response of REST API

Question

Hello,

when i call the JIRA REST API to create an issue

rest/api/2/issue

i get the responst in JSON format.

when attaching a File to that issue

rest/api/2/issue/xxx/attachments

i get the response in JSON format, but with surrounding "[]"-braces.

why that?

best regards

Lars

Info:

"version": "8.12.3"

lars_reus · Answer

Hello David,

thank you for the answer, that makes sense..

Lars

unknown · Answer

Because that's the expected behaviour, as per the documentation: POST /rest/api/2/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/attachments Add one or more attachments to an issue. Since you can attach 1 or more, the response has be an array of 1 or more objects, which is shown in the example response provided in the documentation: [ { "self": "http://www.example.com/jira/rest/api/2.0/attachments/10000", "filename": "picture.jpg", , }, { "self": "http://www.example.com/jira/rest/api/2.0/attachments/10001", "filename": "dbeuglog.txt", } ]

Radek Dostál · Answer

Are you asking us why we developed an endpoint to return a JSON array instead of what you expect, a JSON object?

We didn't. You're asking us design questions, this is a community, not an atlassian dev hub / coffee room.