Operations with Specific IssueLink

This resource lets you read links of the issue.

Resource	/api/issues/{issueID}/links/{linkID}
Returned entity	IssueLink. For the description of the entity attributes, see Supported Fields section.
Supported methods	`GET`: Read a Specific IssueLink.

IssueLink attributes

Represents issue links of a particular link type (for example, 'relates to').

This table describes attributes of the IssueLink entity.

To receive an attribute in the response from server, specify it explicitly in the request parameter fields.
To update an attribute, provide it in the body of a POST request.

Field	Type	Description
direction	Enumeration	Link direction. Supported values are OUTWARD, INWARD, and BOTH. `Read-only`.
linkType	IssueLinkType	Link type. `Read-only`. `Can be null`.
issues	Array of Issues	List of issues that are linked with this type.
trimmedIssues	Array of Issues	The trimmed list of issues. This property can be used to avoid performance problems for issues that have many links. Use $topLinks and $skipLinks parameters to request a particular part of the whole list. `Read-only`.

Read a Specific IssueLink

Get the data for specific link of the issue.

Request syntax

GET /api/issues/{issueID}/links/{linkID}?{fields}

{linkID}

The database ID of the issue link.

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
fields	String	A list of IssueLink attributes that should be returned in the response. If no field is specified,only the `entityID` is returned

Sample

Sample request URI

https://example.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/api/issues/2-33/links/80-2s?fields=id,direction,linkType(name,localizedName,sourceToTarget,targetToSource,directed,aggregation),issues(id,idReadable,summary)
            

Sample response body

{
  "direction": "OUTWARD",
  "linkType": {
    "sourceToTarget": "is duplicated by",
    "directed": true,
    "aggregation": true,
    "targetToSource": "duplicates",
    "localizedName": null,
    "name": "Duplicate",
    "$type": "IssueLinkType"
  },
  "issues": [
    {
      "summary": "Issue from REST #1",
      "idReadable": "SP-42",
      "id": "2-47",
      "$type": "Issue"
    },
    {
      "summary": "Sample for api/admin/projects/:id/issues endpoint",
      "idReadable": "RP-4",
      "id": "2-72",
      "$type": "Issue"
    }
  ],
  "id": "80-2s",
  "$type": "IssueLink"
}
            

Last modified: 1 July 2020