribution events for the specified user, sorted from newest to oldest.
+
+```
+GET /users/:id/events
+```
+
+Parameters:
+
+| Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
+| --------- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
+| `id` | integer | yes | The ID of the user |
+
+```bash
+curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: 9koXpg98eAheJpvBs5tK" https://gitlab.example.com/api/v3/user/:id/events
+```
+
+Example response:
+
+```json
+[
+  {
+    "title": null,
+    "project_id": 15,
+    "action_name": "closed",
+    "target_id": 830,
+    "target_type": "Issue",
+    "author_id": 1,
+    "data": null,
+    "target_title": "Public project search field",
+    "author": {
+      "name": "Dmitriy Zaporozhets",
+      "username": "root",
+      "id": 1,
+      "state": "active",
+      "avatar_url": "http://localhost:3000/uploads/user/avatar/1/fox_avatar.png",
+      "web_url": "http://localhost:3000/u/root"
+    },
+    "author_username": "root"
+  },
+  {
+    "title": null,
+    "project_id": 15,
+    "action_name": "opened",
+    "target_id": null,
+    "target_type": null,
+    "author_id": 1,
+    "author": {
+      "name": "Dmitriy Zaporozhets",
+      "username": "root",
+      "id": 1,
+      "state": "active",
+      "avatar_url": "http://localhost:3000/uploads/user/avatar/1/fox_avatar.png",
+      "web_url": "http://localhost:3000/u/root"
+    },
+    "author_username": "john",
+    "data": {
+      "before": "50d4420237a9de7be1304607147aec22e4a14af7",
+      "after": "c5feabde2d8cd023215af4d2ceeb7a64839fc428",
+      "ref": "refs/heads/master",
+      "user_id": 1,
+      "user_name": "Dmitriy Zaporozhets",
+      "repository": {
+        "name": "gitlabhq",
+        "url": "git@dev.gitlab.org:gitlab/gitlabhq.git",
+        "description": "GitLab: self hosted Git management software. \r\nDistributed under the MIT License.",
+        "homepage": "https://dev.gitlab.org/gitlab/gitlabhq"
+      },
+      "commits": [
+        {
+          "id": "c5feabde2d8cd023215af4d2ceeb7a64839fc428",
+          "message": "Add simple search to projects in public area",
+          "timestamp": "2013-05-13T18:18:08+00:00",
+          "url": "https://dev.gitlab.org/gitlab/gitlabhq/commit/c5feabde2d8cd023215af4d2ceeb7a64839fc428",
+          "author": {
+            "name": "Dmitriy Zaporozhets",
+            "email": "dmitriy.zaporozhets@gmail.com"
+          }
+        }
+      ],
+      "total_commits_count": 1
+    },
+    "target_title": null
+  },
+  {
+    "title": null,
+    "project_id": 15,
+    "action_name": "closed",
+    "target_id": 840,
+    "target_type": "Issue",
+    "author_id": 1,
+    "data": null,
+    "target_title": "Finish & merge Code search PR",
+    "author": {
+      "name": "Dmitriy Zaporozhets",
+      "username": "root",
+      "id": 1,
+      "state": "active",
+      "avatar_url": "http://localhost:3000/uploads/user/avatar/1/fox_avatar.png",
+      "web_url": "http://localhost:3000/u/root"
+    },
+    "author_username": "root"
+  },
+  {
+    "title": null,
+    "project_id": 15,
+    "action_name": "commented on",
+    "target_id": 1312,
+    "target_type": "Note",
+    "author_id": 1,
+    "data": null,
+    "target_title": null,
+    "created_at": "2015-12-04T10:33:58.089Z",
+    "note": {
+      "id": 1312,
+      "body": "What an awesome day!",
+      "attachment": null,
+      "author": {
+        "name": "Dmitriy Zaporozhets",
+        "username": "root",
+        "id": 1,
+        "state": "active",
+        "avatar_url": "http://localhost:3000/uploads/user/avatar/1/fox_avatar.png",
+        "web_url": "http://localhost:3000/u/root"
+      },
+      "created_at": "2015-12-04T10:33:56.698Z",
+      "system": false,
+      "upvote": false,
+      "downvote": false,
+      "noteable_id": 377,
+      "noteable_type": "Issue"
+    },
+    "author": {
+      "name": "Dmitriy Zaporozhets",
+      "username": "root",
+      "id": 1,
+      "state": "active",
+      "avatar_url": "http://localhost:3000/uploads/user/avatar/1/fox_avatar.png",
+      "web_url": "http://localhost:3000/u/root"
+    },
+    "author_username": "root"
+  }
+]
+```