Quickly add all permissions for user/group via REST?

[Garrett G.]

Hi all,

I have a JIRA Server instance that I use for testing, and after I (on occasion) restart this instance and reset our database, I need to re-add project-level permissions for our testing users that don't exist in our live instance. I want to do this via a reset script, which is why I need to use REST. I know I can do this by adding each permission individually into the REST post message, but is there a simpler/faster way to update multiple group permissions for a specific scheme? Thanks in advance.

[Niclas Sandstroem]

Hi I think it looks like you can grant all you want per scheme.

https://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/cloud/#api/2/permissionscheme

What is your challenge here?

[Garrett G.]

The challenge is that using that endpoint, I have to make a REST call 32 times to grant all permissions to a new user/group. That is really slow and makes for a lot of messy code. I was hoping there was a way to bulk update the permissions - send one REST message, update all the permissions at once. I know this is unlikely, but I thought I would ask.

[Niclas Sandstroem]

If you create it for one project and use the same scheme for all? That is maybe not applicable for your testing.

[Volodymyr Krupach]

Niclas Sandström [Riada] is right and you can update all permissions for a permission scheme at once. Please check the update method:

{
    "name": "Example permission scheme",
    "description": "description",
    "permissions": [
        {
            "holder": {
                "type": "group",
                "parameter": "jira-developers"
            },
            "permission": "ADMINISTER_PROJECTS"
        },
        {
            "holder": {
                "type": "group",
                "parameter": "jira-developers"
            },
            "permission": "MANAGE_SPRINTS_PERMISSION"
        },
...
    ]
}