Best Language for Jira Cloud Rest API's

Question

Hi Team,

I would like to learn Jira cloud rest API's so i recently visited to Atlassian documentation, where i found programs are available in 5 languages like (cURL, NodeJS, PHP, Python, Java)

Out of all these languages can any one suggest which is best and most used one.

Thanks in advance,

Raju

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

I wouldn't worry about the language, it really doesn't matter.

Purely as an academic exercise, I wrote a bash script that took a url constructed by a program written in Ook! as an input to a curl call to a Jira REST API that created a new issue.

I would not recommend that, Ook! is not a lovely thing to try to code in.

You should code in whatever you want to.  From your list, I personally would use Java, but that is purely because I know enough Java to do what I want.  I've not used Python enough to form an opinion, but I know plenty of people who love it, and count people whom I have a lot of respect for amongst them, so there must be something in it.  I'd say the same about Javascript too.

Lasse Langhorn_eakpsc · Answer

Hi,

I would go for Python if I were to recommend a programming language. It is very powerful and you can find Python packages for almost anything.

As Java and Python programmer I found the Python language to be extremely flexible.

I would recommend a Python package like Atlassian Python API or Python Request. I have used both packages when I were to manipulate the Atlassian REST API on Atlassian instances like Jira, Confluence or Bamboo.

Hope this will get you started.

Regards

Lasse Langhorn