RestAPi Jira getepics from project but comments field is empty

[Leon Stall]

Hi,

So I´m currently trying to fetch all of my epics from the project but am encountering the problem that the comments field is an empty array even tho it isn´t empty and that there are comments on the normal requested epic with the epicId.

I am using the following code:

async getEpicsByProject(projectIdOrKey: string): Promise<Issue[]> {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    this.getRestApiClient(3)
      .get(`search?jql=issuetype = Epic AND project = ${projectIdOrKey}`)
      .then(async (response) => {
        const epics: Promise<Issue[]> = Promise.all(
          response.data.issues.map(async (element: JiraIssue) => ({
            issueKey: element.key,
            assignee: {
              displayName: element.fields.assignee?.displayName,
              avatarUrls: element.fields.assignee?.avatarUrls,
            },
             comment: element.fields.comment ?? {
             comments: [],
             }
            subtasks: element.fields.subtasks,
            created: element.fields.created,
            }
       }

[Stefan Salzl · Accepted solution]

Hi @Leon Stall 

welcome to the community.

Could you tey to add the „fields“ query parameter to your call so that the response delivers all fields

this should be fields=*all according to the following docu:

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-issue-search/#api-rest-api-3-search-get-request-Query%20parameters

Best
Stefan

[Hana Kučerová]

Hi @Leon Stall ,

welcome to the Atlassian Community!

To be able to get issue comments, you need to use different REST API endpoint, see here