I am sure a lot of us used JIRA for bug tracking, sprint planning, story telling, features logging, and etc… Most of the QA I know somewhat touches JIRA one way or the other. I will walk you thought how to connect to JIRA api cloud, also give out some of the pain points I had from my experiences.
Before I listed out the steps, I expected you know some basic about JIRA on how to setup projects as admin, create issues, and use jql. If not, please view this video
or (https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira/jira-documentation-1556.html) to get help.
Assuming you already have JIRA cloud setup, like for an example, http://yourproject.atlassian.net, and have an atlassian cloud user account, here is the step by step, on how to connect to your JIRA cloud API.
1. First you need to encoded your username (JIRA cloud email login) and password in base64. Let say your JIRA cloud login address is abc@hello.com and password is 1234, you will encode this as: #echo – n “abc@hello.com:1234” | base64 to get the encoded string for your basic JIRA api authentication. Make sure you use “-n” because echo will attach a trailing newline char at the end.
2.Now you can connect using this simple ruby script:
require 'httparty'
## Create your JQL query here
jql = 'text~ "' + "find X".to_s + '"' + " and project = YOURPROJECT"
yourencoded = "" ## Put your encoded string on step #1 above
## Header
@jurl= "https://yourcompany.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/search?jql=" + URI.encode(uri_text)
### Now Loop through each issue from the search
response=HTTParty.get(
@surl,
headers: {
"Authorization"=> 'Basic '+ yourencoded.to_s,
"Content-Type"=> 'application/json'
}
)
result=JSON.parse(response.body)
result["issues"].each do | issue |
### Now refer to the JIRA issue doc, you can do your logic here
end
3. you are done, I will put this in some kind of chart tool so you can create your own dashboard