Add option to add custom headers to Jira Client (or enable token Bearer auth at least)

[skaiaa]

I have to login to Jira using a Token with header like this "authetication":"Bearer <TOKEN>". There is no option to add headers manually and token auth is not one of the provided ways to authenticate. This blocks me from using a client at all, because I cannot authenticate properly.
Please, consider adding an option for custom headers. Is there a workaround which would make token bearer authentication work?

[skaiaa]

I've forked the repo and added token auth option: https://github.com/skaiaa/jira/blob/master/jira/client.py

[danielflira]

Apparently on JIRA constructor it makes a copy of JIRA.DEFAULT_OPTIONS dictionary then it uses options parameter to update internal options, try something like:

headers = JIRA.DEFAULT_OPTIONS["headers"].copy()
headers["my-header"] = "my value"
jira = JIRA(options={"headers": headers})

[skaiaa]

Thanks! It worked for me :) I've created PR with token auth added, so maybe it'll be useful and more clean fix for the future. #991

[oaustegard]

To be entirely clear to anyone looking to use a Personal Access token - @danielflira's excellent workaround would look like this:

host = "YOUR_JIRA_URL"
pat = "YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN"

headers = JIRA.DEFAULT_OPTIONS["headers"].copy()
headers["Authorization"] = f"Bearer {pat}"
jira=JIRA(server=host, options={"headers": headers})

[prigio]

A nice solution, but does not allow to use client-side TLS certificates.

This is the (terrible) hack which did it for me

class JIRA_With_Token_Auth(jira.JIRA):
    """This is a HORRIBLE HACK to cope with the lack of real support for Personal Access Token authentication
    """
    def _create_http_basic_session(self, username, password, timeout=None):
        verify = self._options['verify']
        self._session = jira.client.ResilientSession(timeout=timeout)
        self._session.verify = verify
        # if they are empty, leave _session.auth=None
        if username and password:
            self._session.auth = (username, password)
        self._session.cert = self._options['client_cert']


j = JIRA_With_Token_Auth(server, basic_auth=(None,None), options=dict(client_cert=cert))