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+# JSON API: /status
+([&#x2b11;JSON API Index](index.md))
+
+# Status of Local Checkout
+
+**Status:** implemented 20130223
+
+**Required permissions:** n/a (local access only)
+
+**Request:** `/json/status`
+
+This command requires a local checkout and is the analog to the "fossil
+status" command.
+
+**Request Options:** currently none.
+
+Payload example:
+
+```json
+{
+"repository":"/home/stephan/cvs/fossil/fossil.fsl",
+"localRoot":"/home/stephan/cvs/fossil/fossil/",
+"checkout":{
+  "uuid":"b38bb4f9bd27d0347b62ecfac63c4b8f57b5c93b",
+  "tags":["trunk"],
+  "datetime":"2013-02-22 17:34:19 UTC",
+  "timestamp":1361554459
+ },
+/* "parent" info is currently missing. */
+"files":[
+  {"name":"src/checkin.c", "status":"edited"}
+  ...],
+"errorCount":0 /* see notes below */
+}
+```
+
+Notes:
+
+-   The `checkout.tags` property follows the framework-wide convention
+    that the first tag in the list is the primary branch and any others
+    are secondary.
+-   `errorCount` is +1 for each missing file. Conflicts are not treated as
+    errors because the CLI 'status' command does not treat them as such.
+-   The `"status"` entry for each of the `"files"` entries will be either a
+    single string containing a single description of the status change, or
+    an array of strings if more than one change was made, e.g. `"edited"`
+    and `"renamed"`. The status strings include:\  
+    `deleted`, `new`, `notAFile`, `missing`, `updatedByMerge`,
+    `updatedByIntegrate`, `addedBymerge`, `addedByIntegrate`,
+    `conflict`, `edited`, `renamed`
+-   File objects with a `"renamed"` status will contain a `"priorName"`
+    property in addition to the `"name"` property reported in all cases.
+-   TODO: Info for the parent version is currently missing.
+-   TODO: "merged with" info for the checkout is currently missing.