Unable to change issue status with REST API

Than Than Aye

Hi,

I tried to update an issue transition and comment with the following POST call, but I kept getting errors. It seems that the issue lies in "transition" but I am not sure how to solve this. I could make GET requests and other POST requests like adding comments fine.

url = '/rest/api/2/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/transitions'
payload = {
"update": {
"comment": [
{
"add": {
"body": "test"
}
}
]
},
"transition": {
"id": "2"
}
}
response = requests.post(url,data=payload, headers=headers)

Error Msg

{"errorMessages":["Unrecognized token 'transition': was expecting 'null', 'true', 'false' or NaN\n at [Source: org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteInputStream@558dc7a5; line: 1, column: 12]"]}

If I add json.dumps() to the payload, the error messages changes.

{"errorMessages":["Internal server error"],"errors":{}}

 Appreciate your help

Randy_dyxb6i

what language are you using?  Python?  

 

That error indicates your payload is not formatted correctly.