Overview

In this tutorial, we will learn how to enable the Mantis API token and execute a sample MantisBT Rest API call. Rest API is default enabled on the Mantis instance. However, we need to enable the API token for authorization. This token is specific to the user and can be enabled on the My Account page.

Create API Mantis Token

Steps to create an API token

https://www.testingdocs.com/create-api-token-in-mantisbt/

API Test Tool

This tutorial uses the Postman API tool. To know more about the tool please follow the link:

https://www.testingdocs.com/postman-api-tool/

Server-side Resources

Mantis Rest Web services operate on the MantisBT Server-side resources without any user interface. Some of the resources are:

Projects/ Sub-Projects
Issues / Attachments
Versions
Filters

MantisBT Rest API

Mantis Bug Tracker API calls have to be authenticated by creating an API token for the user executing the calls. We need to pass the API token in the Authorization HTTP header. Authorization and the token form a KV(Key-value pair). The absence of this token or passing an invalid token would result in 401 or 403 errors.

Specify the Authorization header.

API Request

Specify the API URL Endpoint.

To retrieve an issue, use the GET /issues/<issue_id> API call.

For example, to retrieve the details of the issue id 2

http://localhost/mantis/api/rest/issues/2

API Response

Sample response for the above API request in JSON format:

{
 "issues": [
 {
 "id": 2,
 "summary": "[TestingDocs.com] Sample Bug Summary",
 "description": " Sample Bug Description",
 "steps_to_reproduce": "Sample Steps to Reproduce:\r\nStep1\r\nStep2",
 "project": {
 "id": 1,
 "name": "TestingDocsProject"
 },
 "category": {
 "id": 1,
 "name": "General"
 },
 "reporter": {
 "id": 1,
 "name": "administrator",
 "email": "root@localhost"
 },
 "status": {
 "id": 10,
 "name": "new",
 "label": "new",
 "color": "#fcbdbd"
 },
 "resolution": {
 "id": 10,
 "name": "open",
 "label": "open"
 },
 "view_state": {
 "id": 10,
 "name": "public",
 "label": "public"
 },
 "priority": {
 "id": 40,
 "name": "high",
 "label": "high"
 },
 "severity": {
 "id": 60,
 "name": "major",
 "label": "major"
 },
 "reproducibility": {
 "id": 70,
 "name": "have not tried",
 "label": "have not tried"
 },
 "sticky": false,
 "created_at": "2019-08-10T04:39:57+00:00",
 "updated_at": "2019-08-10T04:39:57+00:00",
 "history": [
 {
 "created_at": "2019-08-10T04:39:57+00:00",
 "user": {
 "id": 1,
 "name": "administrator",
 "email": "root@localhost"
 },
 "type": {
 "id": 1,
 "name": "issue-new"
 },
 "message": "New Issue"
 }
 ]
 }
 ]
}