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clazzes.org's python3 jira-client is a python Command Line Interface(CLI) tool which can create and read issues for projects. It can be heavily customized with config files and supports both Basic Authentication and OAuth 1.0a.

Supported Commands:


Note: The values needed for the commands are prioritized in this order:

Command

...

line specified > custom config file with -c > user config file > global config file

Command

Required

Parameters

Optional

Parameters

DescriptionRequired PermissionsRequirements
listissues 

--project: The project's identifier in Jira


Pretty prints, to stdout, all the issues for a given project name, in order of creation descending.

Could redirect output to save in file.

Browsing Permissions
createissue

--project: The identifier of the project to add the issue to.

--summary: Headline of the issue to be created. Put in quotation marks if it contains spaces.

--desc: Description of the issue to be created.

--issuetype: How the issue should be categorized. Examples are bug, task, feature, subtask,...

--priority: Number from 1-5 where 1 is a Blocker and 5 is Trivial.

 --assignee: The username of the requested assignee, if one should be immediately assigned.

--parent: The identifier of the parent issue. Only required if you create a subtask.

Browsing

Creates an issue for the given project name.

Browsing and Issue Creation Permissions

initconfigNone

--conffile: Absolute path to the file where the config values should be saved/overwritten. If it doesn't exist, attempt to create it there.

Any of username, password, oAuthToken, consumerKey, consumerSecret, oAuthSecretToken, authMethod, privateKeyLocation, baseurl that should be saved in the config file

Initialize or change a config fileNone
createoauthNone

--consumerkey: The name of the OAuth public key as configured on the Jira Server. Specify to use a different one than the config file has.

--consumersecret: The OAuth secret as configured on the Jira Server. Specify to use a different one than the config file has.

None

--pkeyloc: Path to the private to be used for the creation of this token.

Create an OAuth token.

Important:

OAuth Consumer must have been configured server-side by an Administrator. 
A Tutorial on how to configure that can be found on the official Atlassian Jira Documentation:
https://developer.atlassian.com/server/jira/platform/oauth/
(Only Step 1 is relevant, Step 2 and 3 are handled by JiraClient)

Consumer secret and key already configured on Jira.

Private Key used must correspond to configured public key.


Example Command Usage

listissues

...

Code Block
collapsetrue
jira-client listissues --project EXAMPLEPROJECTNAME

Example Output:

...

Code Block
jira-client createissue --project EXAMPLEPROJECTNAME --summary "This is the headline" --desc "This is a multi-lined\ndescription" --issuetype Bug --priority 4

No output when successful.

...

Code Block
> jira-client createoauth
Request token recieved, please authorize me in the Browser via the following URL:
https://jira.mydomain.com/plugins/servlet/oauth/authorize?oauth_token=60uUqPdN237z3qjOCafLeNWHJHO2g6zw

Have you authorized me? (Y/n) 

--(Manual authentication in browser)--

> Y

{'oauth_token': 'yPpXwNyWeLpc923qIpKvMLCabVqztb28', 'oauth_token_secret': 'uDtPg6ePeKWG9JsNZZblubAWfnwbCoNl', 'oauth_expires_in': '157680000', 'oauth_session_handle': 'bmF8KVnnF2AMwUX6AAZ8P5Oc3WtS0b5A', 'oauth_authorization_expires_in': '160272000'}
Save OAuth Token to user or global config, or none (u/g/n)? 
Alternatively, enter a custom absolute file path(starting with /):

> u


Installation & configuration tips

Apt sources

http://deb.clazzes.org/any/sources.list.d/any/any-xpkg-1.list

http://deb.clazzes.org/any/sources.list.d/any/any-pytools-1.list

OAuth token creation

See https://developer.atlassian.com/server/jira/platform/oauth/

But not all fields in step 3 of "Create an application link" are irrelevant ;-)

Sample cnf

Code Block
titlejira-client.cnf example
collapsetrue
[CLI]
username = jdoe
#password = myPass
baseurl = https://jira.company.test/

privatekeylocation=/etc/jira-client/jira_privatekey.pem
consumerkey=OauthKey
consumersecret=secret

oauthtoken=Q.....a
auth=OAUTH
oauthsecrettoken=4....Y