How to Create Issue via REST API in JIRA Studio 4.4 (hosted, not Ondemand)?

[Martin Wickline]

REST API documentation for JIRA 4.4 https://developer.atlassian.com/static/rest/jira/4.4.1.html doesn't seem to include a way to create an Issue remotely.

I see that functionality in the JIRA 5.0 REST API documentation. https://developer.atlassian.com/static/rest/jira/5.0.html

I need to be able to create an issue via the remote API in JIRA 4.4 (specifically version 4.4-studio-rc2). Is there a non-REST remote API that supports issue creation in this version of JIRA (Studio, hosted)?

Please don't answer that we need to upgrade to OnDemand, I need something that can work today.

Thanks!

[Martin Wickline · Accepted solution]

Finally figured it out, by repeated guess and check (without much help from the remote API error messages, which were pretty much all the same as above):

{'jsonrpc':'2.0',
 'method':'createIssue',
 'params': [ 'authToken',
             '{"description": "Some description", 
               ###"labels": ["a", "b"], ##Doesn't accept labels
               "summary": "A summary", 
               ### No sub-hashmaps, just direct values
               "project": "DUMMY", 
               ### Can't use issue type name, must use numeric ID
               "issuetype": "18",
               ### Date value uses Long seconds since epoch
               "duedate": 1345326445000}'
           ],
 'id': 'someRequestId',
}

[Barrett Cook]

I ran into this issue and spent hours trying to create an issue. Here's how we solved it in node.

https://gist.github.com/3764020

The relevant part was that the "type" field (issue type) must be an integer (not a string).

[Dieter]

Use the RPC interface http://docs.atlassian.com/rpc-jira-plugin/latest/com/atlassian/jira/rpc/soap/JiraSoapService.html#createIssue(java.lang.String,%20com.atlassian.jira.rpc.soap.beans.RemoteIssue)

[Bob Swift]

createIssue action from the JIRA Command Line Interface . This action uses the SOAP API.

[Martin Wickline]

Thanks for the responses. I'm trying to use the JSON-RPC variant of the SOAP API as documented here:

https://developer.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/JIRA+JSON-RPC+Overview

However, I'm getting an exception that isn't explained in the documentation that I can find:

{'jsonrpc': u'2.0', 
 'id': 'dummyRequestId', 
 'error': {'message': 'Request parameter types did not match method parameter types (method createIssue taking 2 parameters)', 
             'code': -32602, 
             'data': None}
}

I'm sending something like the following in the POST JSON body:

{'jsonrpc':'2.0',
 'method':'createIssue',
 'params': [ 'authToken',

                  '{"description": "Some description", "labels": {"value": ["a", "b"]}, "summary": "A summary", "project": {"key": "DUMMY"}, "issuetype": {"name": "Bug"}, "duedate": {"value": "2012-02-01"}}'],
 'id':requestId,

}

BTW, I can grab an existing issue via the JSON-RPC call to getIssue(), and take the resulting JSON-formatted issue string and send it to the createIssue() selector and get this same error.

Any ideas?