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Allow admins to merge topics [API]

Jonas Wälter requested to merge siemens/gitlab:merge-topics-api into master

What does this MR do and why?

This MR is the third step of #366884 (closed):

  • Extend the Topics API to allow admins to merge topics

The Topics::MergeService was already implemented in a previous MR and the UI part is done in another MR.

🛠 with ❤ at Siemens

/cc @bufferoverflow

How to set up and validate locally

  1. See API documentation: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/topics.html
  2. Create some topics
  3. Merge topics:
curl --request POST \
     --data "source_topic_id=<ID of source topic>&target_topic_id=<ID of target topic>" \
     --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" \
     "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/topics/merge"

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Edited by Jonas Wälter

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