Clarification on Jira comment replies / parent-child relationship in REST API

[Yasela Dissanayake]

Hi,

We are integrating Jira issue comments into our application using the Jira Cloud REST API (v3). While reviewing the API responses, we noticed that comments which appear as “replies” in the Jira UI are returned as independent comments, without any explicit parent–child relationship.
Is there any official or recommended way to identify or link reply-style comments to a parent comment via the API?

Thanks,
Yasela

[Sunny Ape · Accepted solution]

Hello @Yasela Dissanayake 

Is there any official or recommended way to identify or link reply-style comments to a parent comment via the API?

Nope.

Search this forum for "REST API Threaded Comments" etc. to find all the times that question has been asked and answered in the past, such as this thread

[Yasela Dissanayake]

Hi, thanks for the clarification and for pointing me to the existing threads. Appreciate the help!

[Marc -Devoteam-]

Hi @Yasela Dissanayake 

Welcome to the community.

Please see the Atlassian response to that question in the original announcement:

Changes to the API: In this release, we are not implementing any API changes related to the threaded comments feature. We will issue an RFC requesting feedback when we intend to extend the support.

https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-articles/Reply-to-comments-for-meaningful-conversations-in-Jira/bc-p/2988772#M18540 

And it is mentioned on a feature request; jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-93678