Getting Error {"errorMessages":[],"errors":{"issuetype":"Specify an issue type"}}, how to fix this?

[siri g]

Hi,

I'm trying to build Jira automation script and below is the script and I been keep on getting this error {"errorMessages":[],"errors":{"issuetype":"Specify an issue type"}}, I tried multiple work arounds adding issue type but neither works. Let me know if you can help on workaround

import requests

import json

url = "https://domain.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue"

headers = {

         "Accept": "application/json",

         "Content-Type": "application/json"

          }

_payload = json.dumps(

    {

        "fields": {

            "project":

                {

                    "key": "AS"

                },

            "summary": "test summary ye merry gentlemen",

            "description": "Test description",

            "issuetype":

                {

                    "name":"task"

                }

        }

    }

)

response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data= _payload, auth=("username", "ATATT3xFfGF0Z5qiPLOwB8PZoyQ0uiB9eYMfe94IOweLmfZ88GULhmB7TuposTGtAjA25tIShk19Ar6LhKIthV_DOW_3i70cJksiVMlQy8A_MNspw0jjPlEJcXhwTxVp-aFsIlU2O4W5q85lYk6rNiuj9JK0Z1EQcVjs2ly4vIFSHRzMEjL2JTo=85C16638"))

print(response.text)

[Mikael Sandberg]

Hi @siri g,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

Your issue type definition is wrong, you need to use the internal Id for the issue type, not the display name.

It should look something like this:

"issuetype": {

    "id": "10000"

}, 

There are a couple of ways to get the Id, have a look at this KB for more information.

[Sergei Bershadskii]

Hello! I'm receiving the same error while creating an issue via the JIRA Cloud extension in Slack, in the scope of automation. It has worked for a long time till today. I can not manage the requests it sends or the issue types it fetches itself.

[DANIEL FERREIRA DE SOUZA]

It would then be the case to correct the documentation, which clearly states that the request would be as follows:

curl \

    -D- \

    -u charlie:charlie \

    -X POST \

    --data {} \

    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \

    http: //localhost:8080/rest/api/2/issue/

{

    "fields": {

        "project": {

            "key": "TEST"

        },

        "summary": "REST ye merry gentlemen.",

        "description": "Creating an issue using project keys and issue type names with the REST API",

        "issuetype": {

            "name": "Bug"

        }

    }

}

[Mikael Sandberg]

@DANIEL FERREIRA DE SOUZA, the documentation you are referring too only applies to Data Center, the API for Cloud, which the question was for, is different.