Error "The parameter "username" is not supported.

[Anushaath]

I need to search for a user. And im doing that by search with a email using :

GET /rest/api/2/user/search?query={email}

I get the error "The parameter 'username' is not supported". I'm not even passing the username here. Is the query param not supported for JIRA server and only for JIRA Cloud?
If so, with username not supported, how as a JIRA Server api can I search for a user?

[Piet Pieters]

Hi @Anushaath , 

to search for a user by email, you need this one following the info here: 

baseurl/rest/api/2/user/search?username="email@adres.com"

 If you want to use the one above with "query", you can use: 

baseurl/jira/rest/api/2/user/picker?query="email@adres.com"

Hope this helps! 

• Tessa 

[Anushaath]

Thank you @Piet Pieters that's awesome. So email can be sent to the 'username' field to fetch the user too.