How to send attachement uing Jira Rest API

Sumaia Kablan

Hello

I am trying to send a file as attachment using Jira Rest API, I am doing this from inside the electron and I am doing the following:

I am setting the request (Post):

var XMLHttpRequest = require('xhr2');
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("POST","myInstance/rest/api/2/issue/ticketid?attachements",true);
xhr.setRequestHeader("Authorization","Basic"+Buffer.from("myUserName"+":"+"myToken").toStrin("base64"));

I tried once

let file = "file=@'D:\\Testing Jira API\\testing.txt";
xhr.send(file);
xhr.onload = function (){ console.log("the statues is ", status);

and I am getting status 405 (method is not allowed)

also I tried :

let&nbsp;file&nbsp;=&nbsp;new&nbsp;File(["hello",&nbsp;new&nbsp;TextEncoder().encode("world.txt")],"hello.txt);<br>//using&nbsp;web-file-polyfill

and it didn't work

My question is what is the best approach to attach a file using Jira Rest API ?

Pramodh M

Hi @Sumaia Kablan 

Welcome to the Community!!

Why Complexity? Just Uploading the file directly will do the work

Try this

curl --location \
--request POST 'https://your-domain.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue/TEST-123/attachments' \
-u 'email@example.com:<api_token>' \
-H 'X-Atlassian-Token: no-check' \
--form 'file=@myfile.txt'

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-issue-attachments/#api-rest-api-3-issue-issueidorkey-attachments-post

Thanks