How to handle exceptions for invalid user name if assigned via jira rest API

Shrinish

Hello,

 

I am trying to set the assignee of the user as per the command:

PUT: https://localhost:8080/rest/api/2/issue/issue-key/assignee
Content-Type: application/json
Auth: Basic Auth

 

I am getting the following error: 

{ "errorMessages": [], "errors": { "assignee": "User 'sdxwwr' does not exist." }}

 

Could someone help me with the code to catch this exception

 

Note: The field where the user enters his name is a text field

DPKJ

Your rest call should look like this,

curl -D- -u username:password -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://<JIRA_BASE_URL>/rest/api/2/issue/<ISSUE_KEY>/assignee -d "{\"name\":\"<ASSIGNEE_NAME>\"}"

 

Once you hit this API get response and parse it as JSON and it contains key 'errorMessages' or 'errors', it implies you had some error setting assignee. In your case above 'sdxwwr' is not user in your Jira.

 

If you want to know how to do it in any programming language let me know.