BULK EDIT ISSUE Using JIRA REST API

[Karan S]

I tried using Jira's bulk edit issue but it works fine when i try to add labels to a work item but throws error when i try to edit description or summary.

This is the payload i used for editing labels,

{
    "editedFieldsInput": {
        "labelsFields": [
            {
                "bulkEditMultiSelectFieldOption": "ADD",
                "fieldId": "labels",
                "labels": [
                    {
                        "name": "Test"
                    }
                ]
            }
        ],
    },
    "selectedActions": [
        "description"
    ],
    "selectedIssueIdsOrKeys": [
        "BBD-574"
    ],
}

It worked perfectly fine. This is the payload iam trying to use for description,

{
    "editedFieldsInput": {
        "richTextFields": [
            {
                "fieldId": "description",
                "richText": {
                    "version": 1,
                    "type": "doc",
                    "content": [
                        {
                            "type": "heading",
                            "attrs": {
                                "level": 3
                            },
                            "content": [
                                {
                                    "type": "text",
                                    "text": "Story:"
                                }
                            ]
                        },
                    ]
                }
            }
        ]
    },
    "selectedActions": [
        "description"
    ],
    "selectedIssueIdsOrKeys": [
        "BBD-574"
    ],
}

It is throwing error like check the payload something. WHat am i missing here?

[Dick · Accepted solution]

Hi @Karan S Welcome to the Atlassian Community,

There's a comma too much within the square brackets belonging to the "content": [   ]   bit.

Your element within (nice boundaries with curly braces, is followed with a comma that would suggest another element. But there is no second element, so the parsing goes wrong.

Kind regards,
Dick

[Karan S]

data = {
    "editedFieldsInput": {
        "richTextFields": [
            {
                "fieldId": "description",
                "richText": {
                    "version": 1,
                    "type": "doc",
                    "content": [
                        {
                            "type": "heading",
                            "attrs": {
                                "level": 3
                            },
                            "content": [
                                {
                                    "type": "text",
                                    "text": "Story:"
                                }
                            ]
                        }
                    ]
                }
            }
        ]
    },
    "selectedActions": [
        "description"
    ],
    "selectedIssueIdsOrKeys": [
        "BBD-574"
    ],
}

I tried that also its still giving 
2025-05-02,18:58:48 __main__:1751 - ERROR:{"errorMessages":["Invalid request payload. Refer to the REST API documentation and try again."]}

Not sure what am i missing,

[Jim Knepley - ReleaseTEAM]

@Karan S, I agree with @Dick, trailing commas are fine in JavaScript, but aren't valid for JSON documents. In your updated reply, there's a trailing comma at the very bottom.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Trailing_commas#trailing_commas_in_json

[Karan S]

I tried its still same issue. I think summary and description fields can be edited during bulk epic I think

[Karan S]