Illegal unquoted character error when using REST API example

Esther Strom

I'm trying to create a new issue using the PHP example in the API docs. I've copied the code pretty much exactly; just edited a few field names. But I keep getting this error from curl:

Response from creating abc123: {"errorMessages":["Illegal unquoted character ((CTRL-CHAR, code 13)): has to be escaped using backslash to be included in string value\n at [Source: org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteInputStream@2173bded; line: 10, column: 42]"]}

Here's my code; can anyone help me out here? 

 

<?php
$vId = "abc123";
$body = <<<REQUESTBODY
{

  "fields": {
   "summary": "WhiteHat: test",
   "issuetype": {
     "id": "10041"
   },
   "customfield_10104": "$vId",
   "customfield_10105": "5",
   "customfield_10107": "www.mysite.com,
   "customfield_10108": "www.mysite.com/register",
   
   "project": {
     "id": "10037"
   },
   "description": "Testing creation",
   "reporter": {
     "name": "Jira Monkey"
   },
   
   "environment": {
     "type": "doc",
     "version": 1,
     "content": [
      {
        "type": "paragraph",
        "content": [
         {
           "text": "environment",
           "type": "text"
         }
        ]
      }
     ]
   }
  }
}
REQUESTBODY;

$ch = curl_init();
$url = "https://mysite.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue";


$headers = array(
"Content-Type:application/json",
    "Accept:application/json",
    "Authorization: Basic <my_key>"
);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $body);

//execute post
$result = curl_exec($ch);
$array = json_decode($result,TRUE);
error_log("+++Response from creating $vId: " . print_r($result, 1));
curl_close($ch);

Matthias Gaiser _K15t_

Hi @Esther Strom

in general I'd recommend you to ask these type of questions in the developer community - there's a higher chance that another developer looks at it.

Having said that, you might want to check this line:

   "customfield_10107": "www.mysite.com,

It looks like you missed a quotation mark at the end. If it still fails, I suggest to strip down your example to the bare minimum like project and summary (or other required fields you have).

Good luck,
Matthias.