Jira REST API Error

Austin Luu_yf2p2m

Hello,

I can't seem to make any API calls to Jira using PowerShell, always getting errors below. Can anyone spot what I'm doing wrong?

$user = 'austin.luu91@gmail.com'
$pass = 'apiToken'

$pair = "$($user):$($pass)"

$encodedCreds = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes($pair))

$basicAuthValue = "Basic $encodedCreds"

$Headers = @{
Authorization = $basicAuthValue
}
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://15sof1.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/search?jql=project = CIT AND issuetype = "JIRA Request" AND (created >= startOfDay(-30d) OR updated >= startOfDay(-30d))' `
-Headers $Headers\

 

Invoke-WebRequest : The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel.
At line:1 char:1
+ Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://15sof1.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/searc ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (System.Net.HttpWebRequest:HttpWebRequest) [Invoke-WebRequest], WebExc
eption
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebCmdletWebResponseException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeWebRequestCommand 

 

Andy Heinzer

Hi Austin,

Sorry to hear that you are having this REST API problem when trying to make requests to an Atlassian Cloud site.  I thought perhaps the problem here was in the way the credentials are passed at first, but the more I look at it, that part looks ok, I think.

My concern is to understand if the call you're making is actually using the HTTP verb GET here or not.  I don't see any parameter that clearly states that.  But since I'm not well versed in powershell, I'm not sure the syntax needed here.   I found a related thread in https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Answers-Developer-Questions/JIRA-Create-an-issue-using-Powershell-without-using-curl/qaq-p/556689 that might be helpful here.  Granted that user is trying to create issues, which uses the POST verb, and your endpoint needs to use the GET verb, but perhaps that can help to correct this.

Alternatively, looking at this again, it could be the URL / URI that you are calling here that could be the problem.  The fact that the URL contains spaces, and mixes the use of single quote ' and double quote " could be a potential problem here in terms of making a valid call.   Two different approaches could help troubleshoot this:

1. Try saving your JQL search into a filter such as
   

   project = CIT AND issuetype = "JIRA Request" AND (created >= startOfDay(-30d) OR updated >= startOfDay(-30d))

   When that filter is saved in Jira, and you view that filter it will have a 5 digit number like 10100.  You can then access that filter with a spaceless URL such as

   https://15sof1.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/search?jql=filter=10100

   I'd be interested to see if that works.   The lack of spaces and quotes here is a good test to see if perhaps those are mucking up the request in an unexpected way or not.
2. Instead of trying a search via REST, see if you can return just a single issue with a call like

   https://15sof1.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/SCRUM-123

   where SCRUM-123 is the issue key of a single issue that your account has access to view.   I'm just interested to see if this call works or if you get a similar error.  This call is also using the GET HTTP verb, so if the error is identical, it tends to indicate that maybe we are not using the correct verb to make this call.
   
   

Please let me know the results.

Cheers,

Andy