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Is There a Simple Work Item Query Via REST API?

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Allen Boone (3●1●2) | asked Sep 01 '15, 3:39 p.m.
I've been looking through the docs and Googling around the web for information on a REST API for querying work items. I've found some old, seemingly outdated information, and I saw a rather complicated API with OLSC that requires multiple calls to just get to the service I need. What I'm looking for is a simple way to query work items in a Node.js app. Something like,  
GET https://<rtc_host>:<port>/services/workitems?owner=bob&open=true?foundIn=iteration3
that returns some nice JSON (though I'd settle for nasty XML) with a list of work items that meet the search criteria.

Does something like this exist? If not, can you point me toward a tutorial or some documentation for how to use the existing APIs for querying work items? 

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Donald Nong (14.5k●4●14) | answered Sep 01 '15, 9:02 p.m.
Yes it can be easily done with RTC OSLC API. The query would look like this

To get the response in JSON format, simply add the HTTP Request Header "Accept: application/json".

For more details about using the OSLC API, see below articles.
https://jazz.net/library/article/1001
https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/WorkItemAPIsForOSLCCM20#Examples
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Allen Boone commented Sep 03 '15, 11:00 a.m.

Thanks for the help. The approach in the first article worked, but it says that the only URI I should keep in the code is the rootservices path. Doing so requires a couple of extra REST calls that I'd like to avoid, however. Is it necessary to follow this procedure, or can I save the workitems service path? Is it likely to change? 

Allen Boone commented Sep 03 '15, 11:04 a.m.

 Thanks for the help. The approach in the first article worked, but it says that the only URI I should keep in the code is the rootservices path. Doing so requires a couple of extra REST calls that I'd like to avoid, however. Is it necessary to follow this procedure, or can I save the workitems service path? Is it likely to change? 

Donald Nong commented Sep 03 '15, 9:54 p.m.

If there is no configuration changes, such as server rename, version upgrade and etc, the path/URL stays the same.

Allen Boone commented Sep 15 '15, 1:37 p.m.

Is there a way to get a list of resources, such as the categories for filedAgainst? I haven't been able to figure out how to get the references that I need for my queries through the REST interface. 

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