Paginates the JIRA API for issue retrieval

JiraIssueImporterPaginate.py

def RetrieveJiraIssuesPaginate(baseurl, key, user, password, maxper):
    retval = []
    base64string = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (user, password)).replace('\n', '')
    maxResults = maxper
    startAt = 0
    total = 0
    keepgoing = True
    while keepgoing:
        url = baseurl + '/rest/api/2/search?jql=project=' + key + '&maxResults=' + str(maxResults) + '&startAt=' + str(startAt)
        request = urllib2.Request(url)
        request.add_header("Authorization", "Basic %s" % base64string)
        response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
        rs = json.load(response)
        totalrecs = rs['total']
        for issue in rs['issues']:
            total += 1
            retval.append(issue['key'])
            print issue['key']
        startAt += maxResults
        if total >= totalrecs:
            keepgoing = False
    return retval