Get create issue meta deprecated period

[Flo]

Hi,

I've seen createmeta endpoint being deprecated in Jira Software 8.4 :

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jiracore/jira-software-8-5-rest-api-change-log-978216326.html

I didn't find any info regarding the depreciation period. When should we expect this method to be removed ?

What will be returned by the endpoint once the method is removed ?

Thanks ! 

[Andy Heinzer · Accepted solution]

Hi Flo,

I understand you are looking to find more information on when this particular endpoint will be removed.  We have a part about such changes to REST API resources I recommend over in Atlassian REST API policy.

The minimum period of time appears to be 6 months between deprecation notice and when this endpoint will actually stop working.  I believe this starts when 8.4 reaches its general release, which according to the release notes for Jira Server 8.4 was 9 September 2019.  That said the policy is written in such a way that there could be other policies that conflict here in which case the most restrictive policy is applied.  Also if there is a security problem with an endpoint, these could be removed sooner, but in this case I am not aware of any such vulnerability at this time.

As for what response is returned when this endpoint is completely discontinued, well, I'm not exactly sure yet. I would expect it to return something in the nature of an HTTP 400 error for bad request, but only once this 6 month period has passed and then only in a newer version of Jira Server that is released after that 6 month period.

I hope this helps.

Andy

[Flo]

Thanks for your reply.

From my understanding, there is no way to know at the moment what will be returned exactly when the method will be removed, which means I can't handle that case in my code as of today. The best way to handle that is to look closely at the release notes for the next versions and then release a new version of my app when the method will be removed.