Jira Issue links in Confluence page

[Jesús Jorge Muñoz]

Hello everyone,

I am trying to retrieve the jira issues linked in a Confluence page by using REST API, but it seems not possible.

When I try the following URLs:

/rest/api/content/{pageId}

/rest/api/content/{pageId}/property

/rest/api/content/{pageId}?expand=metadata

/rest/api/content/{pageId}?expand=body

It doesn't appear anywhere any related info with Jira issue links a Confluence page has. Is that even possible? Because I've searched in REST API docs and didn't find anything related to it.

Thanks in advance,

Jesús

[ManuR]

Hello Jesús,

You can achieve this using {{/rest/api/content/{pageId}?expand=body}} by adding the storage component at the end so your URL will look like this:

/rest/api/content/{pageId}?expand=body.storage

This will give you the storage format of your page where you will be able to see your Jira issue macros.

They have the following format:

<ac:structured-macro ac:name="jira" ac:schema-version="1">

Cheers,
Manu

[Jesús Jorge Muñoz]

Hello Emmanuel,

Thanks for your reply.

The solution you provided works well if I add a Jira macro to my page. However, that's not necessary if we want to have a Jira issue linked to a Confluence page.

If we link a issue to a page from Jira, no macro is added to a page and both are linked as well. Several pages of my Confluence instance are linked with this method.

Anyway, thanks for your solution! I hope it could be useful for someone.

Kind regards,

Jesús

[Gianluca]

Hi Jesús,

Did you find any solution? Same problem here. 

Kind regards,

Gianluca

[Jesús Jorge Muñoz]

Hi @Gianluca,

I'm afraid there is no suitable solution using REST API in Cloud version, at least from my experience's point of view. 

The only way I could get these info was writing a Node.js script that polls remote links from Jira Cloud issue, saving this info in a database/file and reading this database from Confluence macro. 

Keep in mind this workaround was implemented for a very specific use case. I would try to use Jira issue macro instead.

Hope it helps.

Jesús

[NotTheRealStephenSifersNOPENOPENOPENOPE]

Have you checked this out?

https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/REST/7.8.1/?_ga=2.227384607.327425188.1522064553-1663633456.1521148200#api/2/issue-getRemoteIssueLinks

https://developer.atlassian.com/server/jira/platform/using-fields-in-remote-issue-links/

[Jesús Jorge Muñoz]

Hi Stephens,

Thanks for your reply. I've checked the two links you provided, but I don't see how they can help me.

I think some important details of my context are missing. I am developing an add-on in Confluence Cloud, using ACE. I need somehow to get this info by making a request to the Confluence Cloud instance.

Since those links are related to Jira Server they can't address this problem.

Sorry for the missing info.