What is the user key in JIRA API?

[Paul Nichols]

I'm unclear as to what the user key refers to when trying to perform user operations through the JIRA api

https://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/latest/#d2e3476

[Pedro Cora · Accepted solution]

Paul,

This returns the user key in the app_user table. It's related to the ability to rename users and stores the mappings.

In JIRA 6, all users have a unique key stored in this table that never changes.

This call returns such key or allows you to GET the results using this data.

[Paul Nichols]

Ah, I see: I read the documentation as saying both the username and the key need to be provided. Looks like one or the other will suffice. Thank you!

[Pedro Cora]

Yeah, from my tests, just one worked fine.