Available Web Services

Domain	Examples of use cases that can be fulfilled	Web Service
Violations	get a list of violations on a given resource get all the violations of a project get the blocker and critical violations of a project	/api/violations
Reviews	get a list of reviews create a review update a review (add comment, reassign it, etc.)	/api/reviews

Domain	Examples of use cases that can be fulfilled	Web Service
Measures, Resources	get a list of resources get the measures of a list of metrics on a given resource	/api/resources
Manual Measures	get a list of manual measures create a manual measure delete a manual measure	/api/manual_measures
Time Machine	get past measures	/api/timemachine
Sources	get a list of lines from source files	/api/sources

Domain	Examples of use cases that can be fulfilled	Web Service
Metrics	get a list of metrics create a metric update a metric delete a metric	/api/metrics
Quality Profiles	get the list of coding rules activated in a quality profile backup a quality profile restore a quality profile	/api/profiles
Rules	get a list of rules	/api/rules
Properties	get a list of properties create a property update a property delete a property	/api/properties
User Properties	get a list of user properties create a user property update a user property delete a user property	/api/user_properties
Project Settings	delete a project	/api/projects
Security	authenticate	/sessions/login
Server	get the status of the Sonar server upgrade the Sonar database get the system properties, server info (Java, OS), database configuration, JVM statistics and installed plugins	/api/server
Update Center	get the list of all the plugins installed on the Sonar instance	/api/updatecenter/installed_plugins
Events	get a list of events from a project get a list of global events create an event	/api/events
Favourites	get the logged in user's list of favourites create a favourite delete a favourite	/api/favourites

Simple MS Excel Samples

Authentication

In case your Sonar server is secured, you will also have to manage authentication. Here's an MS Excel sample to deal with it.

The API provides several response formats such as XML, JSON (ie. JavaScript Object Notation) plain text or CSV.

Check the proper web service documentation to get the list of available format responses.

HTTP Code	Description
200	OK
400	Bad request. The request could not be understood by the server due to malformed syntax.
401	Unauthorized
403	Forbidden. The request was a legal request, but the server is refusing to respond to it.
404	The requested resource could not be found.
500	Internal server error.