JIRA REST API: How to search groups by case insensitive value

Question

Hello, everyone

How can I ignore case sensitiveness of query parameter during getting groups with the help /rest/api/2/groups/picker?

Right now:
/rest/api/2/groups/picker?query=aaa returns group Test aaa.
/rest/api/2/groups/picker?query=aAa returns group Test aAa.

What I need is - get both groups (Test aaa and Test aAa ) using rest/api/2/groups/picker?query=aaa or rest/api/2/groups/picker?query=AAA

Thanks.

Jānis Liepa · Answer

I created a similar ticket and the response is:

Not possible, unfortunately. But there's a feature request to bring this to Cloud:

JRACLOUD-71706: Make group picker case insensitive for /rest/api/3/groups/picker

Watch the ticket to be kept updated on the progress of the feature.

Jānis Liepa · Answer

When changing ?query= to a ?query~ in REST API URL it does not performs a fuzzy search, but instead returns all values.

You can try that by adding completely different query.

somethingblue · Answer

Hi Natalia, One thing you can do is change the = to a ~ which performs a fuzzy search. If I search with the = sign I get one result: {"header":"Showing 1 of 1 matching groups","total":1,"groups":[{"name":"aaa","html":"aaa","labels":[]}]} When I use the tilde I get multiple results: {"header":"Showing 3 of 3 matching groups","total":3, "groups":[{"name":"aaa","html":"aaa","labels":[]}, {"name":"jira-administrators","html": "jira-administrators","labels": [{"text":"Admin","title":"Users added to this group will be given administrative access","type":"ADMIN"}, {"text":"JIRA Software","title":"Users added to this group will be given access to JIRA Software","type":"SINGLE"}]}, {"name":"jira-software-users","html":"jira-software-users","labels": [{"text":"JIRA Software","title":"Users added to this group will be given access to JIRA Software","type":"SINGLE"}]}]} For more information about searching in JIRA see the Search syntax for text fields knowledge base article. Cheers, Branden