customFields API calls missing?

I’m just starting out with this library and trying to find the values for some custom fields (as I’m getting an error that I can’t create an issue unless I fill out some of these custom fields).

Looking at the docs there are API calls for custom fields, however I can’t find all of them in the library.

Am I looking in the wrong spot? I had a quick look through the code and found calls for /rest/api/2/customField/<id>/option but I can’t see those calls listed in the JIRA API docs (only /rest/api/2/customFieldOption) so I’m not sure whether the API has changed or if I’m just looking in the wrong place! I was wanting to make a GET to /rest/api/2/customFields but can’t find where that one is implemented.

Would you mind pointing me in the right direction for the custom field calls? Thanks!

[adam-nielsen]

Sorry I’m getting confused with all the similarly-named endpoints! I was originally wanting to call /rest/api/2/customFields which I think this library doesn’t implement, however I have since tried to call it manually and realised you need admin access so that endpoint won’t be of any use for me anyway.

Your example with issueCustomFieldOptions.getOptionsForField() calls a working endpoint, but unfortunately Jira returns a 404 error no matter what fieldId I pass through. However I have confirmed that this library is accessing the correct URL so the error is not a problem with this library.

I think I will have to go back to Jira support for this, as I cannot find any API endpoint that will tell me the available options I can assign to a custom select field!

Many thanks for your help with this, and sorry for all my confusion 😃

[adam-nielsen]

Just for the benefit of anyone else coming across this in future, I eventually found this knowledge base article from 2016 which acknowledges that there’s no API call to retrieve the list of possible values that can be assigned to a custom dropdown/select list.

The workaround suggested is to use what in this library is jiraClient.issues.getCreateIssueMetadata() which I got to work like this:

const values = await jiraClient.issues.getCreateIssueMetadata(
	{
		projectKeys: ['MyProject'],
		issuetypeNames: ['MyIssueType'],
		expand: 'projects.issuetypes.fields',
	}
);
const fields = values.projects[0].issuetypes[0].fields;
// Now use fields.customfield_1234.allowedValues