JQL Result API, How to get field options separately?

[Parvaneh Zand]

Hi everyone,

I'm using jira api to get jql search result.

List of fields are:

  "fields": [

    "summary",

    "customfield_14951"

  ]

and result for customfield_14951 which is "Select List (cascading)" is :

"customfield_14951": {

                    "self": "https://localhost/rest/api/2/customFieldOption/15529",

                    "value": "PARENT",

                    "id": "15529",

                    "child": {

                        "self": "https://localhost/rest/api/2/customFieldOption/16706",

                        "value": "CHILD",

                        "id": "16706"

                    }

                }

Question: How to get parent and child values separately? I tried

"customfield_14951[1]"

"customfield_14951.value"

to get 'PARENT' value.

and

"customfield_14951[3]['value']"

"customfield_14951.child.value"

to get 'CHILD' value.

none of them works:) Can anyone help me please?

[Radek Dostál · Accepted solution]

The short story is you can't.

The long story is the value is a map, so splitting it makes no sense and also there is no useful reason to even do it, if you need to handle the values separately, it likely shouldn't be a cascading list.

The longer story is whatever it is you're doing with json, there should be no problem to get the child value from the nested json in much the same way as you got the field from it in the first place.

[Parvaneh Zand]

Thank you @Radek Dostál