openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Apache Tomcat Manager Applications API
  description: The Apache Tomcat Manager application provides an HTTP text interface for deploying, managing, and monitoring Java web applications. Includes application lifecycle management (deploy, start, stop, reload, undeploy), session management, server status, diagnostics (thread dumps, VM info, memory leak detection), SSL/TLS management, JMX proxy access, and configuration persistence.
  version: '10.1'
  contact:
    name: Apache Tomcat Users Mailing List
    url: https://tomcat.apache.org/lists.html
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
servers:
- url: http://localhost:8080/manager
  description: Local Tomcat instance (default)
security:
- basicAuth: []
tags:
- name: Applications
  description: Web application deployment and lifecycle management
paths:
  /text/list:
    get:
      operationId: listApplications
      summary: List Applications
      description: Returns a list of all deployed web applications on the virtual host.
      tags:
      - Applications
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Plain text list of applications
          content:
            text/plain:
              schema:
                type: string
                example: 'OK - Listed applications for virtual host localhost

                  /webdav:running:0:webdav

                  /examples:running:0:examples

                  /manager:running:0:manager

                  /:running:0:ROOT

                  '
  /text/deploy:
    get:
      operationId: deployFromPath
      summary: Deploy Application From Path
      description: Deploys a web application from a local WAR file or directory path on the server filesystem.
      tags:
      - Applications
      parameters:
      - name: path
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Context path for the application (must start with /)
        example: /myapp
      - name: war
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
        description: URL or path to WAR file or directory
        example: file:/path/to/webapp.war
      - name: config
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
        description: URL to a Context configuration XML file
      - name: update
        in: query
        schema:
          type: boolean
          default: false
        description: Undeploy existing app before deploying
      - name: tag
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Tag name to associate with deployment
      - name: version
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Version string for parallel deployments
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Deployment result
          content:
            text/plain:
              schema:
                type: string
    put:
      operationId: deployWarFile
      summary: Deploy WAR File
      description: Deploys a WAR file uploaded via HTTP PUT request body.
      tags:
      - Applications
      parameters:
      - name: path
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Context path for the application
      - name: update
        in: query
        schema:
          type: boolean
          default: false
      - name: tag
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: config
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/octet-stream:
            schema:
              type: string
              format: binary
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Deployment result
          content:
            text/plain:
              schema:
                type: string
  /text/undeploy:
    get:
      operationId: undeployApplication
      summary: Undeploy Application
      description: 'Removes a web application and its files from the server. WARNING: This permanently deletes application artifacts from the appBase directory.'
      tags:
      - Applications
      parameters:
      - name: path
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Context path of the application to undeploy
      - name: version
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Undeploy result
          content:
            text/plain:
              schema:
                type: string
  /text/start:
    get:
      operationId: startApplication
      summary: Start Application
      description: Starts a previously stopped web application.
      tags:
      - Applications
      parameters:
      - name: path
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Context path of the application to start
      - name: version
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Start result
          content:
            text/plain:
              schema:
                type: string
  /text/stop:
    get:
      operationId: stopApplication
      summary: Stop Application
      description: Stops a running web application, making it unavailable without undeploying.
      tags:
      - Applications
      parameters:
      - name: path
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Context path of the application to stop
      - name: version
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Stop result
          content:
            text/plain:
              schema:
                type: string
  /text/reload:
    get:
      operationId: reloadApplication
      summary: Reload Application
      description: Reloads a web application without full shutdown, picking up changes in WEB-INF/classes and WEB-INF/lib.
      tags:
      - Applications
      parameters:
      - name: path
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Context path of the application to reload
      - name: version
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Reload result
          content:
            text/plain:
              schema:
                type: string
components:
  securitySchemes:
    basicAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: basic
      description: 'HTTP Basic authentication. User must have appropriate role in tomcat-users.xml: manager-script for text interface, manager-jmx for JMX proxy.'