Cannot assign myself to an issue

[dod38fr]

Hi

I'm trying to assign myself to an issue, but the list of assignable users does not include my name. I get a list of possible users all beginning with 'A'.

I use JIRA in a big company with thousands of users. I can only guess that the list of assignable users is retrieved from a paginated endpoint and only the first one is downloaded.

As a consequence, I cannot assign myself to an issue.

And updating an issue fails with this error:

"JIRA_ERROR RESPONSE: "

((errorMessages . []) (errors (assignee . "expected Object containing a 'name' property")))

Could you fix this problem ?

All the best

[ahungry]

If you add a PR, I will help review/merge it 😄

[dod38fr]

Well, I've looked into it and it's a bit more complicated. The call to get the list of user is done with /user/assignable/search:

      ('getUsers
       (jiralib--rest-call-it (format "/rest/api/2/user/assignable/search?project=%s&maxResults=10000" (first params))
                              :type "GET"))

First problem, JIRA's doc mentions that maxResults is limited to 1000, not 10 000.

In any case, this is way too much to use with a drop down menu (this is probably due to Helm).
The default is 50 entries with is more reasonable.

I think this endpoint is designed to work like the WEB interface in a iterative manner:

• first display the 50 first users in menu
• the user enters one or more characters to narrow the search (say 'Kev')
• the app calls again JIRA with /rest/api/2/user/assignable/search?project=%s&search=Kev
• Jira return a list of 50 users that include 'Kev'
• the menu is updated with this list
• user narrow the search again by entering 'in'
• the menu is update with all 'Kevin' of the company
• then user can select the right Kevin

I don't know if such a modification is easy to make to jira-org.

Thoughts ?

Hope this helps