How do you Parse the issue description field from jira api

Question

Currently i'm trying to do this in python but am open to using something else as long as its not too complex.

The issue description field is sent in Atlassian's Document Format which looks something like this:

{'version': 1, 'type': 'doc', 'content': [{'type': 'paragraph', 'content': [{'type': 'text', 'text': 'and i cant lie'}]}]}

The more paragraphs and formatting that is done for the issues description the more complex the structure will be. Is there an easy way to parse/render this down to something viewable? I do not want to do this manually and cant seem to find anything to help in handling this. Im also assuming that comments might be handled this way as well.

There has to be a plugin to make this json format viewable and also a wysiwyg editor, just cant seem to find anything on it

Muhammad Taimoor Abbasi_5w16h9 · Answer

you can use rest/agile/1.0/board/1/issue?jql=key = <Key> endpoint to get parsed description. Other than that I couldn't find any way to parse the description.

For Python there is this peice of code that can parse the description for the most part:

def get_text(content):
    result = ''
    for i in content:
      if 'content' in i:
        if isinstance(i['content'],list):
          result += get_text(i['content'])
      elif 'text' in i:
        result += i['text']
      elif 'attrs' in i:
        result += i['attrs']['url']
    return result

print(get_text(d['content']))

Murali Sai · Answer

Hi, did you find any way? please help, I'm trying to do the same!

jamie_i49bg8 · Answer

If only there was a way