JIRA REST API authentication from Confluence

[Ricardo Figueiredo]

In order to create issues in JIRA from a Confluence page I want to use JIRA's REST API. I wonder which is the best way to pass credentials and make authentication.

I have solved all connection issues except the authentication which I am using a fixed user and password inserted on Authorisation Header. I wanted to be able to pass the context user on the Confluence page.

Thank you for your help.

Best regards,
Ricardo Figueiredo

[Bob Swift · Accepted solution]

They all work and are used by many people, but do require proper setup and use :). JIRA Command Line Interface is also available. Both of the CLIs rely on JIRA interfaces like XML/RPC, SOAP, REST, and in a few cases JIRA UI access.

[kamal2222ahmed]

Yes, thanks Bob, The Documentation is a bit terse though

getIssue

java.util.Hashtable getIssue(java.lang.String token,
                             java.lang.String issueKey)
                             throws java.lang.Exception

    Gets an issue from a given issue key. The Hashtable returned have nested Hashtables for keys, components, affectsVersions, fixVersions and customFieldValues.

    Parameters:
        token - 
        issueKey - the key of an issue (e.g. JRA-111) 

token actually means the return object from jira1.login("","")
i could not get SOAP to work, since SOAPy is no longer updated.

[Bob Swift]

In that case, use the higher level CLI that has already dealt with all the lower level API complexities.