REST or Java-API for user anonymization?

[Johannes Heger (CD)]

Hello, do Jira Server has a REST or a Java API for user anonymization?

Anoymizing a single user takes about 13 min, and we have to anonymize 10 - 15 user per month. I think of implementing some tool-support here.

See also:

• JRASERVER-71251 Improve User Anonymize Feature
• JSDSERVER-6886 Allow bulk-nonymizing users

Kind regards, Johannes

[Hana Kučerová · Accepted solution]

Hello @Johannes Heger (CD) ,

yes, I think both is available.

You can find more information here:

• REST
• Java

[Johannes Heger (CD)]

Hana, thank you! Tody I anonymized some users by REST and that worked. I'm thinking of anonymizing users in batch.

[Hana Kučerová]

Hi @Johannes Heger (CD) ,

great news! How do you plan to do in batch? Loop through the set of users and call the endpoint for each of them? To be honest I haven't test this functionality much yet, so I would grateful for any information and results. Thank you.

[Johannes Heger (CD)]

Hi Hana, I'm investigating automating this. I'll get back to you the next weeks.

[Viru Hosamath]

Hello @Hana Kučerová   - We are trying to anonymize a user on the JIRA cloud using the following REST API : 

https://ourcompany.net/rest/api/2/user/anonymization

We are getting a 404 error. Can we anonymize a user on JIRA cloud?

[Hana Kučerová]

Hi @Viru Hosamath ,

I found out your question has been answered here.

[Johannes Heger (CD)]

@Hana Kučerová , I have written a Python script to anonymize Jira-users in bulk. It's not announced nor released so far. Maybe you're curious about it. Have a look if you like at https://bitbucket.org/jheger/anonymize_jira_users/src/master/. Any feedback is appreciated regarding usage and doc.

I have anonymized 60 users in two prod-instances so far, and hundreds of users in test-instances. 

Kind regards, Johannes

[Hana Kučerová]

Hi @Johannes Heger (CD) ,

this is awesome, thank you very much for sharing!