Jira rest client in javascript giving error

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20812158

Question 

<html>
<head>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js">
</script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){

$.ajax({
            type: "GET",
            dataType: 'jsonp',
            url: "http://myJira.com/rest/api/2/issue/MA-6614/comment",
            username : "myusrName",
            password : "myPwd",
            success: function (data) {
                 console.log( "Sample of data:", JSON.stringify(data)); 

            },
            error: function (errormessage) {
              console.log( "errorMessage:", errormessage); 
            }
        });
});


</script>
</head>
<body> 
</body>
</html>

While running the above code I am getting SyntaxError: missing ; before statement error. I read somewhere Access-Control-Allow-Origin should be used to solve problem. But I don't find a good documentation anywhere about how to use with Jira.

"UPDATE"
The above error I am getting if I have already loggedin in jira. If I logout in jira and then run the above code then getting error "NetworkError: 401 Unauthorized - http://myjira.com/rest/api/2/issue/MA-6614/comment?callback=jQuery1102010440085066514837_1388216960965&_=1388216960966"

It seems the above code has two problem. 1. It is not able to authenticate in jira. 2. if we already authenticate in jira (that means browser has cookies)and make the request then syntax error is shown because of jsonp.

Was it helpful?

Solution

So I got the answer. Support in jira is revoked for authenticating from javascript. Iitally jsonP was the option but now it is not possible. We have to do server side authentication of jira. Example here

https://developer.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/JIRA+REST+API+Example+-+Basic+Authentication

OTHER TIPS

You can do this with javascript.

function request(){
  var xhr = getXHR();

  xhr.addEventListener("error", transferFailed, false);
  xhr.addEventListener("abort", transferCanceled, false);

  xhr.open("GET", baseURL+"/rest/api/2/issue/KEY-1", false);
  xhr.setRequestHeader("Authorization", "Basic "+btoa("admin:admin"))
  xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
  xhr.send();
}

Ensure that it is synchronous and jira server conf has:

Header always set Access-Control-Allow-Credentials "true" Header set Access-Control-Allow-Headers "Authorization, Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept"

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