Ability to use Personal Access Tokens to authorize with JIRA

[sconzey]

Rather than putting my username in an environment variable, JIRA 8.14 supports automatically-expiring Personal Access Tokens.

It looks like you use HTTP bearer auth rather than basic auth.

If you reuse the JIRA_API_TOKEN env variable for this you need some mechanism to indicate in the config which auth style to use.

[ankitpokhrel]

@sconzey The tool uses basic auth and if your installation supports access tokens, you should already be able to login with the token. Did you try by setting JIRA_API_TOKEN env and using your email/username to login?

jira-cli/pkg/jira/client.go

Line 225 in 27b6122

req.SetBasicAuth(c.login, c.token)

[PaideiaDilemma]

Contrary to API tokens for Jira-Cloud, it seems like PATs can not be used for basic auth.
At least, that's what I have come to belief, since i have tried it in my own scripts before and it did not work.
I did not find any documentation to back that up though.
PATs definitely work with bearer auth, as mentioned here.

[ankitpokhrel]

This feature is being discussed in this PR #269

[ankitpokhrel]

This change is available in the new release v1.0.0-beta