Deprecation notice - toString representation of sprints in Get issue response

From 1 September 2020, Jira REST API responses that include the Sprint custom field type will no longer return string representations of sprints in the body. This data will still be available in its proper JSON representation wherever a string was previously expected.

Why?

Our goal is to have JSON as the standard format for Jira REST API responses.

Replacement

After this date, you will only be able to get data for the Sprint custom field through its JSON representation.  This is available via the get issue method in the  Jira Platform REST API and the Jira Software REST API.

Feature Parity

Currently, the JSON representation of a sprint does not include all the data provided by the former string representation. We would like to provide feature parity on the data that our vendors need. This work is being tracked in the following ticket: ACJIRA-1082.

Please comment on this ticket if the JSON representation does not include the data necessary for your app to perform as intended.

Example

Soon to be deprecated:

Get Issue call:

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https://TESTINSTANCE.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/DEMO-1

GET Issue response:

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"customfield_11458": [
    "com.atlassian.greenhopper.service.sprint.Sprint@1bf75fd[id=1,rapidViewId=1,state=CLOSED,name=Sprint 1
,startDate=2016-06-06T21:30:53.537+10:00,endDate=2016-06-20T21:30:00.000+10:00,
completeDate=2016-06-06T21:30:57.523+10:00,sequence=1]",
    "com.atlassian.greenhopper.service.sprint.Sprint@1689feb[id=2,rapidViewId=1,state=FUTURE,name=Sprint 2
,startDate=<null>,endDate=<null>,completeDate=<null>,sequence=2]"
]

New:

Get Issue call:

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https://TESTINSTANCE.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/DEMO-1

GET Issue response:

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"customfield_10021": [
    {
        "id": 1,
        "name": "Sprint 1",
        "state": "closed",
        "boardId": 1,
        "goal": "Sprint Goal",
        "startDate": "2016-06-06T21:30:53.537+10:00",
        "endDate": "2016-06-20T21:30:00.000+10:00",
        "completeDate": "2016-06-06T21:30:57.523+10:00"
    },
    {
        "id": 2,
        "name": "Sprint 2",
        "state": "future",
        "boardId": 1
    }
]

You can learn more about interacting with the Sprint custom field via Jira's REST API in Jira Software's REST API Documentation.

You can report feature requests and bugs for Jira Cloud and our REST API in the ACJIRA project on ecosystem.atlassian.net.