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Alina12
Helper I
2 years ago
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How to connect Jira REST API as data source? Power BI Service friendly and with pagination??

Hi to all I've spent hours and hours trying to load the Jira data into Power BI via its REST API. I have now managed to do it, but with the well-known problem of the error message of a dynamic data ...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Hi Alina12 ,

     

    Hope all is going well.

     

    Please follow these steps:

     

    1. The error you are encountering in the function is due to attempting to concatenate a binary () with a string. Since is used with , it is treated as a binary.

     

    You should modify your approach to use and options within for pagination as well.GetJiraIDCountBaseUrlBaseUrlWeb.ContentsRelativePathQueryWeb.Contents

     

    2. Modify the GetPage function:

    GetPage = (Index) =>
    let
        Skip = Text.From(Index * JiraIDPerPage),
        Top = Text.From(JiraIDPerPage),
        PageData = Web.Contents(
            https://XXX.XXX.net/jira/rest/api,
            [
                RelativePath="2/search",
                Query=
                [
                    jql="filter=525545",
                    startAt=Skip,
                    maxResults=Top,
                    fields="issuetype,key,summary,customfield_10401,labels,customfield_10000,status,resolution,customfield_11200"
                ],
                Headers=[Authorization="Bearer XXX"]
            ]
        ),
        Json = Json.Document(PageData),
        Value = Json[#"issues"]
    in Value,

     

    If you have other questions, please contact me at any time.

     

    Best Regards,
    Yang
    Community Support Team

     

    If there is any post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution  to help the other members find it more quickly.
    If I misunderstand your needs or you still have problems on it, please feel free to let us know. Thanks a lot!

Alina12's avatar
Alina12
Helper I
2 years ago

hi Anonymous ,

 

thanks a lot for your reply! 

I tried your recommendation and fortunately it works fine now in power bi desktop and I get all hits, but unfortunately I still get the error message with the dynamic data sources in Power BI Services. Do I have to use Web.Contents, Relative Path and Query everywhere instead of BaseUrl and not only in the PageData? Can the problem also be caused by the pagination?

My code so far:

 

let 
    BaseUrl = 
    Web.Contents(
        "https://XXX.XXX.net/jira/rest/api",
        [
            RelativePath="2/search",
            Query=
            [
                jql="filter=525545",
                maxResults="1000",
                fields="issuetype,key,summary,customfield_10401,labels,customfield_10000,status,resolution,customfield_11200"
            ],
            Headers=
            [
                Authorization="Bearer XXX"
            ]
        ]
        
    )  ,
 
    JiraIDPerPage = 1000,

    GetJson = (Url) =>
        let 
            RawData = BaseUrl,
            Json    = Json.Document(RawData)
        in  Json,

    GetJiraIDCount = () =>
        let Url   = BaseUrl,
            Json  = GetJson(Url),
            Count = Json[#"total"]
        in  Count,

    GetPage = (Index) =>
    let
        Skip = Text.From(Index * JiraIDPerPage),
        Top = Text.From(JiraIDPerPage),
        PageData = Web.Contents(
            "https://XXX.XXX.net/jira/rest/api",
            [
                RelativePath="2/search",
                Query=
                [
                    jql="filter=525545",
                    startAt=Skip,
                    maxResults=Top,
                    fields="issuetype,key,summary,customfield_10401,labels,customfield_10000,status,resolution,customfield_11200"
                ],
                Headers=[Authorization="Bearer XXX"]
            ]
        ),
        Json = Json.Document(PageData),
        Value = Json[#"issues"]
    in Value,

    JiraIDCount = List.Max({ JiraIDPerPage, GetJiraIDCount() }),

    PageCount   = Number.RoundUp(JiraIDCount / JiraIDPerPage),

    PageIndices = { 0 .. PageCount - 1 },

    Pages       = List.Transform(PageIndices, each GetPage(_)),

    JiraID    = List.Union(Pages),

    Table       = Table.FromList(JiraID, Splitter.SplitByNothing(), null, null, ExtraValues.Error),

    ....

 

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
Not applicable
2 years ago

Hi Alina12 ,

 

You mentioned that it works fine in Power BI Desktop, but there is a problem in Service. One possible influencing factor is:

 

Please check that the authentication token is still valid and is passed correctly with every request. Token expiration or authentication issues can sometimes manifest as errors with dynamic data sources.

 

Here is a revised approach for the pagination part:

GetJiraIDCount = () =>
    let
        Json = Web.Contents(
            https://XXX.XXX.net/jira/rest/api,
            [
                RelativePath="2/search",
                Query=[jql="filter=525545", maxResults="0", fields=""],
                Headers=[Authorization="Bearer XXX"]
            ]
        ),
        Data = Json.Document(Json),
        Count = Data[total]
    in
        Count,

GetPage = (Index) =>
    let
        Skip = Text.From(Index * JiraIDPerPage),
        PageData = Web.Contents(
            https://XXX.XXX.net/jira/rest/api,
            [
                RelativePath="2/search",
                Query=[
                    jql="filter=525545",
                    startAt=Skip,
                    maxResults="1000",
                    fields="issuetype,key,summary,customfield_10401,labels,customfield_10000,status,resolution,customfield_11200"
                ],
                Headers=[Authorization="Bearer XXX"]
            ]
        ),
        Json = Json.Document(PageData),
        Value = Json[issues]
    in
        Value,

 

For more information on using in Power BI, I recommend reviewing the following documentation:

Web.Contents - PowerQuery M | Microsoft Learn

 

If you have any further questions please feel free to contact me.

 

Best Regards,
Yang
Community Support Team

 

If there is any post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution  to help the other members find it more quickly.
If I misunderstand your needs or you still have problems on it, please feel free to let us know. Thanks a lot!