How to exclude multiple status values when listing issues?

[anatoly-scherbakov]

Context

All of the following applies to:

(Version="0.0.0", GitCommit="6c1e78e4a3b57f50ffb3e2ab3c79faaf2117b9db", GoVersion="go1.17", BuildDate="2021-09-05"", Compiler="gc", Platform="linux/amd64")

jira issue list --status ~Done

will show issues that are in any other status than Done. What if we want to exclude more than one status?

Comma separation

jira issue list --status ~Done,Closed

will return an error:

⠧ Fetching issues... 
Error:
  - The value 'Done,Closed' does not exist for the field 'status'.

jira: Received unexpected response '400 Bad Request'.
Please check the parameters you supplied and try again.

(also, it will apparently change terminal settings: the blinking cursor is no longer seen in the GNOME terminal emulator unless you execute tput reset).

Multiple values

jira issue list --status ~Done --status ~Closed

will not return an error but many (or all?) of the issues listed will have status Done — which seemingly means that the latter incarnation of --status option overrides the previous one. Probably there should be an error if this behavior is not supported and there should be only one copy of an option.

Summary

Is there a way to exclude multiple status values when filtering?

[ankitpokhrel]

The status option only accepts a single value at the moment. However, you can use a raw query to achieve what you want.

// All issues except the one in `Done` and  `Open`
$ jira issue list -q "status not in (Done, Open)"

TBH, I think it would be nice if status would accept multiple status. I am open for discussion (and a PR :) ) on that part.

[ankitpokhrel]

(also, it will apparently change terminal settings: the blinking cursor is no longer seen in the GNOME terminal emulator unless you execute tput reset).

Regarding this, could you please open a new discussion/issue with more details.

[anatoly-scherbakov]

Done! #162