Jira REST API

[Rafael Ibanhez]

Hello. 

I will start by stating that I'm not a app developer, actually I have basic levels of software development but I want to create an interface to get data from Jira.

I have tried to follow all kinds of tutorials besides Jira documentation. I do not want to create an APP, so NO!, I don't want use Forge. All I want is to sent GET, POST and UPDATE. Is there any guide that would help me to achieve this? If I can get raw data I can find my way from there, just stuck on this part and tired of following useless guides that require several tools and accounts for a simple task.

Thank you.

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Rafael Ibanhez 

First, what problem are you trying to solve by doing this?  You note you want to "create an interface", but not why.  Knowing that may help the community offer suggestions.

Until we know that...

Based on what you describe, I recommend you:

• Contact your Jira Org Admin to let them know you are doing this.  It is likely you may impact your company's Jira sites, and possibly your service limits by experimenting this way.
• Ensure you have a Jira user account for the site
• Use a browser search to look for "Jira Cloud REST API documentation"
• Look on the Jira documentation pages for issue-related functions

As you do not want to look at the tutorial information, you will certainly run into challenges and discover things that would have been covered in any tutorials.  Thus you may also want to look at the developer community areas: https://community.developer.atlassian.com/

Kind regards,
Bill

[Rafael Ibanhez]

Hello. 

I want to build my own front end, I use Kanban, but it is limited how I can configure it and to overcome the limitations I need to create several different Kanban boards. Also, Cards view is not customizable, and I use so many fields which makes it difficult to combine the information the way I want (I know about creating tabs on view, but still not good enough). Also, I use a lot of issue linking which makes harder to update all links appropriately. So basically, I want to use all the workflow functionalities of Jira with my own front end.

Jira Cloud REST API documentation points to using FORGE or CONNECT which end up needing different tools and platforms when all I want to achieve is get the row data, just like when using the http://<site>.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue/DEMO-1

I could not find a guide showing what I need to connect to Jira using the other integration for authentication, it falls down to FORGE or any other middleware which I'd like to avoid. 

So basically, that is my question, is there a guide I could follow to get raw data from Jira without using so many tools? 

Thank you.

[Bill Sheboy]

As I noted, I recommend looking at the developer community and the documentation pages for the REST API.  Those both often show simpler examples.

However you are unlikely to find a tutorial/guide for "how do I create my own UX to replace the one provided by Jira".  Rather if Atlassian tools are not meeting your needs consider investigating other products so you do not need to build your own...on top of the existing product.

[Rafael Ibanhez]

Hello. I signed up with the developer community. Thanks for your help