Is there a way to delete an issue link using REST or SOAP?

[Ben Kunkel]

Using REST I can create an issue link: /api/2.0.alpha1/issueLink

Is it possible to delete an issue link using a similar method?

[Ben Kunkel · Accepted solution]

The first solution I found to this was in the JIRA Command Line Interface

--action deletelink --issue XXX-1010 --toIssue XXX-1001 --link 'duplicates'

I didn't want to be dependent on a CLI call, so I dug into the code to find out what it was doing and came up with this:

http://jirahost:8080/secure/DeleteLink.jspa?id=10533&sourceId=10633&linkType=10733&confirm=true&Delete=Delete

...where:

id = Issue ID for the issue at the outbound end of the link.

sourceId = Issue ID for the issue at the inbound end of the link.

linkType = JIRA ID for the link type.

You can actually get most of this from capturing the link address on the 'Delete this link' link on the view issue page. All that is missing is the confirm and Delete values required to avoid the 'are you sure?' dialogue.

[Bob Swift OSS (Bob Swift Atlassian Apps)]

Good you found it. I guess I missed the question too. That is one of the actions that uses UI method until an official API is available - looks like 5.0 can do it better.

[Krishna Ersson]

Here's the link in the latest REST API to deleting an issue link.

[Bob Swift OSS (Bob Swift Atlassian Apps)]

Can't let a remote api question go by without referencing JIRA Command Line Interface :). In this case:

--action deleteIssue --issue xxx-111

For this function it uses SOAP and this interface has been available for many JIRA releases.

[Joe Clark]

The ability to delete issue links will be available in the JIRA 5 REST API - http://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/5.0-rc2/#id3416289

Unfortunately the API does not expose this functionality in any earlier versions of JIRA.

[JamieA]

There's deleteIssue in the SOAP API, which you can also call from the browser using the json+rpc API.

[JamieA]

oops sorry I didn't read the question properly.

This plugin http://code.google.com/p/shared-space/wiki/JiraExtendedWebservice make it available via soap, the method is unlinkIssue

[Andy Brook [Plugin People]]

According to API, not at the moment.