Magento 2 is it possible to get Magento Version via REST API

Question

I want to use different functionality depending on the Magento version. Is it possible to get version via REST API?

Answer 1

By default Magento there is no API endpoints to get the version.

Based on your needs, you can create new API class then inject ProductMetadataInterface or inject ProductMetadataInterface in existing class wherever needs.

public function __construct(
    \Magento\Framework\App\ProductMetadataInterface $productMetadata
) { 
    $this->productMetadata = $productMetadata; 
}

/**
 * Get Product version
 *
 * @return string
 */ 
public function getMagentoVersion() { 
    return $this->productMetadata->getVersion(); 
}

I hope you got solution to achieve your goal.

Answer 2

Summary of the proposed solutions.
1) From @sathish answer - I've created my own REST API. You can check the following commit or simply use extension.

2) From @renga comment, it is possible to get Magento version from www.website.com/magento_version. So I used the following code to get the Magento version in my React Native app.

const getMagentoVersion = async () => {
  try {
    const url = 'http://magento.base.url/';
    const response = await fetch(`${url}magento_version`);
    const text = await response.text();
    const number = parseNumber(text);
    console.log(text, number);
  } catch (error) {
    console.log(error);
  }
};

const parseNumber = (strg) => {
  strg = strg || '';
  let decimal = '.';
  strg = strg.replace(/[^0-9$.,]/g, '');
  if (strg.indexOf(',') > strg.indexOf('.')) decimal = ',';
  if ((strg.match(new RegExp(`\\${decimal}`, 'g')) || []).length > 1) decimal = '';
  if (decimal != '' && (strg.length - strg.indexOf(decimal) - 1 == 3) && strg.indexOf(`0${decimal}`) !== 0) decimal = '';
  strg = strg.replace(new RegExp(`[^0-9$${decimal}]`, 'g'), '');
  strg = strg.replace(',', '.');
  return parseFloat(strg);
};

getMagentoVersion();