Support for API key authentication

[kahyoung-zz]

👋 This extension looks great but I can't use it at my workplace. We authenticate using Google OAuth, so we don't really have an email and password to attach.

Would love to be able to use API keys though.

I can have a look at this later on and see if I can make a PR.

[gioboa]

Hi, I will check if there is the possibility to login with Google 0Auth. For sure if you find something create a pull request. :wink:

[gioboa]

I created a new branch "jira-connector", it's for remove custom Jira calls and use "jira-connector" npm. With this package we have Base and OAuth Authentication. :+1:

[gioboa]

In this branch I replace custom API Calls with jira-connection. In this commit I add some code for OAuth code. @kahyoung I need your help to verify if like this can work. 👍

[kahyoung-zz]

@gioboa Sorry about the delay, will verify this later today 👍 thanks heaps for getting on this though!

[gioboa]

Now master branch use jira-connection lib. v. 0.7.0
@kahyoung Did you try with OAuth Authentication?

[blueo]

FWIW I just tried logging in with a google account - and no joy. It looks as though i'd need to add consumer keys etc?

[gioboa]

@blueo Yes, you understand the problem.
I don't have the possibility to try with OAuth Authentication. In src/http/api.ts there is the connection method.
Can you help me to implement OAuth Authentication connection?
You can follow CONTRIBUTING.md doc and create a PR. 👍
Let me know. Thanks. 😄

[NKjoep]

Hello,

I came here for the same reason, I'd like to connect to Jira with a user token.

Reading the jira-connect documentation, it looks like it's just not supported.

However, according on the Atlassian documentation, the user token can be used as a password for basic auth :)

And the example is pretty straighforward and works indeed:

curl -v https://company.atlassian.net --user your@email.com:token

Then I have question: why doesn't this work with jira-connect (and so with this beautiful vscode pluing)? What am I missing?

[gioboa]

Hi, so even if you put your email in user and the token inside the password the authentication went wrong?

[NKjoep]

~Yes, it went wrong and I get the long log in the vscode extentension output panel.~

edit: as I said earlier, my token is valid. I've tested it with curl and postman.

edit 2: I think I've found out why it wasn't working: I had multiple instanced of vscode and the settings weren't update accordingly. It Works!

[gioboa]

So if we insert in user the email and inside password the token, will it work correctly?

[NKjoep]

Correct!

It worked like this for me:

0. go to https://id.atlassian.com/manage/api-tokens and create a token
1. close all the vscode
2. open one vscode instance
3. setup the jira-plugin with: 3.a url: your base atlassian url (https please!) 3.b username: your full email 3.c passowrd: the token

[blueo]

so this worked for me too, thank you for the instructions!