API Authentication for Windows Application

[Victor G]

Hi,

I need to use the Jira API from a WPF Application. In order to do this I need to authenticate the request. What is the best method to do something like this for both the Cloud and the Server version? This should also work for Jira installations which support SS0 (so basically no username and password is available).

Thanks.

Best,

Victor

[Stephen Sifers]

Hello Victor and welcome to the Community!

If you’re wanting to create an application to integrate with Jira then you’re going to want to use OAuth for authentication. We would suggest reviewing the OAuth documentation for more information on how to use and integrate this within your applications. This information may be found at the following:

• Jira OAuth for Cloud
• Jira OAuth for Server

I hope this information proves helpful and you’re able to integrate your applications.

Regards,
Stephen SIfers

[Victor G]

Hi Stephen,

Thank you for your answer. Unfortunately this doesn't really work for my scenario. Let me try to explain it a little bit more in depth:

I am developing a WPF Application which will be eventually deployed on a lots of physical machines. Basically I want to be able to connect to Jira from this application. If I would use OAuth then I would need to generate a public/private key from my WPF application and "ask" the user to add the public key to his Jira account. This would mean some manual work from the users which I would like to avoid. Is there maybe some other way I didn't think of? 

Thanks.

Best,

Victor

[Stephen Sifers]

Hello Victor,

Thanks for the clarification on what you’re wanting to accomplish. At this point I would suggest reviewing the security documentation for the Jira Server developer guides to find the best solution that will meet your integration needs. The documentation will review different authentication types of integrating with Jira. You may find this documentation at Jira Server Developer | Security overview and Jira Cloud platform Developer | Security overview.

Regards,
Stephen Sifers

[Victor G]

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for pointing me the second time to the documentation. Obviously I already read it... I was asking a specific question here and not in general...