I have Azure Devops organization and would like to set readonly permission to a certain group in a list of given repositories.
The following specifies how to do it manually via web console: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/security/set-git-tfvc-repository-permissions?view=azure-devops
How can it be done via Rest API or other programmatic manner?
I found the following to set global permissions: https://jessehouwing.net/azure-devops-git-setting-default-repository-permissions/ and there also seem to be an API to set ACL, but nothing there specifies how I can identify the trustee group or the target repository: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/graph/groups/list?view=azure-devops-rest-5.1
Using Azure Devops Rest API:
First, you need to get the identifier of your group. This can be done with Identities
api.
If you have your group unique id:
GET https://vssps.dev.azure.com/fabrikam/_apis/Identities/{id}?queryMembership=None
Then get the descriptor from the json response .Descriptor.Identifier
.
If you don't have the group id, but have the display name:
GET https://vssps.dev.azure.com/fabrikam/_apis/Identities?searchFactor=DisplayName&factorValue={display name url encoded}&options=None&queryMembership=None
Then get the descriptor from the json response [0].Descriptor.Identifier
.
Get your repository id and project id (that's much easier than group identifier so I won't elaborate), then you have all the required data. Build you request body:
{
"token":"repoV2/{projectId}/{repoId}/",
"merge":true,
"accessControlEntries":[
{
"descriptor":"Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Identity;{groupIdentifier}",
"allow":2,
"deny":0,
"extendedInfo":{
"effectiveAllow":2,
"effectiveDeny":0,
"inheritedAllow":2,
"inheritedDeny":0
}
}
]
}
and
POST https://dev.azure.com/fabrikam/_apis/AccessControlEntries/2e9eb7ed-3c0a-47d4-87c1-0ffdd275fd87
Note the id in the url is hardcoded because its a constant. But you can also fetch from the response of
GET https://dev.azure.com/fabrikam/_apis/securitynamespaces