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Issue history through REST API

Mark Kofman

Hey,

Is it possible to get history of issue changes using REST API? If not, is there a plan to implement that in near-term future?

thanx,

Mark

Accepted answers

Julien Hoarau

It can be done with JIRA 5 REST API using expansion like this:

/jira/rest/api/2/issue/DRW-124?expand=changelog

All comments

Colin Goudie

There doesn't appear to be on their REST documentation - http://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/latest/#resources

Renjith Pillai

A workaround which is followed is that, identify which are the specific history actions you are interested in, (for example date in which the issue moved from one state to another), create custom fields and update them during transistion using postfunctions. And custom fields are available via SOAP.

Julien Hoarau

It can be done with JIRA 5 REST API using expansion like this:

/jira/rest/api/2/issue/DRW-124?expand=changelog

Iurii Volchyn

From API prospective the history is called changelog (it's one of the expandos)

Here is the example of getting changelog of an issue using JIRA Rest Java Client (JRJC)

Expandos[] expandArr = new Expandos[] { Expandos.CHANGELOG };
List&lt;Expandos&gt; expand = Arrays.asList(expandArr);

final Issue isssue = issueClient.getIssue("IssueID", expand, pm);

Iterable&lt;ChangelogGroup&gt; changeLogGroupList = issue.getChangelog();
for (ChangelogGroup changelogGroup : changeLogGroupList) {
    System.out.println("Outputting the changelog group created by '"
                    + changelogGroup.getAuthor() + "' at '"
                    + changelogGroup.getCreated() + "'");
    Iterable&lt;ChangelogItem&gt; changelogItems = changelogGroup.getItems();
    for (ChangelogItem changelogItem : changelogItems) {
        System.out.println("Changing the field '"
                        + changelogItem.getField() + "' of type '"
                        + changelogItem.getFieldType() + "' from value '"
                        + changelogItem.getFrom() + "' and string '"
                        + changelogItem.getFromString() + "' to value '"
                        + changelogItem.getTo() + "' and string '"
                        + changelogItem.getToString() + "'");
    }
}

Contact Kintosoft

Well, another workaround if you like SQL more than REST then you might want to fetch such data via JDBC (over http, of course) and put them just right inside your favorite reporting tool (like Birt, or your custom java program) without effort. The benefits are clear when you need work with the data output. Any drawback? The SQL for JIRA plugin is not free....