Mock Jira API Calls

[Tim Ellis]

I have a service I wrote that depends on creating tickets in Jira.

Sometimes if someone changes the Jira project (or maybe Jira is down, or a million other possible problems), my service can no longer create Jiras or work with them. When that happens, my service is down.

I want to write monitoring that tests my service. Say it checks every 5 seconds if my service is working.

This means my service needs to create a new Jira ticket (and delete it so it doesn't pollute the Jira project) every 5 seconds. That's thousands of Jira tickets a day.

Question 1: can Jira do this just fine? If I create a new Jira and delete it every 5 seconds for years?

Question 2: assuming "no" (everyone here thinks it's "no"), how can I achieve this? Is there a Jira API call to do everything about creating a Jira in a project except the actual bit of creating the Jira? Like, test permissions, required custom fields are all filled in, etc?

Question 3: Can I setup a "dev" Jira project that my service could connect to, so it can pollute the project with all these test Jiras every 5 seconds?

Question 4: am I doing it wrong? Is there a better way to do this?

[sukkeong]

1. Ping if the server is alive and the service is up and running
2. Call the REST API for the target project
   

   curl <options> <jira-url>:<port>/rest/api/2/project/{projectIdOrKey}

   
   

   • If the above returns a valid json file - OK

   • If the above returns a json with error message - project is not found

   • If an http error is returned - server is down