List non-empty fields of Jira ticket

Let's assume you have saved payload received using Jira REST API to file jiraTask.json.

$ jiraGet issue/BOOM-666 > jiraIssue.json 

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andriy melnyk ╔╬╚╗╠ ╠╣╔╦╣╚╗╔╬╗ ・ Aug 2 '19 ・ 2 min read

#jira #bash #zsh

Then you can list non-empty fields of the ticket using the folowing command (make sure you have installed jq before):

$ jq --raw-output ' .fields | . as $f | keys[] | select($f[.] != null) ' jiraIssue.json ...<87 fields listed>... 

In my example, the command above lists 87 non-empty fields of Jira ticket. Compare it with total number of fields in the ticket which is 983 😱

Or, if you want to see fields with their values, use the following:

$ jq --raw-output ' .fields | . as $f | [ keys[] | select($f[.] != null) | { (.): $f[.] } ] | add ' jiraIssue.json