Using JIRA REST api from groovy

[Wim Deblauwe]

Hi,

I am testing the JIRA REST api by writing a small program in Groovy. I am using Groovy 1.8 with HTTPBuilder 0.5.1.

I have this code so far:

import groovyx.net.http.HTTPBuilder

import net.sf.json.JSONArray

class Test

{

def static JIRA_REST_URL = "http://testserver:8888/jira/rest"

def static JIRA_API_URL = JIRA_REST_URL + "/api/2.0.alpha1/"

public static void main(String[] args)

{

def jira = new HTTPBuilder(JIRA_API_URL);

jira.auth.basic "myusername", "mypassword"

def serverInfo = jira.get(path: 'serverInfo')

println "Using JIRA version " + serverInfo.version

def JSONArray projects = jira.get(path: 'project');

println projects

def int numberOfProjects = projects.size()

println "Got $numberOfProjects projects in JIRA";

projects.each { println it.dump() }

}

}

Which gives this result:

Using JIRA version 4.3.4

[]

Got 0 projects in JIRA

If I use my browser I do get a list of my JIRA projects. What am I doing wrong?

regards,

Wim

[JamieA · Accepted solution]

Hi Wim,

The source formatter in this thing is pretty dire eh.

I believe the issue is that httpbuilder will only send the basic auth header when challenged, to stop credentials being spewed all over the place. However jira never sends a challenge.

There may be more elegant ways to do this, but, the following works for me. Replace jira.auth.basic(...) with:

jira.client.addRequestInterceptor(new HttpRequestInterceptor() {
void process(HttpRequest httpRequest, HttpContext httpContext) {
httpRequest.addHeader('Authorization', 'Basic ' + 'admin:admin'.bytes.encodeBase64().toString())
}
})

(where admin:admin is username:password).

Making this change made your test class work for me.

(Ref http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication)

[JamieA]

As an aside... I highly recommend getting Fiddler, then doing: jira.setProxy('localhost', 8888, 'http'). Then you can analyse all the requests/responses.

[Wim Deblauwe]

Thanks for the perfect answer and the tip!