'Total' field is missing from the api response

Question

In the jira rest API doc for getting all sprints the api given is GET /rest/agile/1.0/board/{boardId}/sprint and the response is given as,

{ "maxResults": 2, "startAt": 1, "total": 5, "isLast": false, "values": [ { "id": 37, "self": "http://www.example.com/jira/rest/agile/1.0/sprint/23", "state": "closed", "name": "sprint 1", "startDate": "2015-04-11T15:22:00.000+10:00", "endDate": "2015-04-20T01:22:00.000+10:00", "completeDate": "2015-04-20T11:04:00.000+10:00", "originBoardId": 5 }, { "id": 72, "self": "http://www.example.com/jira/rest/agile/1.0/sprint/73", "state": "future", "name": "sprint 2" } ] }

here the field 'total' is in the api response but when calling the api all the other fields except "total' is coming...

how to get the total count of sprints in a board?

unknown · Answer

JSWCLOUD-23039 has just been closed as resolved! The sprint total is now returned in the REST API response :)

Rene C. [Atlassian Support] · Answer

I have documented this at https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-23039. Please feel free to add other endpoints you find with the same behavior (the total value missing).

Jonathan Hayton_bbssaz · Answer

"Refer to the Expansion, pagination, and Ordering section of the REST API documentation to understand how to use startAt, maxResults, total and isLast together in your queries to get all the sprints from a board."

The point is there is no total returned by the API when working out the total number of sprints personally I don't want to iterate my way through an endless loop calling the next 50 and the next 50 and the next 50 which pretty much negates the 'saving resource' argument as multiple calls are way more expensive, I'd prefer to know that I have 1000 sprints and then I'd like to return the last 50 iterate round untill I get to the sprints I want, WHY ! does the total not get returned as per the documentation is the question ?