Generating a Java REST Client for Confluence Cloud

Confluence’s REST API has many endpoints, with many combinations of parameters. Getting those data types and parameters correct for everything can be error prone if you were to write the client code manually. Is that a path parameter or a query parameter? Is that parameter optional or required? What data type does that return? If […]

Update to Jira Cloud’s Swagger/OpenAPI docs

In a previous Atlassian Community article, I talked about some things that might block you in generating client code automatically from our published spec, and then using that generated code to call Jira. Well, we removed those blockers! Also, we heard your feedback that you didn’t like the long and confusing method names. So here’s […]

What teaching kids to code taught me

“Good morning, Mr. Kelley!” Over the past year, I’ve enjoyed hearing this cheerful greeting from my students at the start of every class. No, I’m not a teacher; I’m a Senior Java Developer at Atlassian. But this year, I’ve been able to teach kids computer science education in a local Sydney school. Like many places, […]