Importing Workflow or Workflow Statuses in App

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Hi,
I would like to create an app that among other things generates new workflows. I figured that I could create new workflows using the API, however, that would be quite cumbersome + as of now, it is not possible to create custom workflow statuses via the API. I noticed, that some statuses are imported during the Jira Service Management Project creation so there should be some way to achieve this? I also learned that it is possible to export your workflows to XML or to the marketplace but I did not figure out if it is possible to import these in a programmatic way. Do you have any insights on this?

at least status creation appears to be an essential feature for app development, I am really wondering how this has not been implemented yet…

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For anyone encountering the same issue, what I have ended up doing is creating projects from the templates and then deleting everything except the statuses again. This at least gives me access to a wider set of statuses which did fulfill my needs for now but it was a lot of work. For anybody having to do the same, contact me, maybe I can share some of my code with you. @atlassian, please provide a REST API point for this, this is such a simple feature!