REST API get custom field values

[mitchellsimoens]

Been searching quite a bit for a couple days and have not been able to get the values for a custom field (customfield-10040). Tried the following:

issue/createmeta?projectKeys=TEST&issuetypeIds=1&expand=projects.issuetypes.fields
issue/TEST-1/editmeta?expand=projects.issuetypes.fields
customFieldOption/10040
customFieldOption/customfield-10040

Some of these I get some data about the field (name, autoCompleteUrl, operations, schema, etc) but never the list of values that I can use. So how can I get an array of values for a custom field?

I've done this with SOAP but isn't that deprecated and plus I want to use one endpoint for all.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist] · Accepted solution]

Fields returned by createmeta and editmeta should have an allowedvalues attribute in json.

[mitchellsimoens]

Ah... looks like not all fields have allowedValues which is misleading maybe. We have a custom field that has selections for which Browser a bug is seen in. In our Jira site it shows a list of suggestions but the createmeta call doesn't show an allowedValues. But looking at another custom field it does have a list of allowedValues.

To get the suggestions that Jira site shows for the Browser custom field, is there an API to hit for it? Is that what 'labels/130370/suggest?query=abcd' is for? I don't see it in the REST API: https://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/latest/

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

What type of field is it? Also, are you seeing the options in the same project and for the same issuetype? If not, the context could be the issue.

[uuuu]

is it possible to get customfield values from API where the return value for custom field is not in a format such as customfields_10000 rather the name that was assigned to in when created in JIRA?

[Andrew Mainland]

I'm very shocked at the state jira's back end seems to be in. I see multiple types of calls to the backend and tons of companies looking for simple answers. I think Jira is very lucky to be where it is with code in this state.