Accept a username for User-level Events API

doc/api/events.md

@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ Parameters:
 
 | Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
 | --------- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
-| `id` | integer | yes | The ID of the user |
+| `id` | integer | yes | The ID or Username of the user |
 | `action` | string | no | Include only events of a particular [action type][action-types] |
 | `target_type` | string | no | Include only events of a particular [target type][target-types] |
 | `before` | date | no |  Include only events created before a particular date. Please see [here for the supported format][date-formatting] |

lib/api/events.rb

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ module API
     end
 
     params do
-      requires :id, type: Integer, desc: 'The ID of the user'
+      requires :id, type: String, desc: 'The ID or Username of the user'
     end
     resource :users do
       desc 'Get the contribution events of a specified user' do
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ module API
         use :sort_params
       end
       get ':id/events' do
-        user = User.find_by(id: params[:id])
+        user = find_user(params[:id])
         not_found!('User') unless user
 
         events = EventsFinder.new(params.merge(source: user, current_user: current_user)).execute.preload(:author, :target)

spec/requests/api/events_spec.rb

@@ -41,6 +41,15 @@ describe API::Events, api: true  do
     end
 
     context "as a user that can see the event's project" do
+      it 'accepts a username' do
+        get api("/users/#{user.username}/events", user)
+
+        expect(response).to have_http_status(200)
+        expect(response).to include_pagination_headers
+        expect(json_response).to be_an Array
+        expect(json_response.size).to eq(1)
+      end
+
       it 'returns the events' do
         get api("/users/#{user.id}/events", user)