WEBAPI GET api/components/search doesn't return file information anymore

[SebG (Sebastien Guibert)]

• versions used :
  Version 8.9 (build 43852)

• error observed :
  With LTS version 7, I used webapi to retreive file information. With api/components/search I retreived the file key and I used it for other queries.
  Since new LTS version this api does not return file information. It returns only application and project information.

• steps to reproduce
  http://sonar_url/api/components/search?qualifiers=TRK&q=file_name.sql it returns nothing even with a valid file name.
  http://sonar_url/api/components/search?qualifiers=TRK This query returns only projects

• potential workaround
  No workaournd

WebApi documentation says this endpoint should return file informaiton:

Is there a new API to return file information (I looked for it but I did not find it) ?

Thanks

[SebG (Sebastien Guibert)]

I found that in WEBAPI documentation:

But how to use the endpoint issues/search that requires a component_key to list issues of a file?

[SebG (Sebastien Guibert)]

move it in Help section i/o report bug.

[SebG (Sebastien Guibert)]

@dmeneses gave the answer. Need to use api/components/tree.

List issues with webapi

Ok, so if I understood correctly the problem is that you can no longer search for source code files by name with that web service. You can use the web service api/components/tree with the parameter q to search for files by name.