# Jira's /rest/api/3/field/search, response should contain "nextPage" but doesn't

**URL:** <https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/jiras-rest-api-3-field-search-response-should-contain-nextpage-but-doesnt/87114>\
**Category:** Jira Cloud\
**Tags:** search, rest-api\
**Created:** [December 11, 2024, 5:58pm UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/jiras-rest-api-3-field-search-response-should-contain-nextpage-but-doesnt/87114 "2024-12-11T17:58:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![AndreasEbert](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/atlassiandeveloper/user_avatar/community.developer.atlassian.com/andreasebert/32/38902_2.png) [@AndreasEbert](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/u/AndreasEbert)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 5:58pm UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/jiras-rest-api-3-field-search-response-should-contain-nextpage-but-doesnt/87114/1 "2024-12-11T17:58:57Z")

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[According to docu](https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-issue-fields/#api-rest-api-3-field-search-get-response), the response of `/rest/api/3/field/search` should contain `nextPage`:

> **nextPage** string  
> If there is another page of results, the URL of the next page.  
> Format: `uri`

But in practice it doesn’t. I tested with 3 different Jiras, and in none of them `nextPage` is there. In fact, the responses look like this:

```json
{
  "maxResults": 50,
  "startAt": 0,
  "total": 308,
  "isLast": false,
  "values": [...]
}

```

This is a problem for us in our app, because we rely on `nextPage` as documented. If it’s not there, then our app thinks that there are no more pages and stops fetching them. That’s bad; we miss all customfields besides the first 50 (default/max page-size).

@Atlassian, are we using this REST API in a wrong way? Or is the docu outdated and we shouldn’t rely on `nextPage` and use `startAt` instead to manually build the next page-URL? Please either correc the docu, or add `nextPage` back to this REST-API.

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**Author:** ![AndreasEbert](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/atlassiandeveloper/user_avatar/community.developer.atlassian.com/andreasebert/32/38902_2.png) [@AndreasEbert](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/u/AndreasEbert)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2024, 1:29pm UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/jiras-rest-api-3-field-search-response-should-contain-nextpage-but-doesnt/87114/2 "2024-12-17T13:29:16Z")

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Hm, not getting any response here. Let’s see who I can tag… @ibuchanan, maybe you can help and route this to someone who might help here? Would be much appreciated.

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**Author:** ![ibuchanan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/atlassiandeveloper/user_avatar/community.developer.atlassian.com/ibuchanan/32/35815_2.png) [@ibuchanan](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/u/ibuchanan)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/jiras-rest-api-3-field-search-response-should-contain-nextpage-but-doesnt/87114/3 "2024-12-17T15:52:15Z")

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@AndreasEbert,

Seems like a straight-forward bug. Can you report it to [developer support](https://developer.atlassian.com/support)?

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**Author:** ![AndreasEbert](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/atlassiandeveloper/user_avatar/community.developer.atlassian.com/andreasebert/32/38902_2.png) [@AndreasEbert](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/u/AndreasEbert)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 10:31am UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/jiras-rest-api-3-field-search-response-should-contain-nextpage-but-doesnt/87114/4 "2025-01-02T10:31:34Z")

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Ok, I created [ECOHELP-53726](https://ecosystem.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/34/ECOHELP-53726). Thanks.

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**Author:** ![AndreasEbert](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/atlassiandeveloper/user_avatar/community.developer.atlassian.com/andreasebert/32/38902_2.png) [@AndreasEbert](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/u/AndreasEbert)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 8:05am UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/jiras-rest-api-3-field-search-response-should-contain-nextpage-but-doesnt/87114/5 "2025-01-03T08:05:10Z")

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And Atlassian was able to reproduce, and created public bug-ticket [https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-85546](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-85546) for this. For anyone reading this and also being affected: Please vote on that ticket.