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Stefan2902
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M Query RESTful webservice as data source

Hi,

 

I am rather new to PBI but hope I can express my problem in a meaningful manner. I want to pull data which comes from a RESTful webservice. Subsequent you can find the details I am using in a RESTful client which returns a proper JSON:

 

GET / https://myjira.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/search?jql=project="XXX"
Header / Authorization:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

 


Now I have tried to implement this in PBI query as follows:

 

let
address = "https://myjira.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/search",
header = [ #"Authorization" = "xxxxxxxxxxx"],
queryOptions = [#"?jql" = "project=XXX"],
Source = Json.Document(Web.Contents(address , [Headers = header, Query = queryOptions])),
issues = Source[issues]
in
issues

 

 

This returns a table but the "issues" are empty?! I do not get the 23 expected issues within the JIRA project.

 

Im assumption is that it has something to do with the "jqp" part and the multiple "=" symbols

 

Eventually the address need to be:

 

https://myjira.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/search?jql=project="XXX"

 

 

 

Do you have any idea how to fix or better troubleshoot?

 

BR,

Stefan

 

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Stefan2902
Regular Visitor

I now made some progress. I have compared the Header from the REST client to the Header in PowerBI and added the Cookie Header. Afterwards it worked fine:

 

let
Source = Json.Document(Web.Contents("https://myjira.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/search?jql=project='BESAD'", [Headers=[Authorization="xxx",Cookie="somecookiestring"]])),
issues = Source[issues],
issues1 = issues{0},
fields = issues1[fields]
in
fields


I have just copied the cookie information from the REST client; but what do I need to use in PowerBI as Cookie information?

 

BR,

Stefan

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