Please help us in using notify rest api. its giving unauthorized error message.

[Deleted user]

Please help us in using notify rest api. its giving unauthorized error message.

public string NotifyToIssueREST(string Username, string Password, string Key)
        {
            RestClient restClient = new RestClient(_url);
            if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(Username) && !String.IsNullOrEmpty(Password))
            {
                restClient.Authenticator = new HttpBasicAuthenticator(Username, Password);
            }

            RestRequest request = new RestRequest();
            request.Method = Method.POST;
            request.Resource = "rest/api/latest/issue/" + Key + "/notify";
            request.RequestFormat = DataFormat.Json;
       //     request.AddBody(new { subject = "my sub", textbody = "My mail", htmlbody = "notify", to = new { assignee = true, users = new[] { new { name = "sneha.bhatt@ef.com", active = true } },groups=new[]{new{name="",self=""}} } });
            request.AddBody(new { subject = "my sub", textbody = "My mail", htmlbody = "notify", to = new { watchers = true } });
            IRestResponse response = restClient.Execute(request);
            if (response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.BadRequest || response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.Forbidden)
                throw new Exception("You are not autherised to use this feature");
            else if (response.StatusCode != HttpStatusCode.OK)
                throw new Exception(string.IsNullOrEmpty(response.Content) ? response.ErrorMessage : response.Content);
            else
                throw new Exception();

        }

[Renjith Pillai]

It may not be unauthorized exception. Your code is handling both the cases in single if condition.

if (response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.BadRequest || response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.Forbidden)

Split that and check what is the real error.