JIRA accountID Lenght is it always 25 chars?

[Matt Hickman]

Hi just building a script to pull out an accountID and then use that to remove the user from a group, I'm no coder so ended up using toString for the response and then substring to get out the accountID, I'm happy with that so long as the accountID's are always 25 chars long?

Thanks in advance

Matt

[Mikael Sandberg]

No, the Atlassian Id is not always 25 characters, it can be up to 128 characters. You should use the find users rest end point to get the Atlassian Id instead of relying on substrings.

[Matt Hickman]

Hi Mikael, 

I'm using:

'https://******.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/user/search?query=' + emailaddy

to get the accountID, but I need to filer out just the accountID, but can't find away in the API to just return the data I need.

[Mikael Sandberg]

Yeah, the search will return the full information, but you should be able to get the account Id by looking for the value of accountId. If you use substring look for the value between "accountId: " and , "accountType". If you are using smart values in an automation you should be able to find it using {{webResponse.body.accountId}} if you are using a web request to get the user.