How to get all worklogs and comments for issues in a sprint using Jira Search API?

[Abhishek Gupta]

Hi community,
I'm currently working with the Jira REST API and I'm using the Search API with a JQL query to fetch all issues for a particular sprint.
My goal is:

• To retrieve all worklogs and comments for each issue in that sprint,
• And if possible, sort worklogs and comments by newest first.

My current query looks like this:

GET /rest/api/2/search?jql=sprint = "MOBL-01APRIL"&fields=summary,worklog,comment&expand=worklog,renderedFields

Questions:

1. Is it possible to retrieve all worklogs and comments for each issue directly using the Search API?
   • If not, is there an efficient way to get the complete data (maybe via a secondary request per issue)?
2. What is the default limit for worklogs and comments returned per issue via the Search API?
3. Is there a way to sort the worklogs and comments by newest first within the API response?

Any guidance, workarounds, or best practices would be appreciated!
Thanks in advance!

[Abdallah Khaled]

Hi @Abhishek Gupta 

• Each API endpoint may have a different limit for the number of items returned. As a consequence, the maxResults in the request is overridden if it is above the limit defined for a given REST API endpoint for example for "Issue comments" the max is 100 entries you can see each API endpoint default max results parameter from our official API guide here . You can use pagination to retrieve more entries by specifying the startAt and maxResults parameters in your subsequent requests and append them altogether, you can see more details here,
• Within the API issue search results, worklogs and comments are not sorted by default. To sort them by newest first, you need to handle this client-side after fetching the complete data. unfortunately, the cloud rest api has no sort endpoint, I can see a similar feature request raised to address this: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-91954