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diff --git a/doc/api/README.md b/doc/api/README.md index e627b6f2ee8..1b0f6470b13 100644 --- a/doc/api/README.md +++ b/doc/api/README.md @@ -61,8 +61,9 @@ The following documentation is for the [internal CI API](ci/README.md): ## Authentication -All API requests require authentication via a session cookie or token. There are -three types of tokens available: private tokens, OAuth 2 tokens, and personal +Most API requests require authentication via a session cookie or token. For those cases where it is not required, this will be mentioned in the documentation +for each individual endpoint. For example, the [`/projects/:id` endpoint](projects.md). +There are three types of tokens available: private tokens, OAuth 2 tokens, and personal access tokens. If authentication information is invalid or omitted, an error message will be @@ -303,6 +304,17 @@ Additional pagination headers are also sent back. | `X-Next-Page` | The index of the next page | | `X-Prev-Page` | The index of the previous page | +## Namespaced path encoding + +If using namespaced API calls, make sure that the `NAMESPACE/PROJECT_NAME` is +URL-encoded. + +For example, `/` is represented by `%2F`: + +``` +/api/v4/projects/diaspora%2Fdiaspora +``` + ## `id` vs `iid` When you work with the API, you may notice two similar fields in API entities: @@ -398,7 +410,6 @@ Content-Type: application/json } ``` - ## Clients There are many unofficial GitLab API Clients for most of the popular |