Last updated Sep 17, 2025

Ending Connect support

You can no longer publish Connect apps on the Atlassian Marketplace. All new extensibility features will be delivered only on Forge.

Refer to this blog post for our timeline to end Connect support.

Have an existing Connect app? You can incrementally migrate it to Forge.

Context

A JavaScript module which provides functions for the current product context.

Methods

getToken (callback)

Retrieves the current user context as a JWT token containing details such as space key, issue id, etc. Throws an error if add-on does not support JWT authentication

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
callback	function	the callback that handles the response

Returns

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[ 'Promise' ].<string>

A promise that contains the token

Example

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AP.context.getToken(function(token){
  console.log("JWT token string", token);
});

getContext (callback)

Retrieves the current user context containing details such as space key, issue id, etc.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
callback	function	the callback that handles the response

Returns

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[ 'Promise' ].<Object>

A promise that contains the context

Example

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AP.context.getContext(function(response){
  console.log("Jira Issue Key", response.issue_key);
  console.log("Confluence page id", response.pageId);
  console.log("license status", response.license);
});