How to send attachement uing Jira Rest API

[Sumaia Kablan]

Hello

I am trying to send a file as attachment using Jira Rest API, I am doing this from inside the electron and I am doing the following:

I am setting the request (Post):

var XMLHttpRequest = require('xhr2');
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("POST","myInstance/rest/api/2/issue/ticketid?attachements",true);
xhr.setRequestHeader("Authorization","Basic"+Buffer.from("myUserName"+":"+"myToken").toStrin("base64"));

I tried once

let file = "file=@'D:\\Testing Jira API\\testing.txt";
xhr.send(file);
xhr.onload = function (){ console.log("the statues is ", status);

and I am getting status 405 (method is not allowed)

also I tried :

let file = new File(["hello", new TextEncoder().encode("world.txt")],"hello.txt);
//using web-file-polyfill

and it didn't work

My question is what is the best approach to attach a file using Jira Rest API ?

[Pramodh M · Accepted solution]

Hi @Sumaia Kablan 

Welcome to the Community!!

Why Complexity? Just Uploading the file directly will do the work

Try this

curl --location \
--request POST 'https://your-domain.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue/TEST-123/attachments' \
-u 'email@example.com:<api_token>' \
-H 'X-Atlassian-Token: no-check' \
--form 'file=@"myfile.txt"'

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-issue-attachments/#api-rest-api-3-issue-issueidorkey-attachments-post

Thanks

[Sumaia Kablan]

Thanx @Pramodh M @for your response .. but my task is requiring to do that using electron, or you mean by calling curl commands (for instance from the node.js itself in the electron using node-libcurl)?

[Pramodh M]

@Sumaia Kablan 

When Using Libraries, we should check once whether it's supported! ( XMLHttpRequest - not sure about this one here)

using Electron is fine, but may I know the method you are following here?

If you see the documentation, there are examples for various methods

[Sumaia Kablan]

@Pramodh M 
I followed the example here
https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-issue-attachments/#api-rest-api-3-issue-issueidorkey-attachments-post
worked for me
thanx for you suggestion

[Sahil Sk]

What can’t I do 

[Sahil Sk]

Yar koi mujy b sikha da kasa krna ha ya

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

Your API endpoint is incorrect

Instead of 

http://myinstance/rest/api/2/issue/ticketid?attachements

you need to use

http://myinstance/rest/api/2/issue/ticketid/attachments

As per https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-issue-attachments/#api-rest-api-3-issue-issueidorkey-attachments-post

Alex

[Sumaia Kablan]

@Alex Medved _ConfiForms_ 

Okay, but I still have a problem if I am trying to use xmlHttpRequest using xhr2

var XMLHttpRequest = require('xhr2');
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();

const fs = require('fs);
const filePath = 'test2.txt';
const state = fs.stateSync(filePath);
const fileSizeInBytes = state.size;
const fileStream = fs.createReadStream(filePath);

form.append('file', fileStream, {knownLength: fileSizeInBytes});
xhr.opern("POST" , "httes://myinstance.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/ticketid/attachements", true);
xhr.setRequestHeader("Authorization", ...);
xhr.setRequestHeader("Accept","application/json");
xhr.setRequestHeader("X-Atlassian-Token", "no-check");
xhr.send(form)

and I am getting unsupported send() data [object FormData]

and I think it is something regarding xhr2 more that jira API itself, so I followed their way

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

You have a typo in 

httes://myinstance.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/ticketid/attachements

And instead of "ticketid" you need to put an ACTUAL Jira issue key

As for "unsupported send() data [object FormData]" - cannot tell as I have no idea what "xhr2" is... if it's an npm package https://www.npmjs.com/package/xhr2 then probably the code makes sense

Anyway the error is on your side (in a script) - not on Jira

[Sumaia Kablan]

@Alex Medved _ConfiForms_ 

for typos and actual jira issue key they are correct in my real code ..I just retyped it here instead of copying it

the problem is in xhr2 itself I guess

send() accepts the following data types: String, ArrayBufferView, ArrayBuffer (deprecated in the standard)

The following standard features are not implemented.

• FormData
• Blob
• file:// URIs
• data: URIs
• upload progress events
• synchronous operation
• Same-origin policy checks and CORS
• cookie processing

Thanx for your help

[Sumaia Kablan]

@Alex Medved _ConfiForms_ 
Yes I know the problem was not in jira ..that is why I accepted the first answer the problem in my script is that I am using xhr2 with formData