The best way to get nested items for all types of jira issue

[ibuchanan]

@AndyJames,

Thanks for explaining your situation. The bad news is the mechanisms you described for “nested items” are all going to be deprecated per:
https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/deprecation-notice-hierarchy-levels/

The good news is there is now a new attribute, parentId that is unifying the concept “hierarchy” in Jira. Aside from deprecation, you can learn more about the APIs for hierarchy in this developer announcement:

Removing hierarchy level IDs from Jira cloud platform APIs

Change notice: Removing hierarchy level IDs from next-gen APIs The six-month deprecation period for these changes begins on 1 March 2021. What is changing? We are removing hierarchy level IDs and entityIDs from next-gen project APIs. We are changing database structure of Jira issue type hierarchy levels and as result they will no longer exist as standalone entities and there will be no IDs to return. There are four APIs at the moment that return these IDs: (1) Get project hierarchy v2 + (2…