Jira Cloud API - how to check if operator is supported?

Eugene Pavliy

Hi, All.

When working with API, I do have a simple flow like this:

1. Retrieving definitions of all fields in Jira.
2. Leave only those, where such is true: it's a text field, it's searchable and not custom.
3. Then for all that fields I'm using jql to do some search with "Contains". And request line looks like this- executing request like this:
   "/rest/api/2/search?jql=(description ~ \"Desc1*\") OR (statusCategory ~ \"Desc1*\")"

In response I get such error: The operator '~' is not supported by the 'statusCategory' field
I didn't notice any difference in metadata between description and statusCategory fields. Both are searchable and should support "~" from my point of view.

So the questions are:

• Is it fine that statusCategory field does not work with "~"? Or it's an issue in Jira?
• Is it somehow possible to say via API, if this field supports cooperation with specific operator?

 

Thanks.

Krister Broman _Advania_

statusCategory is not text, its a reference of status that can be either "To Do", "In Progress" or "Done". When creating a new status you set the category of the status. This way you can search for any status that is "Done" whether or not the actual status is then "Closed", "Rejected" or anything other that you may have.