Rest API to add watchers to Issue

Question

Hi Team,

Can anybody help me to get the REST API to add watchers to an Issue. I tried providing the input JSON by passing the 'username' as {"username":"XXXXX"},'accountId' as {"accountId":"XXXXXXXX"} and 'displayname' as {"displayname":"XXXXX"} to the API 'https://XXXXX/rest/api/2/issue/IP-72/watchers' in Postman, but i was not able to add watchers to issue. Could anybody help me out on this.

Thanks & Regards,

Luman.

ISSQ Account · Answer

Hi Niranjan,

I tried passing the username in double quotes in the json, but i was not able to add watchers to issue. I tried passing accountId in double quotes. Then i was able to add watchers to issue. But now when i tried passing more than 1 accountId in double quotes by coma separated values, it is throwing 404 bad request. Could u please help me out on this.

Thanks & Regards,

Luman.

Niranjan · Answer

Hi @ISSQ Account ,

Kindly check the script in this link. I have not tested it, but looks like it would work. I am not good with scripting, but you may need to get the usernames in a list and iterate over it.

https://justinit.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/jira-add-watchers-at-issue-creation/

com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager def componentManager = ComponentManager.getInstance()def watcherManager = componentManager.getWatcherManager()def userManager = componentManager.getUserUtil() def watchUsers = {usernames ->   usernames.each {         def user = userManager.getUser(it)         watcherManager.startWatching(user, issue.getGenericValue())      }}    def users = ["comma", "separated", "usernames"]   watchUsers(users)import

ISSQ Account · Answer

Hi Niranjan,

Thanks a lot for your quick response. It worked for me when I set the permissions. Could you please help me out how can i pass two or more watchers in json to the rest api.

Thanks & Regards,

Luman.