jira rest api version discovery?

[steve simon]

how do i find out which version of thr jira reply i should expect - 2.0 ro 2.0.alpha1; or is it just trial and error. i expected the sysinfo api to return the rest version as well as the jira version but ir does not seem to - in jira 4.4.4 thanks steve

[steve simon · Accepted solution]

I am a bit disappointed that there is no way to discover which version of the api the currently connected

server supports - other than either "try it and see" or having a client side table mapping jira

release versions to rest API versions, however this seems to be the best I can do, so be it.

Thanks to those who ansered.

-Steve

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

You can go to the JIRA versions REST documentation and find out the different methods. You can see whether is 2.0 or 2.0.alpha1 in there.

http://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/4.4.4/ shows it is 2.0.alpha1 for JIRA 4.4.4.

[steve simon]

this describes which aips are available, but if i make a request using the api version "latest" then how do i know which json reply format i should expect? i would have expectef the sysinfo api to returnan array of supported api versions, the "latest" version being the newest and the last enter in the array, but this does not exist. -steve

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

latest is just a symbolic link to the latest JIRA version out. If you are on an earlier JIRA version (4.4.4 here), you won't get the APIs used in latest docs.