Quality Infrastructure API

Overview

A Quality Infrastructure backend service is deployed at https://qi-backend.gpii.net/ and provides a REST API. The QI Dashboard prototype utilizes this service and the API described on this page.

Endpoints

This section describes available endpoints and provides information about the types of results they provide.

Commits Endpoint Structure

/a/:account-name/:github-repo-name/commits

Method: GET

1. Returns a commit summary for a GitHub repository showing the most active committer, their number of commits, and a total number of commits for the project.
2. A list of events detailing dates and total associated commits is also provided.

• Example: https://qi-backend.gpii.net/a/asterics/keyboardx/commits
• Result:

{
  "summary": {
    "timeOfLastCommit": "2015-06-27",
    "mostFrequentCommitter": "s3huber",
    "mostFrequentCommitterTotalCommits": 9,
    "totalCommits": 9
  },
  "events": [
    {
      "timestamp": "2015-04-05",
      "value": 2
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "2015-03-29",
      "value": 2
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "2015-03-01",
      "value": 2
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "2015-02-22",
      "value": 2
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "2015-02-01",
      "value": 1
    }
  ]
}

Contributors Endpoint Structure

/a/:account-name/:github-repo-name/contributors

Method: GET

1. Returns the total number of contributors for a repository.
2. Also returned is a list of dates and how many people contributed on that particular day.

• Example: https://qi-backend.gpii.net/a/asterics/keyboardx/contributors
• Result:

{
  "summary": {
    "numberOfContributors": 1
  },
  "events": [
    {
      "timestamp": "2015-04-05",
      "value": 1
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "2015-03-29",
      "value": 1
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "2015-03-01",
      "value": 1
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "2015-02-22",
      "value": 1
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "2015-02-01",
      "value": 1
    }
  ]
}