how to retrieve installed jira version via REST api

[Agustin Martin]

I can retrieve my installed stash version via REST api by using the URL:

http://www.example.com/stash/rest/api/1.0/application-properties

which yields:

{
   "version": "3.8.1",
   "buildNumber": "3008001",
   "buildDate": "1430730508586",
   "displayName": "Stash"
}

However when I try the expected JIRA similar URL:

http://www.example.com/jira/rest/api/2/application-properties

I get a quite long json without any version information.

Is there any REST api for retrieving my installed JIRA instance version?

Thanks!

[Kian Stack Mumo Systems · Accepted solution]

Hi Agustin, you should be able to retrieve the version like this: http://example.com/jira/rest/api/2/serverInfo. For me it returned a JSON with the server information. 

Hope this helps! 

Kian

[Agustin Martin]

Thanks @Kian Stack [Mumo Systems] !! That was fast!

[Agustin Martin]

Note that I already have a hackish way for retrieving my jira version by requesting a missing page and getting the version from the 404.html page, but that's not an ideal solution: curl -s -k -X GET http://www.example.com/jira/404.html | grep footer-build-information | cut -d'(' -f 2 | cut -d'#' -f 1