How do I retrieve issues of specific status with JQL

[TomaszR]

Entering a url, or running with curl, like:

https://<myurl>/rest/api/2/search?jql=project=<myproject>&status=closed&fields=id,key,status,project&maxResults=5

returns me 5 items in my project but with all statuses. For some reason I can't query for a specific status.

The output (part of it) is:

{

      "expand": "schema,names",

      "startAt": 0,

      "maxResults": 5,

      "total": 727,

      "issues": [

        {

          "expand": "editmeta,renderedFields,transitions,changelog,operations",

          "id": "79577",

          "self": "https://<myurl>/rest/api/2/issue/79577",

          "key": "<myproject>-774",

          "fields": {

            "project": {

              "self": "https://<myurl>/rest/api/2/project/<myproject>",

              "id": "14421",

              "key": "<myproject>",

              "name": "<myproject>",

              "avatarUrls": {

                (...)

              }

            },

            "status": {

              "self": "<myurl>/rest/api/2/status/1",

              "description": "The issue is open and ready for the assignee to start work on it.",

              "iconUrl": "https://<myurl>/images/icons/statuses/open.png",

              "name": "Open",

              "id": "1"

            }

          }

        },(...)

      ]

    }

How to query for a given status? Many thanks.

[Randall Robertson · Accepted solution]

Your parentheses need to be properly encoded:

( = %28

) = %29

An easy way to get the proper encoding is to

1. build your search in JIRA first
2. When you have the results you want, click the Views button in Issue Navigator
3. Right-click the XML link and copy the link address. It has all the proper formatting already.
4. Paste everything that comes after 'jqlQuery=' into your code and add your variables and such.

[Frank Nesse]

5,5 years later but still... Great tip!

[shubham]

5.10 years and still a great tip

[Olga Ivanova]

7 years 8 months later and still a great tip, thank you!

[TomaszR]

YES! Finally got it working, thank you!!

$url = 'https://<oururl>.jira.com/rest/api/2/search?jql=project%20%3D%20<ourteam>%20AND%20status%20in%20(%22In%20Analysis%22%2C%20%22In%20Development%22)%20ORDER%20BY%20priority%20DESC%2C%20status%20DESC&fields%3Did,key,summary,priority,status,project,assignee';

[Sumukh K]

Thank you, this helped a lot!

[Randall Robertson]

You still have an = symbol in the fields statement. Change that to %3D as mentioned earlier and see what happens.

[Remigiusz Jackowski]

JQL for statuses:

status in (resolved)

In your example

https://<myurl>/rest/api/2/search?jql=project IN (<myproject>) AND status in (resolved)&fields=id,key,status,project&maxResults=5

Please, don't use "=" in URLs variables. Change them to %3D or use "IN". You can use URLencode to get rid of them.

https://<myurl>/rest/api/2/search?jql=project%3D<myproject>%20AND%20status%3Dresolved&fields=id,key,status,project&maxResults=5

When you search for issue in JIRA's Issue Browser, you can click "Advanced" link, to show current query as JQL.

[TomaszR]

Dziekuje i pozdrawiam!

[Remigiusz Jackowski]

Proszę bardzo :)

[Olamide Subair]

@Tomasz Rykala , is the 'jira.com' bit necessary?

[TomaszR]

Still doesn't help. My items are always sorted by ID descending.

Current query:

$url = 'https://<oursite>.jira.com/rest/api/2/search?jql=project%3D' . $TEAM . '%20AND%20status%20IN%20(%22in%20analysis%22,%22in%20development%22)&fields%3Did,key,summary,priority,status,project,assignee%20ORDER%20BY%20priority,status%20asc'

[John D_ Lewis]

Did you ever get this working? I'm having trouble getting the orderBy setting to work properly...

[Randall Robertson]

@John D_ Lewis The "current query" example in the question you are asking about has field parameters in the middle of the JQL parameter, so it isn't going to work regardless of how you set up the order by clause in the JQL. Do you have an example you are working with that you want to post?

[John D_ Lewis]

I was able to get this query to work (from a nodejs app): "https://" + user + ":" + token + "@site-name-here.atlassian.net/rest/api/latest/search?jql=project='project-name-here' ORDER BY 'key'&maxResults=100" - took me a while to get the single-quotes and spaces working properly, but now it's ironed out (and looks so simple!)

[TomaszR]

Hi, could you help me with this please? I can't get my results to sort.

...&fields=id,key,summary,priority,status,project,assignee%20order%20by%20priority%20asc

doesn't sort my results by priosity in ascending order for example