New /createmeta REST endpoint solution of Jira throws 404

[Vincent von Büren]

Hi there, 

According to this post: https://confluence.atlassian.com/jiracore/createmeta-rest-endpoint-to-be-removed-975040986.html, the /createmeta endpoint will be replaced with the solution described in the post. 

My approach so far:
I am currently using a script which uses the endpoint: 

/rest/api/2/issue/createmeta?projectKeys=%s&expand=projects.issuetypes.fields

, to extract the issuetypes fields. 

Following the solution in the post (see link above), I changed my request to: 

/rest/api/2/issue/createmeta/{projectId}/issuetypes

, and for the projectId, I use the id number I get from the request:

/rest/api/2/project

In both request, I use Basic Authorization.

Additional info:
I also used version 3 of the API but still not success. Everytime I get a 404 back. My client is using the Jira Cloud. I also tried the request with: 

/rest/api/2/issue/createmeta/{projectId}/issuetypes/{issueId}

, but this also did not work. 

Thanks in advance for your help/ideas :)

[Kishan Sharma · Accepted solution]

Can you confirm if this is for Data Center or Cloud ? For me it worked for Data Center.

[Vincent von Büren]

Hi Kishan, 

Thanks for the quick feedback and help. 

Yep, I can confirm that this is for Cloud. 

[Kishan Sharma]

Hi @Vincent von Büren , as far as i know, it won't work for you because dark feature functionality is not yet available on jira cloud. You can start watching this bug

[Vincent von Büren]

Hi Kishan, 

I had a chat with the senior devs at my company and he said that the deprecation of the /createmeta endpoint is only relevant for the Jira Server, but NOT for the JIRA Cloud. He then highlighted that the REST API for the Jira Server is different to the REST API of the Jira Cloud. 

Looking at the changelog of the Jira Cloud, there is no indication that the /createmeta endpoint won't be supported in the future. 

Looking at the changelog/reference sheet of the Jira Server REST API, there is clearly the note that /createmeta will be soon deprecated. 

To sum it up, I think that I was looking for a problem which never actually existed. Because again, for the REST API Jira Cloud, the /createmeta endpoint continues to work. 

Links:

Changelog Jira Cloud: https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/changelog/ 

Changelog/Reference sheet for Jira Server REST Api mentions the deprecated /createmeta entpoint: https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/REST/8.18.1/#api/2/issue-getCreateIssueMeta 


What do you think?

[Kishan Sharma]

Hi Vincent,

You are right, I have just tested few things here. You need to use v3 API. refer below -

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

I am able to extract the issuetypes fields with below endpoints.

eg:

https://<yourdomain>/rest/api/3/issue/createmeta?projectIds=10000
https://<yourdomain>/rest/api/3/issue/createmeta?projectIds=10000&issuetypeIds=10002

Please check if this works for you too.

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