Create an Issue with Epic as parent using REST API

Vijay Gopu

Hi,

I am able to create an Epic using REST api. But unable to create issue under the created EPIC? How do i do this?

 

EPIC: [Success]

POST : /rest/api/2/issue

Request:

{
"fields": {
"project":{"key": "JIRA PROJECT"},
"summary": "Customer : Customer Name",
"description": "[TEST] : Creating of an issue using project keys and issue type names using the REST API",
"issuetype": {"name": "Epic"},
"customfield_10008": "Customer : Customer Name"
}
}

Issue: [Failed]

POST : /rest/api/2/issuetype

Request:

{
"fields":{
"project":{"key": "JIRA PROJECT"},
"parent": {"key": "JIRA PROJECT-1336"},
"summary": "Application Name: Customer Name",
"description": "Don't forget to do this too.",
"issuetype": {"name": "Project"}
}
}

Exception:

{    "errorMessages": [        "Unrecognized field \"fields\" (Class com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.rest.json.beans.IssueTypeCreateBean), not marked as ignorable\n at [Source: org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteInputStream@344973c6; line: 3, column: 6] (through reference chain: com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.rest.json.beans.IssueTypeCreateBean[\"fields\"])"    ]}

 

Also if i change the URI to /rest/api/2/issue then i get a different exception:

{    "errorMessages": [],    "errors": {        "issuetype": "Issue type 11100 is not a sub-task but a parent is specified."    }}

 

1. Why is that i am able to create the an issue under Epic using the user interface but not via the REST api?

 

2. Is this a permission issue or am i doing something wrong. I couldn't figure out. I got the full access for the project to create any type of ticket.

Please let me know.

Thank you,

Vijay

 

 

 

 

 

 

Najjar _Innovura_

Issue in epic are not considered subtasks of epic

Jira has a Customfield named Epic Link

If you would like to create an issue under an epic, the child issue of the epic should have epic link custom field value with the epic key

 

Note, Parent is only used for creating subtakss