Can't retrieve the whole comment for a JIRA issue using Python API

[Herbert Schmidmeier]

I'm trying to retrieve a particular comment using its "comment id" but it returns only the comment id. 

I can obtain the comment IDs as per the output below.

print('Comments:          ', issues.fields.comment.comments)

Comments:           [<JIRA Comment: id='475946'>, <JIRA Comment: id='475947'>, <JIRA Comment: id='475948'>, <JIRA Comment: id='475949'>, <JIRA Comment: id='475950'>, <JIRA Comment: id='475951'>, <JIRA Comment: id='475952'>, <JIRA Comment: id='475953'>, <JIRA Comment: id='475954'>, <JIRA Comment: id='475955'>, <JIRA Comment: id='475956'>, <JIRA Comment: id='475957'>, <JIRA Comment: id='475958'>]

comment = jc.comment(bug, issues.fields.comment.comments[12])
print(comment)

Comment: 475958

How do I retrieve the whole comment ? There are multiple fields in a comment like Author, date, branch, etc.

Thanks !!

[Stephen Sifers]

Hello Herbert and welcome to the Community!

The API endpoint you’re using will respond with the values of the entire issue. When you make a call, as per your example, it will only return the value of the comment ID as requested.

You’re going to want to use the endpoint to GET Comment and from there return the values of the comment. “GET /rest/api/3/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/comment/{id}”

The example python for this request would look similar to:

# This code sample uses the 'requests' library:
# http://docs.python-requests.org
import requests
import json

url = "https://your-domain.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/comment/{id}"

headers = {
   "Accept": "application/json",
   "Bearer": ""
}

response = requests.request(
   "GET",
   url,
   headers=headers
)

print(json.dumps(json.loads(response.text), sort_keys=True, indent=4, separators=(",", ": ")))

From this, when you get your response, you should be able to view the contents of the comment you requested by ID.

Please let us know if this helped with getting a response of the comment.

Regards,
Stephen Sifers

[Herbert Schmidmeier]

Hi Stephen,

Thanks a lot for your reply !! 

Is there a way to retrieve the same information using the Python APIs ?

Regards,

Herbert

[Herbert Schmidmeier]

Stephen,

It worked. Thanks for your help.

Regards

Herbert