REST Clients
Important
Disclaimer: This API is in private preview and subject to change. This API is in private preview and subject to change.
A REST client simplifies calling Azure DevOps Services REST APIs from your client-side (JavaScript/TypeScript) extension code.
Note
Looking for Azure DevOps REST APIs? See the latest Azure DevOps REST API reference.
For information about .NET client libraries, see .NET client libraries for Azure DevOps.
Get started
To get started with calling client methods from your extension, see how to call a REST API. In general, the steps are:
- Construct or acquire an instance of a client
- Call the method on the client instance, passing any necessary parameters
- Wait for the response
- All REST client methods are non-blocking and return a Promise object. A promise represents a future return value (or exception). Typically you call
then()on the returned object, passing a function that you want to have called when the response is received.
- All REST client methods are non-blocking and return a Promise object. A promise represents a future return value (or exception). Typically you call