A simple approach to getting all of the data out of Atlassian Jira
One of my current projects is getting data out of Jira into a DataMart to allow fast (and easy) analysis. A library such as TechTalk.JiraRestClient provides a basic foundation but there is a nasty gotcha. Jira can be heavily customized, often with different projects having dozen of different and unique custom fields. So how can you do one size fits all? You could go down path of modifying the above code to enumerate all of the custom fields (and then have continuous work keeping them in sync) or try something like what I do below: exploiting that JSON and XML are interchangeable and XML in a SQL Server database can actually be real sweet to use. Modifying JiraRestClient The first step requires downloading the code from GitHub and modifying it. In JiraClient.cs method EnumerateIssuesByQueryInternal add the following code. var issues = data.issues ?? Enumerable .Empty< Issue >(); ...