Changelog

https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/summable-attribute-removal-from-assets-rest-apis/85117

At present an object type in Assets for Jira Service Management can have an unbounded number of unique constraints applied to its attributes. After 31st of October 2024 we will be introducing a new limit of 2 unique constraints per object type. This is part of our effort to offer a more scalable, performant and reliable experience as we make major enhancements to the underlying platform that powers Assets. We believe this new limit will be sufficient for the vast majority of use cases in which Assets is utilised.

For customers with any existing object types that already have more than 2 unique constraints, we are asking these customers to please reduce these down to 2 per object type before 31st of October 2024. Not doing this will mean:

• When we are ready to begin moving you to the new Assets platform, we will be unable to do so without first disabling your unique constraints on any object type with more than 2.

• You will be able to re-enable up to 2 per object type after this is completed.

More information on this process will be released in future.

Effected public Assets REST API endpoints are:

• POST /objecttypeattribute/{objectTypeId}

• PUT /objecttypeattribute/{objectTypeId}

Both of these endpoints will begin to return a HTTP status code of 400 if there is an attempt to add a unique attribute constraint (via the uniqueAttribute property) and the limit has been reached.

If you have more than 2 attributes on an object type that you need to ensure are unique, a potential workaround is creating an automation rule to check the number of objects that can contain a particular value after an object is updated. You could then raise a Jira issue to resolve the duplicate or notify the relevant schema administrator.

By making these changes we can ensure your site can begin to utilise our improved Assets platform when it is completed and reap the vastly improved the scalability, performance and reliability it will offer. We’ll be announcing more about this soon.

To prepare for this change, update your firewalls and other security measures to allow connections to the new IP ranges.

For more information, see IP addresses and domains for Atlassian Cloud products, which includes instructions on how to receive notifications of changes, as well as links to machine-readable lists of our IP ranges.

At present an object type in Assets for Jira Service Management can have an unbounded number of attributes. After 30th of September 2024 we will be introducing a new limit of 120 attributes per object type (which also includes any attributes inherited from a parent object). This is part of our effort to offer a more scalable, performant and reliable experience as we make major enhancements to the underlying platform that powers Assets. We believe this new limit will be sufficient for the vast majority of use cases in which Assets is utilised.

For the few customers with any existing object types that already have more attributes than this new limit, we are asking these customers to please reduce these numbers down to no greater than 150 per object type before 30th of September 2024. If you are one of these customers we’ll be reaching out to you to see if we can help in any way.

By making these changes we can ensure your site can begin to utilise our improved Assets platform when it is completed and reap the vastly improved the scalability, performance and reliability it will offer. We’ll be announcing more about this soon.

After 30th of September 2024 we will be introducing new limits regarding URL, Email and Select attributes. The limits are:

• A maximum cardinality of 50 for attributes with multiple values, OR

• A total of no more than 2700 characters for all values within an attribute (single or multiple values)

Whichever is reached first.

For Select attributes these limits apply to both attribute values and options.

For example this would mean that if a URL, Email or Select attribute had 50 values, then each value can on average contain 54 characters.

This is part of our effort to offer a more scalable, performant and reliable experience as we make major enhancements to the underlying platform that powers Assets. We believe these new limits will be sufficient for the vast majority of use cases in which Assets is utilised.

For the few customers with existing data that breaches this limit, we are asking these customers to please adjust their data to align with the limits by 30th of September 2024. If you are one of these customers we’ll be reaching out to you to see if we can help in any way.

By making these changes we can ensure your site can begin to utilise our improved Assets platform when it is completed and reap the vastly improved the scalability, performance and reliability it will offer. We’ll be announcing more about this soon.

If you have already treating these values as strings as per the API specification then you will not be effected by this change. If you have been assuming a numeric value within "id" fields, please make the appropriate adjustments to accomodate UUID’s before 30th of September 2024. Id’s on existing entities will continue to be queryable via their numeric id to maintain backwards compatibility.

If you are using Status ID’s in your AQL queries, please adjust these to use the Status Name instead before the 30th of September 2024.

The CIDR function allows filtering over IP ranges, for example
"IP Address" IN CIDR("192.0.0.0/8")
If this is a form of search you require, as an alternative we suggest trying LIKE to search for IP addresses in a particular range, e.g.
"IP Address" LIKE "192.0.0"
However, we do understand in many cases this will not be a suitable workaround.

Not to be confused with Text attributes which will continue to be searchable as they are today. If you have information contained with a TextArea attribute that you need to search on, we recommend moving it into one or more Text attributes.

Ordering via the Assets user experience or by using an AQL ORDER BY will no longer have the same behaviour for attributes of type User, Group, Project, Bitbucket repository and Opsgenie team. Ordering will be based on the underlying ID of the attribute value as opposed to the visible name. We understand this will likely not be the behaviour most of you expect in this situation. For most customers the new behaviour will appear as “grouping” as opposed to “ordering” as the underlying ID is not visible but values with the same ID will appear together after ordering. Ordering by all other attribute types will continue to work as they do today.

Ordering via the Assets user experience or by using an AQL ORDER BY will no longer be supported for attributes with a maximum cardinality configured as greater than 1. Currently very few customers use ordering on attributes of this kind and the behaviour often does not match what our customers expect. Ordering will continue to be supported on all attributes with a maximum cardinality of 1.

Today it is possible to use the >,>=,<,<= operators on attribute types where this is typically not required. Use of these operators will be limited to Integer, Float, Date and Date time where the use case and expected behaviour is clear.

The connectedTickets() function will not be usable when nested within the inboundReferences() or outboundReferences() functions. This means an AQL query such as
object HAVING connectedTickets(labels is empty)
(i.e. objects connected to issues where the label field is empty) will continue to behave as it does today. However,
object HAVING inboundReferences(object having connectedTickets(labels is empty))
(i.e. objects with an inbound reference from other objects which are connected to issues where the label field is empty) will not be valid AQL.

Use of the dot operator(.) will not be possible when using AQL as a part of mapping source data to an object in an import configuration. This restriction will apply only to the use of AQL in the import mapping section of the Assets import experience as well as the import endpoints in our public REST API. In all other locations the the dot operator(.) will continue to function as it always has.

See https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/changes-to-assets-object-aql-and-object-navlist-aql-endpoints/79919 for details.

See https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/object-attribute-value-id-will-be-removed-from-all-assets-rest-apis/79259 for details.

You should now use the endpoint POST /object/aql for all AQL queries to Assets in Jira Service Management.

Added extra fields to support:

1. uniqueness

2. cardinality

3. status

4. externalId

Added a new endpoint which retrieves the JSON provided in the mapping endpoint:

1. Get /schemaAndMapping