Search based on jira summary

[Vijay Reddy]

Before creating an issue I need to see if there's an issue with similar summary(name) and active and only create if there's none and append it to the existing issue if there's one already.

1.I want to send summary as a variable

p_summary="XYZ.dtsx

jira.search_issues('project=DI and summary~p_summary and status="To Do"', maxResults=5)

Ticket_id=issue.key
print(Ticket_id)

2.when there's no matching issue it doesn't result anything for the below.How do I handle it.

Ticket_id=issue.key
print(Ticket_id)

[Thomas Schlegel]

Hi @Vijay Reddy ,

the JQL would be 

project = DI and summary ~ "TESTEU Sales"

[Vijay Reddy]

Thanks @Thomas Schlegel  but I wanna pass it as variable .Is there a way?

[Thomas Schlegel]

OK, you didn't mention that in your first post before editing it. I'm not experienced in using the Jira programming interface, I'm sorry.