The following REST documentation describes all public endpoints of your SCM-Manager instance. 
You can try the endpoints with or without authentication right on the swagger surface provided by the OpenAPI-Plugin.

For authenticated requests please login to the SCM-Manager. You can also use the "Authorize" button and insert your preferred authentication method. 
For basic authentication simply use your SCM-Manager credentials. If you want to use the bearer token authentication, you can generate an 
valid token using the authentication endpoint and copy the response body.

SCM-Manager defines a modern ["Level 3"-REST API](https://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.html). 
Using the HATEOAS architecture for REST allows us to provide discoverable and self explanatory endpoint definitions. 
The responses are build using the [HAL JSON format](http://stateless.co/hal_specification.html). 
HAL makes the API human-friendly and simplifies the communication between the frontend and the server using links and embedded resources.

We highly suggest using HAL links when creating new functions for SCM-Manager since they are consistent and are only 
appended to the response when user has the necessary permissions. The links and embedded resources can also be used by plugins, which can
define new resources or enrich existing ones.
