Get current authenticated user from JIRA REST api

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The documentation and examples on the JIRA REST api that I've seen so far don't cover the case where you want to identify the currently logged in user on a particular host (having no prior information about them).

I want to do this so I can just say 'get all issues assigned to me', rather than 'get all issues assigned to Bob' (as I would have to know the username 'Bob' for this).

Is this possible?

Many thanks

Vijay Sirigiri · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-21 10:41:01Z

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If you want to know the details of the current session (which also gives the user name) then the REST API URI path is /rest/auth/latest/session

Below is the JSON returned by the API

{

    "self": "<JIRA host>/rest/api/latest/user?username=bob",
    "name": "Bob",
    "loginInfo": {
        "failedLoginCount": 1,
        "loginCount": 2,
        "lastFailedLoginTime": "2011-11-17T19:27:50.097-0800",
        "previousLoginTime": "2011-11-20T19:06:58.412-0800"
    }

}

answered Nov 21, 2013 at 10:41

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ggonmar Over a year ago

This is working for me on Postman, but not when I implement the query on a script sending it via ajax, getting ERR_CONNECTION_RESET. Any idea why?

Dmitry Polomoshnov · Accepted Answer · 2023-11-27 11:32:07Z

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GET {jira_url}/rest/api/latest/myself

This will return the logged in user details, the same response as from

GET {jira_url}/rest/api/latest/user?username=<username>

but without specifying the username.

answered Nov 27, 2023 at 11:32

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