For developping and testing, the JIRA REST Browser is a great help. Unfortunately, this product has an annoying bug that prevents it from working correctly with non-JIRA add-ons.
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JIRA REST Browser
You can find this free add-on here: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.labs.rest-api-browser.
The JIRA REST Browser provides a GUI that shows the parameters and allows to run and test REST services:
Some more information can be found here: https://developer.atlassian.com/docs/atlassian-platform-common-components/rest-api-development/developing-a-rest-service-plugin
Patch the JIRA REST Browser
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Atlassian has added hard-coded information on the REST services that can be displayed via the JIRA REST Browser, so that, contary to the documentation, services of other add-ons are not displayed. |
You can work around this bug with the following patch:
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# download plugin (https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.labs.rest-api-browser):
# extract files (js)
unzip rest-api-browser-3.0.x.jar assets/rab/rest-api-browser.min.js assets/rab/services/rest_resources_service.js
# add icbiz in: assets/rab/rest-api-browser.min.js
var JIRA_PUBLIC_APIS=["^json-rpc/","^api/2","^auth/","^activities/","^icbiz/"]
# add icbiz in: assets/rab/services/rest_resources_service.js
var JIRA_PUBLIC_APIS = [
'^json-rpc/',
'^api/2',
'^auth/',
'^activities/',
'^icbiz'
];
# update Jar-file
jar -uf rest-api-browser-3.0.x.jar assets/rab/rest-api-browser.min.js assets/rab/services/rest_resources_service.js |
(replace 3.0.x by the version you are using)