How do I get the latest comment via REST API call

[Snehangshu Sarkar]

Hi Everyone,

I've been working on a project where I want to fetch the latest comment(if any) from Jira issue and update it in our tool. Now, when I am using the below endpoint, I am getting all comments which are unnecessary for me. 

https://jira.dev.corp.adobe.com/rest/api/2/search?jql=issue=AMSAUTO-10517&fields=comment

Response - 

"key": "AMSAUTO-10517",
"fields": {
"comment": {
"comments": [
{
"self": "https://jira.dev.corp.adobe.com/rest/api/2/issue/5187946/comment/16530402",
"id": "16530402",

One observation - I could see that I can get the comment by using "fields=comment" in the jql search, so, is there any way to grab the comments under comment?

Please look into it and help me with this.

Regards,

Snehangshu Sarkar

[Alexey Matveev]

Hello,

You need to go through all comments in the comments array ("comments": [.....])  and find the latest one.

[Snehangshu Sarkar]

Hi Alexey,

Thanks for the update.

Is there any way to get the latest comment only via REST API or grab the comments under comment in endpoint? Because If I am able to grab the comments, then I can use StartAt=maxResults to get only the latest one.

Regards,

Snehangshu Sarkar

[Alexey Matveev]

There is no special rest api for getting the latest comment. You need to iterate over all comments and find the latest one.

[Eric López]

You can order the result from the latest and ask to return the first

something like

https://YOURSITE.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue/ISSUEID/comment?orderBy=-created&maxResults=0&expand=renderedBody