Jira REST API

25 Nov 2016

Jira REST API

Overview

• The endpoints for jira api have the following format <host>/rest/<api-name>/<api-number>/. The api-name is api and api-number is 2. A sample rest call to fetch a issue using Basic Authentication

  curl -H "Authorization: Basic <Encoded username-password>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://<hostname>/rest/api/2/issue/SAAS-324`
  

Authentication

• A client can authenticate with JIRA REST API using three ways.
  • Basic Authentication
  • OAuth
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