Reindex jira via Rest API

[paul grant]

When trying to initiate a jira re-index using rest via:

http://JIRA_INSTANCE/rest/api/2/reindex?type&indexComments&indexChangeHistory

I receive the following:

A task could not be found for the given task id

Is this feature fully implemented and has anyone managed to get this working?

Thanks,

Paul

[paul grant · Accepted solution]

Below is the perl code used to carry out a reindex (thought this may be helpful):

use strict;

use warnings;

 

use REST::Client;

use MIME::Base64;

use JSON;

 

my $JIRA_HOST = $ENV{JIRA_HOST};

 

&main;

 

sub main {

        my ($content, $subject);

 

        my $username = $ENV{JIRA_ADMIN_USER} || die "JIRA_ADMIN_USER env var not set";

        my $password = $ENV{JIRA_ADMIN_PASS} || die "JIRA_ADMIN_PASS env var not set";

 

        my $headers = {

                'X-Atlassian-Token' => 'nocheck',

                Authorization => 'Basic ' . encode_base64($username . ':' . $password)

        };

        my $client = REST::Client->new();

        $client->setHost($JIRA_HOST);

        my $response = $client->POST('/rest/api/2/reindex', $content, $headers);

 

        if($response->{_res}->{_rc} != 202) {

                $subject = "Error running JIRA reindex on $JIRA_HOST return code $response-{_res}->{_rc} <EOM>";

        } else {

                my $current_progress = 0;

                while($current_progress != 100) {

                        my $response = $client->GET('/rest/api/2/reindex?taskId', $headers)->{_res};

                        my $content = JSON->new->utf8->decode($response->{_content});

$current_progress = $content->{currentProgress};

                        sleep 10;

                }

                $subject = "JIRA weekly reindex has been completed for $JIRA_HOST <EOM>";

        }

 

        send_email();

}

[Eric Hartojo]

Hi Paul, 

I'm not familiar about perl but it seems like you have the answer that I'm looking for. I need to reindex jira and send email afterwards.

When I run your code in cmd, it is complaining that it can't locate REST/Client.pm

[paul grant]

I needed to include empty content in the POST request so instead of this:

$client->POST('/rest/api/2/reindex?type=FOREGROUND', $headers);

I had to include:

$client->POST('/rest/api/2/reindex?type=FOREGROUND', $content, $headers);

[Carla Ann Rowland]

did that solve it? Because I get the same error and I have Active Directory (if that makes a difference) so when I do full reindex get the error message.

[Radu Dumitriu]

Are you doing a post there ? or a get ? AFAIK, you need to POST it

(edit) ... and be sure to have a user which have admin permission for reindex.

[paul grant]

I'm doing this directly in the browser, I do have admin permissions.

[Luciano Fagundes]

Paul

As per our rest documentation you can do both GET and POST. Can you try to use the Google Chrome REST Console addon to do so as well?

Can you also try to run the REST command below?

• http://example.com:8080/jira/rest/api/2//reindex[POST, GET]

Hope it helps!

Cheers

Luciano Fagundes

[Radu Dumitriu]

As per your documentation, GET returns the status (if you have admin perms). POST is needed to start reindex, and this is what Paul tries to do. ;)