How to mark an issue as Dupplicate of other in JIRA using JAVA code

Question

Hi All,

I am new to this

I am tring to mark an issue as duplicate on another in JIRA.

String jsonRequest = "{"update":{ "issuelinks":[{"add":{"type":{"name":"Duplicate"},"inwardIssue":{"key":"XTABC-123"},"outwardIssue":{"key":"XTDEF-456"},"comment":{"body":"Duplicate of XTDEF-456"}}}]}}";

many people have suggested to use JSON object instead of String

converted it to Json object

final Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().setPrettyPrinting().create();
Object jsonObject = gson.fromJson(jsonRequest, Object.class);

but got this error

{"errorMessages":["Unexpected character ('u' (code 117)): was expecting double-quote to start field name
 at [Source: org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteInputStream@12cc67c1; line: 1, column: 3]"]}

Please suggest where i am getting wrong.

Shal_704jj9 · Answer

Thanks for reply  @Gonchik Tsymzhitov

Is the added fields inside update in jsonRequest enough to mark one issue as duplicate of other?

Gonchik Tsymzhitov · Answer

Hi @Shal ,

Did you check the string jsonRequest is json convertible ?

Because as I see you can generate in other way

https://www.javatpoint.com/java-json-example