HELP . Java REST client suddenly stopped working at 9.30 this morning

[Robot User]

The most basic function getIssue suddenly started failing with the error message 

RestClientException{statusCode=Optional.absent(), errorCollections=[]}

at around 9.30 this morning. I can curl the REST API directly no problem. I am using the basic auth with email and token as recommended, this has been working for ages.

Has something changed ? Anyone else experiencing this ? 

It's a Jira cloud instance

[Alexander_Piorecki]

I had the same problem - since the PR is still waiting to be merged (and we can't wait for that to happen) - I did:

- cloned the repo: 'git clone https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/jira-rest-java-client.git'

- had to clean some pom dependencies which were not available for some reason - and only kept api and core modules

- changed the file JsonParseUtil, line 192 to: 

final String username = json.optString("name");

- build the jars (core and api)

- copied them to our project into src/main/resources (I had to reuse the .pom file from release 5.1.6 as they were not generated by maven for 5.1.7 for some reason)

- then followed: https://www.baeldung.com/install-local-jar-with-maven/

- finally built our project

Above at least worked for me ;o) But would be nice to get the official library release...

[Alexander_Piorecki]

note - it's the core package which contains the breaking code - so might be sufficient to update the maven dependency for that package (after applying above file change)

[mmendoza]

How did you know which dependencies to delete?

[Alexander_Piorecki]

Essentially the ones giving problems ;o)

1) I removed all the reporting plugins from all pom's

2) Then added:

<properties>
    <java.version>1.8</java.version>
</properties>

to child pom's of api and core (we are on Java 8).

3) Finally added to the main pom: 

<maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
<maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>

Note:

api/src/main/java/com/atlassian/jira/rest/client/api/domain/EntityHelper.java

gave me some compilation problems - I did however just let Intellij resolve it - it was some unimplemented predicate methods.

Above might not be the right of doing it - but got me past the issues ;o)

[Robot User]

I got it working , this thread was useful. 

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Jira-REST-Java-Client-Exception-since-Mid-February-2020/qaq-p/1303165

Specifically changing JsonParseUtil.java

thanks