add support for JIRA / Confluence Server Personal Access Tokens

[valentijnscholten]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
In JIRA Server 8.14 and Confluence Server 7.9 atlassian has (finally) added tokens as a way to authenticate to the REST API. Much better then people using their company wide ldap password for this (and storing it in places).

Describe the solution you'd like
I think we should support this new authentication method as JIRA Datacenter will also use it and stay beyond 2024. And basic authentication with passwords will be deprecated by atlassian.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Add support for https://confluence.atlassian.com/enterprise/using-personal-access-tokens-1026032365.html

Additional context
Please note these personal access tokens are slightly different from the JIRA Cloud api tokens (thank you atlassian).

Cloud: curl -H "Authorization: Basic <base64(<username>:<yourToken>>)" https://{jiraBaseUrl}/rest/api/

Server: curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <yourToken>" https://{jiraBaseUrl}/rest/api/

[oaustegard]

There's a PR for this here: #991 Worth a review by someone with write access?

[oaustegard]

There's a PR for this here: #991 Worth a review by someone with write access?

Yeah I see how this conflicts with #896 - until the build is fixed this won't be reviewed

Meanwhile a workaround for anyone looking to use Personal Access Tokens is here: #989 (comment)

[valentijnscholten]

There's a PR for this here: #991 Worth a review by someone with write access?

Thanks, didn't see that one.

[studioj]

@valentijnscholten we assume this is closed in below pre-release could you confirm?

https://github.com/pycontribs/jira/releases/tag/3.1.0rc1

[valentijnscholten]

yes (untested)

[adehad]

For completeness:

# Jira Cloud uses the 'Basic' Auth header
jira_cloud_token_auth = JIRA(basic_auth=('email', 'API token'))

# Jira Server/Data Center/Self Hosted uses the 'Bearer' Auth header
jira_server_token_auth = JIRA(token_auth='API token')