Get emailAddress of user with REST API

[Andrew Culver]

I'm using the REST API to get the user object from an instance running Jira 7.7.0. I'm using my own credential (full administrator permissions) and searching for myself:

https://jiradev.uwo.ca/rest/api/2/user?username=aculver

This returns:

{"self":"https://jiradev.uwo.ca/rest/api/2/user?username=aculver","key":"aculver","name":"aculver","avatarUrls":{"48x48":"https://jiradev.uwo.ca/secure/useravatar?ownerId=aculver&avatarId=10830","24x24":"https://jiradev.uwo.ca/secure/useravatar?size=small&ownerId=aculver&avatarId=10830","16x16":"https://jiradev.uwo.ca/secure/useravatar?size=xsmall&ownerId=aculver&avatarId=10830","32x32":"https://jiradev.uwo.ca/secure/useravatar?size=medium&ownerId=aculver&avatarId=10830"},"displayName":"Andrew Culver","active":true,"timeZone":"America/Toronto","locale":"en_CA","groups":{"size":7,"items":[]},"applicationRoles":{"size":1,"items":[]},"expand":"groups,applicationRoles"}

No emailAddress attribute, which should be there according to the REST API docs: https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/#api-api-2-user-get 

I've run the same REST call against two older instances running 6.3.13 and 7.3.6. Both return the emailAddress attribute.

How do I get the email address of a user with the REST API in 7.7.0?

I just posted this 10 minutes ago and it was marked as spam and removed from the list of questions. This isn't spam! :|

[Andrew Culver · Accepted solution]

The global setting User email visibility was set to hidden in the 7.7.0 instance. Even though I was using the API as a system administrator user, and that user is able to view email addresses in the GUI, they remain hidden in the API unless that setting is changed.

Changing that setting allowed the emailAddress attribute to appear in the API.

I've asked Atlassian if this is working as intended or not.

[Vyshnavi Bandarupalli]

I changed the user email visibility to public but still could not see the email details of the users

I am using rest api rest/api/2/user/assignable/search?project

Can you please help

[Thomas Deiler]

Dear @Andrew Culver,

what I first noticed, that the upper link points to a cloud api doc - cloud an server react differently.

But, if your result is not looking like the example of GET /rest/api/2/user, then I think you have discovered a bug.

So long

Thomas

[Andrew Culver]

Thanks. I did look at the latest server API doc as well, after posting.

I have opened a support case with Atlassian.