Project-specific custom variables

[Hartmut Leister]

I want to read custom variables in regards to jira project via API / jira-python.

This project-specific configuration should then be used in some (external) scripts.

For now my best options seems to be to append some JSON (or similar) to the description, which could then be read and evaluated: 

>>> import re, json

# fake some description
>>> description = """some project
/* project variables */
config = { "foo": "bar" }"""

# read the data from description variable
>>> re.search( r"config = (\{.*\})", description)
<re.Match object; span=(37, 62), match='config = { "foo": "bar" }'>

# evaluate in python
>>> json.loads( re.search( r"config = (\{.*\})", description).groups()[0])
{'foo': 'bar'}

Do you see some better solution?

(Perhaps even one, that could be evaluated from Jira Automation?)