Programmatically test if an issue is archived

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#1

Hi,
As reported here, Jira has introduced a way to archive an issue and put it in read only.

What is the best way to test this programmatically in order to change the UI of an app accordingly?

#2

Hello Sax,

to check whether issue is archived, you can use following method of the Issue object:

issue.isArchived()

Kind regards,
Markéta

#3

Hi Markéta,
Thanks for the hint!
Is there a way to get the same info from from the REST API?

#4

Hello Sax,

sorry for late answer. If you haven’t resolved this issue yet (or it might help someone else :slight_smile: ), you can obtain this information using standard Jira Issue API. For example, you can use following endpoint:

{baseUrl}/jira/rest/api/2/issue/{issueId}

which returns you complete issue information. In the case the issue is archived, you will find following attribute:

"archiveddate":"2020-02-11T14:22:29.803+0100"

in the case the issue is not archived (despite it might been in the past), you will see “null”:

"archiveddate":null

Hope it helped.
Kind regards,
Markéta

#5

Brilliant, thanks a lot!