Obtain status category using Java Rest Java Client library

[MarkRx]

Hi,

I'm using the JRJC rest API and am looking for a way to get status category information. I do not see any way to do this using the JRJC libraries. Is this missing because the targeted minimum JIRA version does not have status categories supplied via REST? Would there be an easy way for me obtain the status categories?

[Petar Petrov (Appfire) · Accepted solution]

Which JIRA version are you targeting?
The REST API contains endpoints for getting information about all categories, as well as the current category of a given issue (since JIRA version 6.1):

GET /rest/api/2/statuscategory
GET /rest/api/2/statuscategory/{idOrKey}

More information can be found here.

I don't think these are exposed in the Java REST client, though - you can invoke them using an arbitrary REST client.

[MarkRx]

Yes. Our environment is based on 7.x. However those endpoints are not available in the java rest client library.

[Petar Petrov (Appfire)]

No, they aren't - just use an arbitrary client like Apache's httpclient or Rest-assured.

[MarkRx]

Ok I will look in to that. Thanks

[Petar Petrov (Appfire)]

There is also an open pull request by Jamie Echlin so you may want to watch that as well: https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/jira-rest-java-client/pull-requests/34/add-status-category/diff.

[Junio Fernandes]

Yeah! There's an open pull request since 2016!!! How often are those pull requests analysed? I made my self implementation over master to gather this functionality.