How to get the current active sprint for a given project using the REST API?

[Venkat Mavillapalli]

I'm currently using the POST method URL https://abc.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue to add an issue and sending the following JSON in the body. I'm successfully able to create the bug in the project where I have access.. But, I would like to add this bug into the active sprint. Don't know how and I have tried to check all the documentation but no avail.

{

    "fields": {

       "project":

       {

          "key": "EMMM"

       },

       "summary": "REST Test.",

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

       "issuetype": {

          "name": "Bug"

       }

   }

}

[Bill Sheboy · Accepted solution]

Hi @Venkat Mavillapalli -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

I believe you would need to get all sprints for the board, and then identify the one with a state that is "active":

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/software/rest/api-group-board/#api-rest-agile-1-0-board-boardid-sprint-get

Once you have the sprint id, you can create the issue using the custom field id for sprint in your site to set the value.

Kind regards,
Bill

[Venkat Mavillapalli]

Thanks for your help

[Connor Stricklan]

This answer helped me, but you don't need to get all sprints, you can query for only the active one

.../rest/agile/1.0/board/{boardNumber}/sprint?state=active