extracting fields from a Jira “issue” (like a very nice and useful description)? how to get the markup source of the issue description?

No, Jira does not let you read (“per se“) the markup source of an “issue” – that’s why I went this way in the first place  🙄

• http://Jochen.Hayek.name/wp/blog-en/2015/12/02/jira-rest-api/ – using Jira’s REST API: a “…/rest/api/2/issue/…” URL
• http://Jochen.Hayek.name/wp/blog-en/2015/12/22/jq-json-processor/ – how to use jq for json-tidying

jq . X.json > X.pretty.json

• http://Jochen.Hayek.name/wp/blog-en/2018/01/17/json-extract-structure/ – extract the structure tree of your JSON data using jq and a nice command line

jq -c 'path(..)|[.[]|tostring]|join("/")|"."+.' X.pretty.json

• the field we are interested in is fields/description

jq ".fields.description" X.json > X.description.txt

• save the value of that field to a separate file!
• remove the leading and trailing double-quotes!
• replace all \" with ordinary double-quotes!
• remove \r!
• replace \n with ordinary new-lines!

jq ".fields.description" X.json | 
perl -pe 's/^"(.*)"$/$1/; s/\\"/"/g; s/\\r//g; s/\\n/\n/g' > X.description.txt

• …
• looks good, doesn’t it?