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JIRA 5.0 REST API deep dive#jirarest

Rich Manalang (@rmanalan)Developer Advocate, Atlassian

Get Some REST

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JIRA 5.0 REST API deep dive#jirarest

Rich Manalang (@rmanalan)Developer Advocate, Atlassian

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JIRA 5.0 REST API deep dive#jirarest

Rich Manalang (@rmanalan)Developer Advocate, Atlassian

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I NEED SOME REST!

$ whoami

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You’re a polyglot

• Transport: HTTP• Data formats: XML, JSON• Patterns: authentication, authorization, UI, algorithms,

etc.• Data exchange/integration: REST, SOAP

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Common things...

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JIRA 5 REST API

What’s Changed?

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CRUD Issues

Search for issues, get back issues

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• Filter the fields you get back in a response• Metadata• Add/delete remote issue links

... more

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• Representations in JSON, JSONP, and XML• Hypermedia inside entities• Versioned URI (/rest/api/2, /rest/api/latest)• HTTP caching support• ActivityStreams API

Other goodies you should know about

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• OAuth 1.0a• Examples: https://bitbucket.org/rmanalan/atlassian-

oauth-examples• Tutorial at https://developer.atlassian.com/display/

JIRADEV/JIRA+REST+API+Example+-+OAuth+authentication

• Basic authentication

Authentication

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• rest-console for Chrome: http://bit.ly/q7lGic• http-console: https://github.com/cloudhead/http-console• Documentation: https://developer.atlassian.com/

display/JIRADEV/JIRA+REST+API+Tutorials• Interactive REST API documentation coming soon to

developer.atlassian.com!

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Tools for your toolbox

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• Rich Manalang (rmanalang@atlassian.com) / @rmanalan

• Kyle Miller (kmiller@atlassian.com)

• @atlassiandev

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Contacts

Thank you!