How do I get assignee using the Atlassian API?

Question

Hi all! I am new to using the Atlassian API. What I want to get back is the person who is assigned to a ticket. I got the GET request working and am able to retrieve all the Service Management data and can select fields like project, description, and summary. When I looked at the API docs, it seemed like the assignee was called displayName in the json object. How do I get back either assignee or person who created the issue?

For context, I'm using Python to interact with the API.

Kalyan Sattaluri_iinm1n · Answer

Hello @Jack Kower

I am not a developer and need to wait for others to pitch in, but if

'project': fields.get('project', {}).get('key'),     gave you the project key, doesnt below give you display name?

'assignee': fields.get('assignee', {}).get('displayName'),

Jack Kower_3rsk6r · Answer

I'm using the url

https://<name_of_org>.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/search.This is what I get when I do a general request. I want the assignee only.
So yes, same json object. I was able to do a GET on just project with this snippet'project': fields.get('project', {}).get('key'),I am wondering how I would achieve this same result. I tried 'assignee': fields.get('displayName', {}).get('displayName', ''), but it returned an empty string, even though I know I can get back multiple objects. Do you know how I can change that code?

Kalyan Sattaluri_iinm1n · Answer

Hello @Jack Kower

Am not sure what are you asking. Are you using below end point?

/rest/api/2/issue/{issueIdOrKey}

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v2/api-group-issues/#api-rest-api-2-issue-issueidorkey-get

Assignee object has different fields available, displayName, email, accountID for example.

Same with created object.