Search using REST API

[Lee Correll]

I'm attempting to generate the URL to search for users using the REST API, but not getting reasonable results.

For example, if I want to search for users whose names start with "A", I would expect to use

https://mycompany.jira.com/rest/api/2/user/search?username='\Aa*'

where \A is the regular expression anchor for start of expression, start with the letter a, and have any number of characters after the a.

What I get back is []

?? JIRA documentation says I can use a string after the username expression, and a string is defined as having a pattern, and a pattern is defined by W3 as being able to use a regular expression bounded by delimiters. Even if I do without delimiters "...?username=a*" I get a response which indicates no matches - if I just do "...?username=a", I get anything with an A in it - not that merely starts with A. (I tested this with a B, and my first response was a name starting with...A.)

Any ideas?

[Faisal]

Hi Lee,

Actually to search for user starting with an 'A', you can just run the following REST request:

curl -u admin:admin http://localhost:2990/jira/rest/api/2/user/search?username=a

Based on my quick test, the above request will return users with username starting with A.

Hope that this will help.

[Lee Correll]

if I run that, i get JSON results back that include things like ".../rest/api/2/user?username=tadkins" as well as "...rest/api/2/user?username=mwagner""

So it's picking folks with an "a" anywhere in the username. That's why I think a regular expression is required...unless it doesn't really use regular expressions.

I'm in OnDemand, which might be different, although I can't see why.

[Lee Correll]

Doesn't look like there's a solution. Moving on...

[Lee Correll]

Didn't find an answer to this unfortunately, so I wound up running thru the entire alphabet, then removing duplicate entries. :(