Use html-code in Issue

[Carsten Stepan]

I'am in the task of migrating some tickets from our old system to Jira. In the old one we have plenty of HTML-code. When I retrieve the issues from that server, I get a descriotion similar to this for instance:

\n\tHallo Welt

 When I manually create a new issue in my board containing that description, everything works foine (despite the text not being formated, as the parser can't interoret HTML-markdown, apparently). 

However when doing this using the REST-API, I get an HTTP (Bad Request)-response:

var description = "\n\tHallo Welt";

var data = $@"{{
  ""fields"": {{
    ""project"":
    {{
      ""id"": 1234
    }},
    ""summary"": ""MyTitle"",
    ""description"": ""{ description }"",
    ""issuetype"": {{
      ""name"": ""Bug""
    }}
  }}
}}";
var content = new StringContent(data, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");
var response = await httpClient.PostAsync($" { host }/issue", content);
var responseText = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

 I also tried to convert the HTML to markdown. However markdown-support also seems pretty limited in JIRA.

[Carsten Stepan · Accepted solution]

Oooooutsh, that hurts.. had to escape the linebreaks \n with \\n and the tabs \t with \\t in the `description`.