Will usernames continue to work in custom python scripts?

Question

We have a custom python program that handles some unique workflows we have in Jira. It uses the Python Rest API to retrieve usernames in order to modify assignees and watchers of tickets.

Per this article, usernames are no longer supported in the REST api as of May 1, 2019: https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloudkb/user-installed-apps-fail-on-broken-user-reference-in-jira-confluence-bitbucket-969526118.html

However, the python program we are running is still operational, and when I test the REST API, it is still returning usernames (for example, using the jira.group_members() method). We are using the 2.0.0 version of the Python API running on Python 2.7.

Does anyone know what the plan is for the Python API?

Jason Sole · Answer

I ended up having to monkey patch the python API to make it work. Deployment requires me to pip install everything, and then overwrite client.py with my own version. Not very elegant, but it kept our stuff running.

Gonchik Tsymzhitov · Answer

So it's the same as Rest api :(  as it's wrapper