problems creating PR's between forks using the API

[palmin]

I'm trying to add pull request support to my Git client Working Copy and having trouble pull request is between forks. In these tries I'm authenticated as user=workingcopy that has pullrequest privileges.

Specifically I try to make a PR where the source master branch on
    https://bitbucket.org/workingcopy/game/
and the destination is master branch on
    https://bitbucket.org/palmin/game/

I POST the pull request content

    {"title" = "My title",
     "destination": {"branch": "master"},
     "source": {"branch": "master", 
                "repository": {"repo_slug": "game", 
                               "username": "workingcopy"}}
    }

to the endpoint
    https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/palmin/game/pullrequests
but this gives me the errror message
   "Source and destination must be different"

I tried including the "repository" dictionary inside "destination" but the error is the same.

I'm also having trouble creating cross-repository pull requests when branch names are different.

Trying to create a pull request where the source master branch on
    https://bitbucket.org/workingcopy/game/
and the destination is release branch on
    https://bitbucket.org/palmin/game/
I get the error message
    "You do not have access to repository palmin/game and therefore you can not create a pull request."

The web-interface allows me to open a pull request like this when logged in as "workingcopy".

Any suggestions on things to do differently?

[Ana Retamal · Accepted solution]

Hi Anders,

I've talked to some of my colleagues from the Bitbucket Cloud team and they provided the following solution. Can you edit this command according to your needs?

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -u username:apppass https://bitbucket.org/api/2.0/repositories/testingteamlog/repositorya/pullrequests -d '{ "title": "anotherBranch to master", "description": "AUTO: anotherBranch to master", "source": { "branch": { "name": "anotherBranch" }, "repository": { "full_name": "testingteamlog/repositorya" } }, "destination": { "branch": { "name": "master" } }, "close_source_branch": false }'
his syntax was wrong
he used this for source:

"source": {"branch": "master",
"repository": {"repo_slug": "game",
"username": "workingcopy"}}

while this is the source:
source": { "branch": { "name": "anotherBranch" }, "repository": { "full_name": "testingteamlog/repositorya" } }

Hope that helps!

Ana 

[palmin]

Thank you. This is just what I needed. 🙏

Not sure why I couldn't figure this out on my own, but I did try many things.