General information

Available since v. 1.31.*

Available ONLY for Jira Administrators

Get all user directories

Method type - GET

URL: {JIRA_URL}/rest/extender/1.0/userDirectories/all

Response format - JSON

Example response

{
    "userDirectories": [
        {
            "lastSyncStartDate": 1560411989302,
            "lastSyncStatusKey": "directory.caching.sync.completed.FULL",
            "lastSyncDuration": 40026,
            "name": "LDAP Accounts",
            "description": null,
            "active": true,
            "id": 10100,
			"position": 1
        },
        {
            "name": "JIRA Internal Directory",
            "description": "JIRA Internal Directory",
            "active": true,
            "id": 1,
			"position": 2
        },
        {
            "lastSyncStartDate": 1552660659493,
            "lastSyncStatusKey": null,
            "lastSyncDuration": 37692,
            "name": "Other LDAP Accounts",
            "description": null,
            "active": false,
            "id": 10200,
			"position": 3
        }
    ],
    "results": "3"
}

Synchronize user directories

Method type - POST

URL: {JIRA_URL}/rest/extender/1.0/userDirectories/{DIRECTORY_ID}/synchronize

where {DIRECTORY_ID} is a directory id, like 10100

Example URL:

{JIRA_URL}/rest/extender/1.0/userDirectories/10100/synchronize
{JIRA_URL}/rest/extender/1.0/userDirectories/10100/synchronize?fullSynchronisation=true&runInBackground=true

Response format - JSON

Example response

{
    "message": "synchronization request for directory '1' has been sent"
}

{
    "message": "directory '10100' is now synchronising"
}

Parameters:

fullSynchronisation - optional - (true or empty) - if you need run full synchronization set to true, otherwise synchronization is incremental

FULL - Synchronise with the entire user base from remote directory
INCREMENTAL - Synchronise the changes since the last synchronization

You can check the configuration of your user directory in the settings, go to User Directories -> Edit -> Advanced Settings -> Enable Incremental Synchronization

runInBackground - optional - (true or empty) - if set to true, synchronization run in background mode, otherwise the request will wait at the end of synchronization