test Jira API credentials

[David KLIMAS]

Hello community,

I am using Rest api to download the list of issues using this command

/rest/api/2/search?jql=ORDER%20BY%20Created&maxResults=50&startAt=0

 This works fine, however, when providing wrong credentials or Api token, JIRA returns the following :

"{""startAt"":0,""maxResults"":50,""total"":0,""issues"":[]}"

 It says that there are 0 issues, it does not give an error.

Is there another REST fonction which I can use to test my credentials and tell the user that the username or token is wrong ?

The above return is not reliable: does it return 0 issues because there are no issues or does it return 0 because the credentials are wrong ?

Thank you

[Kian Stack Mumo Systems · Accepted solution]

@David KLIMAS, 

Try this one - https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-issues/#api-rest-api-3-issue-issueidorkey-get. It should return a 401 is unauthorized.

Thanks,

Kian

[David KLIMAS]

Thanks Kian. I tried this one, which seems to work for me:

/rest/auth/1/session

 It returns the following if i introduce wrong credentials or an expired API token:

"{""errorMessages"":[""You are not authenticated. Authentication required to perform this operation.""],""errors"":{}}"