Using the /search API to match web UI search results

[Alex Crooks]

If I search for "ABC-1" in JIRA web UI it automatically determines that this is a key search and returns results. Or if I want to find the "development" task in project "ABC" I can search "development ABC-" and JIRA automatically creates the jql:

key in (ABC-1, ABC-2, ABC-3, ABC-4, ABC-5, ABC-6, ABC-7, ABC-8, ABC-9) AND (summary ~ "development*" OR description ~ "development*") ORDER BY key ASC

Is there a search end point where I send the same natural language search and JIRA work out what I'm after? 

It seems odd that I would have to re-create their complex automatic string to jql parser in my application. 

[Daniel Eads]

Hey Alex,

What you're looking at is referred to in our documentation as Smart querying. Unfortunately this feature isn't exposed via the API. There is an open feature request to add this to the API: JRACLOUD-43694.

I do want to manage your expectations that the feature request hasn't seen a lot of activity and might not be implemented anytime soon. For more information about how Atlassian prioritizes feature requests made on jira.atlassian.com, check out this Community post. It never hurts to vote on and watch the issue, as well as commenting with your use case or any extra info relevant to the feature.

Cheers,
Daniel