How to search issues using pure SOAP

[Artem Pervenyonok]

I need to use pure SOAP in order to do some integration with Jira. The problem I have is that I can't generate correct SOAP request to search issue by a specific filter. I used WSDL to generate sample requests and used getIssuesFromTextSearch request. Here is the code:

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"

xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"

xmlns:soap="http://soap.rpc.jira.atlassian.com">

<soapenv:Header/>

<soapenv:Body>

<soap:getIssuesFromTextSearch soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">

<in0 xsi:type="xsd:string">i8nn0pbo3q</in0>

<in1 xsi:type="xsd:string">reset=true&amp;&amp;pid=10190&amp;customfield_10005=active</in1>

</soap:getIssuesFromTextSearch>

</soapenv:Body>

</soapenv:Envelope>

The value for searchTerm I got from the permlink of the search I made in a browser (copy-pasted everything after "?"). I also tried "pid=10190&customfield_10005=active" and "customfield_10005=active" but with no result: I was either getting empty response or wrong issues in a response.

Can anyone hint me what I did wrong and how to get the same response as I'm getting in browser?

Thanks!

[MattS]

Last time I looked at this I created a custom SOAP plugin that took a map of key=value constraints and converted them to a search string. It wasn't pretty.

~Matt

[Artem Pervenyonok]

Is there any way you can share that plugin? Thanks in advance!

[MattS]

Sorry, unlikely

[Artem Pervenyonok]

Thanks anyway.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

That's a pain. I will wait for Sohalil answer on RSS and then look at creating own SOAP Plugin if that also doesn't help!

[Artem Pervenyonok]

Thanks again. We need to use custom queries (like "Custom Field" equal to some value, and that value will be different for each request, so we can't create filters for each request), so pre-defined filter will not help :(

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Not aware of an RSS search via SOAP. Maybe Sohalil is mentioning about the RSS feed?

Looking at you search parameters, searching based on a predefined filter maybe an option!

[Artem Pervenyonok]

Thanks for your replies! We're on Jira 3.*, so JQL is not our option (which is good, btw.). But can you plese refer me to any documentation how I can use RSS search through SOAP? I can't find this info...

[sohail]

Sorry, I wasn't clear: you need to use a HTTP client and consume the XML/RSS found at:

<baseurl>/sr/jira.issueviews:searchrequest-xml/temp/SearchRequest.xml?&tempMax=0

The comments in that feed should tell you how to filter on your custom fields.

Edit: I was wrong, it's not possible to filter on a custom field through the SearchRequest.xml interface. It's probably best for you to write a SOAP endpoint if you can.

Edit: I was doubly wrong, you can filter through RSS:

&customfield_<id>=<value>

[AV Vehicle]

Can you give a little more detail, because i want to implement that too and couldnt find anything on web.

Thanks in advance.

[sohail]

If you are on JIRA pre-4.0, then you want to use the RSS search because it allows a bit of filtering iirc. If you are on JIRA post-4.0, then use JQL.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

getIssuesFromTextSearch simply takes a String and search for that String on the issues. It doesn't take search parameters and search using them.

You might want to look at JQL Search if you are on JIRA 4.x.