[Rest Client] Add helper method to get content

_get_response_content is to be used for chaining together response
retrieval. This is useful in the case where you are querying the API and
then immediately extracting some data from the response. This method is
needed to account for the case where advanced mode is on and the initial
get call returns a requests.Response rather than a dictionary.

Author: gibsramen

atlassian/rest_client.py

@@ -362,6 +362,34 @@ def get(
                 log.error(e)
                 return response.text
 
+    def _get_response_content(
+        self,
+        *args,
+        fields,
+        **kwargs,
+    ):
+        """
+        :param fields: list of tuples in the form (field_name, default value (optional)).
+            Used for chaining dictionary value accession.
+            E.g. [("field1", "default1"), ("field2", "default2"), ("field3", )]
+        """
+        response = self.get(*args, **kwargs)
+        if "advanced_mode" in kwargs:
+            advanced_mode = kwargs["advanced_mode"]
+        else:
+            advanced_mode = self.advanced_mode
+
+        if not advanced_mode:  # dict
+            for field in fields:
+                response = response.get(*field)
+        else:  # requests.Response
+            first_field = fields[0]
+            response = response.json().get(*first_field)
+            for field in fields[1:]:
+                response = response.get(*field)
+
+        return response
+
     def post(
         self,
         path,