JIRA Rest API get Issues with changeLog

georgiossalon

So I've read in the JIRA REST API documentation that with the following JQL I am able to get all fields from an issue.

 

final SearchResult searchResult = restClient.getSearchClient().searchJql(userJQL,maxResults,startAt, "*all").claim(); 

The problem is, that I do not know, how to write the -->> *all <<-- in Java.

 

I just know that it is of type Array<String>.

 

Since I am using intellij, it recommended using 

Collections.singleton("*all")

which did not lead to an error, but still was not able to get the changelog.

 

Any suggestions?

 

Andy Heinzer

I think you might be confusing two different rest endpoints here.   It is true in Jira Cloud you can use the REST API to get back a changelog of the issue itself.  GET /rest/api/2/issue/{issueIdOrKey} explains this in more details.  That *all is a parameter on the fields.   I'm not exactly sure of the way this would look in JAVA, but if you were making a REST call via curl, this parameter is passed in the URL called such as:

/rest/api/2/issue/ABC-123?fields=*all

However that endpoint is designed to return to you a single issue.   In your code, it looks like you're actually doing a JQL search.   Which I think is a completely different endpoint of GET /rest/api/2/search

From review that, it looks like you could use the same parameter in the search and do something like:

/rest/api/2/search?jql=JQLHERE&fields=*all

However the search endpoint does not offer you the ability to pull changelog data.   That can only be seen in the issue endpoint.