Building a Jira Search Tool in BoxLang
Developers seem to have a love/hate (or perhaps hate/despise) relationship with Jira. I’ve never minded it, but the biggest issue for me is that if I haven’t used it in a while, it can be overwhelming. Yesterday I was thinking about this and wondering if perhaps I could build my own tooling to interact with Jira via an API, if it even had one. Turns out, of course they have an API and it’s not terribly difficult to use. With that in mind, I whipped up a quick tool to search Jira via the command line with BoxLang.
Jira API Basics
The docs for Jira’s API are pretty good and cover the huge set of operations you can perform with it.
Your root API url will be based on your... more →
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