Issue with date field when trying to create new version via REST API

Question

Hi all,

I am trying to automate versions in JIRA via the REST API, in a bash script as a part of our pipeline, but for some reason the requests keep failing on the releaseDate and userReleaseDate. releaseDate returns "Error parsing date string" and for some strange reason userReleaseDate doesnt like the format given in the documentation.

Does anyone know how to resolve this?

Thanks,

Alex

P.S.

$

releaseDate=`date +%Y/%m/%d`
stringify=$releaseDate

["Unable to unmarshal (to type [simple type, class java.lang.String]): Error parsing date string: {{$releaseDate}} (through ref
erence chain: com.atlassian.jira.rest.v2.issue.version.VersionBean[\"releaseDate\"])"]

userReleaseDate=`date +%d/%b/%y`
stringify=$userReleaseDate

{"errorMessages":[],"errors":{"releaseDate":"Please enter the date in the following format: d/MMM/yy"}}

-d '{

"description": "{{jiraDescription}}",

"name": "{{$jiraName}}",

"archived": false, "

released": false,

"userReleaseDate": "{{$userReleaseDate}}",

"project": "FOO",

"projectId": 1234}'

}'

Rakesh Kumar_idhtyk · Answer

Hi Alex,

Please use the format for releaseDate same as you have used for userReleaseDate as this is the correct format seems to me.

releaseDate=`date +%d/%b/%y`
stringify=$releaseDate

Regards,

Rakesh

jira guy_ymfmzd · Answer

The date input format is probably wrong.

Check the response from Atlassian here on a similar question

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Date-time-format-in-the-REST-API-giving-error-response-Operation/qaq-p/617999

Alex Cooke · Answer

I was just thinking that as I posted the question. Added snippets of code.