Rest API compact mode

[alprog]

I am using Cloud Rest API for personal tools (personal Jira client to speedup daily tasks at work).

I found responses extremely verbose for some fields. Especially status and parent. By default, they are expanded, including name, description, statusCategory and so on.

I would like to have compact mode, where API returns only ID or key. But not expand it more. Otherwise it is massive unnecessary duplication.

[Gor Greyan · Accepted solution]

Hi @alprog

Jira Cloud REST API doesn’t currently support “compact mode.” Fields like status and parent are always returned as objects, not simple IDs or keys. Jira supports expanding objects, but not collapsing them. The best workaround is to explicitly set fields to only what you need and extract the minimal values client-side.

[John Funk]

Hi Alprog - Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

I am marking Gor's answer as Accepted - please let us know if you still have questions.