Creating a PR comment via REST API

Matthias Redies

I am trying to follow this example:

https://developer.atlassian.com/server/bitbucket/rest/v806/api-group-pull-requests/#api-api-latest-projects-projectkey-repos-repositoryslug-pull-requests-pullrequestid-comments-post

and I have modified my python code to this:

<span>def</span> <span>create_comment</span>(<span>pr_id, comment</span>):
    url = <span>f"http://{baseurl}/rest/api/latest/projects/{projectKey}/repos/{repositorySlug}/pull-requests/{pr_id}/comments"</span>
    headers = {<span>"Accept"</span>: <span>"application/json"</span>, <span>"Content-Type"</span>: <span>"application/json"</span>}
    payload = json.dumps({<span>"text"</span>: comment})

    response = requests.request(
        <span>"POST"</span>,
        url,
        data=payload,
        headers=headers,
        verify=<span>False</span>,
        auth=HTTPKerberosAuth(mutual_authentication=OPTIONAL),
    )

    <span>print</span>(response.status_code)

    <span>print</span>(
        json.dumps(
            json.loads(response.text), sort_keys=<span>True</span>, indent=<span>4</span>, separators=(<span>","</span>, <span>": "</span>)
        )
    )

But as a response I always get:

<span>400</span>
{
    <span>"errors"</span>: [
        {
            <span>"context"</span>: null,
            <span>"exceptionName"</span>: null,
            <span>"message"</span>: <span>"The path query parameter is required when retrieving comments."</span>
        }
    ]
}

What am I doing wrong here? I am not trying to retrieve comments. I am trying to add a comment. I can add a ?path=/ to my url, but then I only get an empty list of comments.

Erez Maadani

Hey @Matthias Redies

I think the problem is with the python requests, which on redirect, transform the POST into a GET request.

My guess is that because you are using "http", you get a redirect (301 or 302) to "https", and then the method changes.

If that doesn't help, try adding allow_redirects=False to disable redirections from the server.

Hope that helps