Azure DevOps Work Items API
Operations for managing work items (Bugs, Tasks, User Stories, etc.)
Azure DevOps Work Items API is one of 62 APIs that Azure DevOps publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification and an AsyncAPI event-driven specification.
Tagged areas include Work Items. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, an API reference, and an AsyncAPI specification.
This API exposes 5 operations across 3 paths, and defines 4 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 7.1.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/{project}/_apis.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 2
Azure DevOps Work Items API declares
2 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (bearerAuth).
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicAuth).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
bearerAuth— Azure AD OAuth 2.0 bearer tokenbasicAuth— Basic authentication using a Personal Access Token (PAT). Use any string as the username and the PAT as the password, then base64-encode the result.
Paths & Operations 5
Across 3 paths, the API surfaces 5 operations — 1 DELETE, 2 GET, 1 PATCH, 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Operations for managing work items (Bugs, Tasks, User Stories, etc.)
Schemas 4
The contract defines 4 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ApiError (7 properties), WorkItem (6 properties), JsonPatchOperation (4 properties), WorkItemRelation (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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