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Creating a Merge Request Template

Function

This API is used to create a merge request template.

Debugging

You can debug this API through automatic authentication in API Explorer or use the SDK sample code generated by API Explorer.

Authorization Information

Each account root user has all the permissions required to call all APIs, but IAM users must be assigned the following required identity policy-based permissions. For details about the required permissions, see Permissions Policies and Supported Actions.

Action	Access Level	Resource Type (*: required)	Condition Key	Alias	Dependencies
codeartsrepo:repository:setRepository	Write	-	-	-	-

URI

POST https://{hostURL}/v4/repositories/{repository_id}/merge-requests/templates

**Table 1** Path Parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
repository_id	Yes	Integer	Definition You can query the project list to obtain the repository ID by calling the API used to query user's all repositories. Constraints N/A Default Value N/A Value range: 1~2147483647

Request Parameters

**Table 2** Request header parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
X-Auth-Token	Yes	String	Definition User token. Obtain one by calling the IAM API Obtaining a User Token. The value of X-Subject-Token in the response header is a token. Constraints N/A Range 1–100,000 characters. Default Value N/A

**Table 3** Request body parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
template_name	Yes	String	Definition Template name.
merge_request_title	No	String	Definition MR title. (This parameter is valid when the MR title is not auto extracted.)
description	No	String	Definition Description.
auto_extract_mr_title	No	Integer	Definition Auto extract MR title. 0: not extract 1: extract commit message 2: extract the E2E ticket title Value range: 0~2
is_wip	No	Boolean	Definition Whether to add [WIP] to the title.
is_default	No	Boolean	Definition Whether to set as the default template.

Response Parameters

Status code: 200

**Table 4** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
id	Integer	Definition Primary key ID of an MR template. Value range: 1~2147483647
repository_id	Integer	Definition: Repository ID.
description	String	Definition Description.
created_at	String	Definition Creation time.
updated_at	String	Definition Update time.
template_name	String	Definition Template name.
merge_request_title	String	Definition MR title. (This parameter is valid when the MR title is not auto extracted.)
is_default	Boolean	Definition Whether to set as the default template.
is_wip	Boolean	Definition Whether to add [WIP] to the title.
auto_extract_mr_title	Integer	Definition Auto extract MR title. 0: not extract 1: extract commit message 2: extract the E2E ticket title Value range: 0~2
creator	UserBasicDto object	Definition Creator.

**Table 5** UserBasicDto
Parameter	Type	Description
id	Integer	Definition User ID. Value range: 1~2147483647
name	String	Definition Username.
username	String	Definition Username.
state	String	Definition: User status Value range: active: available account blocked: locked user error: The user is not found Enumeration values: active blocked error
service_license_status	Integer	Service-level permission status. 0: disabled; 1: enabled
avatar_url	String	User profile picture URL
avatar_path	String	User profile picture path
email	String	User email
name_cn	String	Username (CN)
web_url	String	User homepage
nick_name	String	User alias
tenant_name	String	Tenant name
error_message	String	Definition When some query APIs detect that the user permission in the transfer parameter is insufficient or the user does not exist, the user is returned but the field is not empty for information.

Status code: 401

**Table 6** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
error_code	String	Definition Error code.
error_msg	String	Definition Error message.

Example Requests

/v4/repositories/123/merge-requests/templates

{
  "template_name" : "name",
  "merge_request_title" : "title",
  "description" : "description",
  "auto_extract_mr_title" : 0,
  "is_wip" : true,
  "is_default" : true
}

Example Responses

Status code: 200

{
  "id" : 2278,
  "repository_id" : 2111987241,
  "description" : "description",
  "created_at" : "2025-03-06T19:56:21.000+08:00",
  "updated_at" : "2025-03-06T19:56:21.000+08:00",
  "template_name" : "name",
  "merge_request_title" : "title",
  "is_default" : true,
  "is_wip" : true,
  "auto_extract_mr_title" : 0,
  "creator" : {
    "id" : 9124,
    "name" : "example_name",
    "username" : "c369c68f1ff84679b5a8ed904d8bff1c",
    "state" : "active",
    "avatar_url" : null,
    "email" : "liujian@example.com",
    "name_cn" : "example_name",
    "web_url" : "https://example.com/c369c68f1ff84679b5a8ed904d8bff1c",
    "nick_name" : "dev",
    "tenant_name" : "example_name"
  }
}

Status code: 401

Unauthorized

{
  "error_code" : "DEV.00000003",
  "error_msg" : "Authentication information expired."
}

Status Codes

Status Code	Description
200	OK
401	Unauthorized

Error Codes

See Error Codes.

Parent topic: MergeRequest

Previous topic: Obtaining Project MR Settings

Next topic: Obtaining the Merge Request Template List

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