Unable to add Fix version

akmalick

I am trying to add Fix Version to an issue via a curl request. That particular jira Issue page does have "Fix Version/s:" field. Also the create Issue screen contains the field "Fix Version/s:". But somehow it is not letting me to add the fix version.

Honestly speaking the Jira Rest API is not that user-friendly. Its pretty tough to understand what the API needs. I might be wrong, in which case I seek your guidance.

Additionally if you could guide me how to achieve this same result using Jira Rest Java Client.

I went through the documentation "the Operation (verb) based update (explicit verb via "update")" 

As per the documentation, The general structure of an update is field, array of verb-value pairs. For example:

{ "update": {

    "field1": [ {"verb": value}, {"verb": value}, ...],

    "field2": [ {"verb": value}, {"verb": value}, ...],

}}

If I go by the above explanation then for my case of updating fixVersion the structure would look sth like :

{ "update": {

    "fixVersions": [ {"add": "AB 2022.02.000"}]

}}

So as per above format my request should be :

curl -D- -u ${ADMIN_USER}:${ADMIN_PASSWORD} -X PUT --data "{\"update\" : { \"fixVersions\" : [{\"add\":\"AB 2022.02.00\"}]}}" -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://jira2.company.com/rest/api/2/issue/ProjCode-12345

If I execute above command I get below response :

{"errorMessages":[],"errors":{"fixVersions":"Field 'fixVersions' cannot be set. It is not on the appropriate screen, or unknown."}}

I looked for similar issues online and came across a couple of Atlassian community threads, but they didn't seem to help my cause.

Below are the different curl requests (along-with their response) that I have tried executing based on the suggestions that I came across :

Request #1 :

curl -D- -u ${ADMIN_USER}:${ADMIN_PASSWORD} -X PUT --data "{\"update\" : { \"fixVersions\" : {\"add\":{\"name\":\"AB 2022.02.000\"}}}}" -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://jira2.company.com/rest/api/2/issue/ProjCode-12345

Response #1 :

{"errorMessages":["Can not deserialize instance of java.util.ArrayList out of START_OBJECT token\n at [Source: org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteInputStream@29848f08; line: 1, column: 15] (through reference chain: com.atlassian.jira.rest.v2.issue.IssueUpdateBean[\"update\"])"]}

Request #2 :

curl -D- -u ${ADMIN_USER}:${ADMIN_PASSWORD} -X PUT --data "{\"update\" : { \"fixVersions\" : {\"add\":[{\"name\":\"AB 2022.02.000\"}]}}}" -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://jira2.company.com/rest/api/2/issue/ProjCode-12345

Response #2 :

{"errorMessages":["Can not deserialize instance of java.util.ArrayList out of START_OBJECT token\n at [Source: org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteInputStream@14c3752f; line: 1, column: 15] (through reference chain: com.atlassian.jira.rest.v2.issue.IssueUpdateBean[\"update\"])"]}

Request #3 :

curl -D- -u ${ADMIN_USER}:${ADMIN_PASSWORD} -X PUT --data "{\"update\" : { \"fixVersions\" : [{\"add\":[{\"name\":\"AB 2022.02.000\"}]}]}}" -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://jira2.company.com/rest/api/2/issue/ProjCode-12345

Response #3 :

{"errorMessages":[],"errors":{"fixVersions":"Field 'fixVersions' cannot be set. It is not on the appropriate screen, or unknown."}}

Request #4 :

curl -D- -u ${ADMIN_USER}:${ADMIN_PASSWORD} -X PUT --data "{\"update\" : { \"fixVersions\" : [{\"add\":{\"name\":\"AB 2022.02.000\"}}]}}" -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://jira2.company.com/rest/api/2/issue/ProjCode-12345

Response #4 :

{"errorMessages":[],"errors":{"fixVersions":"Field 'fixVersions' cannot be set. It is not on the appropriate screen, or unknown."}}

Michael Hedman_fd3980

first, I would check to see if you can see the field on the issue page as an available field.  I have one issue type that doesn't have fixVersions assigned to it, and another that does.  

 

I was getting the same error which led me here.  

 

My final curl command that worked was something like this:

 

curl --request PUT \

--url 'https://YOURURL.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue/ISSUE_ID' \

--user 'USER:APIKEY' \

 --header 'Accept: application/json' \

 --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \

 --data '{

 "update": {

 "fixVersions": [

 {

 "add": {"name":"Test Version"}

 }

 ]

 }

 }'