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-rw-r--r--changelogs/unreleased/osw-updates-merge-status-on-api-actions.yml5
-rw-r--r--lib/api/entities.rb11
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/osw-updates-merge-status-on-api-actions.yml b/changelogs/unreleased/osw-updates-merge-status-on-api-actions.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3854985e576
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/unreleased/osw-updates-merge-status-on-api-actions.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+title: Return more consistent values for merge_status on MR APIs
+merge_request:
+author:
+type: fixed
diff --git a/lib/api/entities.rb b/lib/api/entities.rb
index 7b9a80a234b..5b470bd3479 100644
--- a/lib/api/entities.rb
+++ b/lib/api/entities.rb
@@ -507,7 +507,16 @@ module API
expose :work_in_progress?, as: :work_in_progress
expose :milestone, using: Entities::Milestone
expose :merge_when_pipeline_succeeds
- expose :merge_status
+
+ # Ideally we should deprecate `MergeRequest#merge_status` exposure and
+ # use `MergeRequest#mergeable?` instead (boolean).
+ # See https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/42344 for more
+ # information.
+ expose :merge_status do |merge_request|
+ # In order to avoid having a breaking change for users, we keep returning the
+ # expected values from MergeRequest#merge_status state machine.
+ merge_request.mergeable? ? 'can_be_merged' : 'cannot_be_merged'
+ end
expose :diff_head_sha, as: :sha
expose :merge_commit_sha
expose :user_notes_count