How To Access JIRA's REST API from Backend?

[ShenbagaMurugan]

Hi, I am trying to develop a plugin using React frontend and Spring Boot backend. In that, I need to get details from JIRA using JIRA’s REST API from the backend. But I am not having the user’s session to access the REST APIs. Can you please let me know how can I access the JIRA REST APIs from Java side suing the logged in user’s session?

[sven.schatter]

Hi @ShenbagaMurugan,

Have you seen the README of atlassian-connect-spring-boot? More specifically, the “Making API requests to the product as the add-on”-section? There it says:

atlassian-connect-spring-boot will automatically sign requests from your add-on to an installed host product with JSON Web Tokens. To make a request, just autowire an AtlassianHostRestClients object into your class.

When responding to an incoming request, outgoing requests to relative URLs will be made to the current authenticated host product.

private AtlassianHostRestClients atlassianHostRestClients;

public void doSomething() {
    atlassianHostRestClients.authenticatedAsAddon().getForObject("/rest/api/example", Void.class);

When not responding to an incoming request, outgoing requests to absolute URLs will be authenticated with the credentials of a stored installation with the corresponding base URL. The use of this feature is deprecated.

As you’re saying you want to perform a request as a given user, make sure your descriptor contains the ACT_AS_USER scope and use the client like this:

atlassianHostRestClients
    .authenticatedAs(hostUser)
    .getForObject("/rest/api/example", Void.class);

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Sven

[ShenbagaMurugan]

Thanks a lot. We are now able to call the REST APIs. We were searching for this in the official documentation. But found it in the README