Poor performance of New-JiraIssue/Set-JiraIssue when Jira instance has lots of custom fields

[hmmwhatsthisdo]

Description

New-JiraIssue and Set-JiraIssue perform very poorly when a Jira instance has a large quantity of custom fields. Our development instance has 630 CFs defined and calling Set-JiraIssue (with 3-5 Fields in the -Fields parameter) takes roughly 8 seconds to complete. The underlying HTTP PUT to Jira's REST API for creating the issue is only about 150ms of this.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Configure Jira with a lot (~500) custom fields.
2. Do one of the following. In either case, use the -Fields parameter to set a few custom fields for the given issue type.
   • Create an issue with New-JiraIssue
   • Update an existing issue with Set-JiraIssue
3. Observe performance.

Expected behavior

Response time is relatively performant/semi-aligned with Jira web UI

Screenshots

Your Environment

JiraPS 2.14.7

Possible Solution

New-JiraIssue and Set-JiraIssue appear to be calling Get-JiraField in a loop for each KVP in -Fields. While the call to Get-JiraField contains a -Name parameter, the underlying API is unfiltered. This means that, when creating an issue and specifying 3 fields in the -Fields parameter against an instance with 500 custom fields, we end up retrieving (and parsing!) 1,500 custom field entries.

Two options seem to be available here:

• Hoist the call to Get-JiraField out of the foreach loops here and here
• Use field info from CreateMeta/EditMeta which, AFAICT, has:
• All of the fields available for a given issue type (or issue in its current state)
• Their field IDs
• Those fields' structural/schematic requirements (required or not, type, etc.)
  We're already fetching CreateMeta in New-JiraIssue here, so this is likely a straightforward fix.

[hmmwhatsthisdo]

Upon further inspection, Invoke-JiraIssueTransition (though I haven't tried it) appears to have a similar problem - we're calling Get-JiraField in a loop against the -Fields param contents here:

JiraPS/JiraPS/Public/Invoke-JiraIssueTransition.ps1

Line 150 in 845495f

if ($field = Get-JiraField -Field $name -Credential $Credential) {

There's not a meta endpoint for transitions, though the transitions API endpoint (when contextualized to a specific issue) should provide a map of properties available. This might be a better solve for parameters there (optionally falling back to EditMeta or the fields API)