Insert new items into a custom Select List with REST/Scriptrunner

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Hi,

I'm running JIRA Cloud

I've been looking for an easy way to insert many items into a Select List without doing it manually.

It seems I should use the REST API commands:

https://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/cloud/#api/2/field/{fieldKey}/option

But I've been unable to get it to work using ScriptRunner. I've tried the following command:

get('/rest/api/2/field/customfield_10947/option')

And I get the following result

undefined

com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException: Direct self-reference leading to cycle (through reference chain: com.adaptavist.sr.cloud.output.ScriptExecutionOutput["result"]->groovy.util.Proxy["adaptee"]->com.mashape.unirest.request.GetRequest["httpRequest"])
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.BeanPropertyWriter._handleSelfReference(BeanPropertyWriter.java:781)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.BeanPropertyWriter.serializeAsField(BeanPropertyWriter.java:569)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.std.BeanSerializerBase.serializeFields(BeanSerializerBase.java:666)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.BeanSerializer.serialize(BeanSerializer.java:156)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.BeanPropertyWriter.serializeAsField(BeanPropertyWriter.java:575)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.std.BeanSerializerBase.serializeFields(BeanSerializerBase.java:666)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.BeanSerializer.serialize(BeanSerializer.java:156)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.BeanPropertyWriter.serializeAsField(BeanPropertyWriter.java:575)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.std.BeanSerializerBase.serializeFields(BeanSerializerBase.java:666)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.std.BeanSerializerBase.serializeWithType(BeanSerializerBase.java:552)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.impl.TypeWrappedSerializer.serialize(TypeWrappedSerializer.java:32)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.DefaultSerializerProvider.serializeValue(DefaultSerializerProvider.java:129)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectWriter._configAndWriteValue(ObjectWriter.java:1052)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectWriter.writeValueAsString(ObjectWriter.java:923)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectWriter$writeValueAsString.call(Unknown Source)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectWriter$writeValueAsString.call(Unknown Source)

And logs

2017-01-04 15:00:42,847 ERROR - Failed to serialise output
com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException: Direct self-reference leading to cycle (through reference chain: com.adaptavist.sr.cloud.output.ScriptExecutionOutput["result"]->groovy.util.Proxy["adaptee"]->com.mashape.unirest.request.GetRequest["httpRequest"])
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.BeanPropertyWriter._handleSelfReference(BeanPropertyWriter.java:781)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.BeanPropertyWriter.serializeAsField(BeanPropertyWriter.java:569)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.std.BeanSerializerBase.serializeFields(BeanSerializerBase.java:666)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.BeanSerializer.serialize(BeanSerializer.java:156)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.BeanPropertyWriter.serializeAsField(BeanPropertyWriter.java:575)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.std.BeanSerializerBase.serializeFields(BeanSerializerBase.java:666)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.BeanSerializer.serialize(BeanSerializer.java:156)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.BeanPropertyWriter.serializeAsField(BeanPropertyWriter.java:575)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.std.BeanSerializerBase.serializeFields(BeanSerializerBase.java:666)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.std.BeanSerializerBase.serializeWithType(BeanSerializerBase.java:552)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.impl.TypeWrappedSerializer.serialize(TypeWrappedSerializer.java:32)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.DefaultSerializerProvider.serializeValue(DefaultSerializerProvider.java:129)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectWriter._configAndWriteValue(ObjectWriter.java:1052)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectWriter.writeValueAsString(ObjectWriter.java:923)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectWriter$writeValueAsString.call(Unknown Source)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectWriter$writeValueAsString.call(Unknown Source)

I haven't used REST much so there might be something simple I'm missing here like how to convert the data to something readable once received or how to structure the arguments on PUT calls. If there is another way of doing this I would love to know.

For the PUT I believe I'll have to use:

PUT /rest/api/2/field/{fieldKey}/option/{optionId}

Any information you can give me will be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards

Thomas P. Hargreaves

 

Jon Bevan _Adaptavist_

Hi Thomas,

Sadly Atlassian haven't provided a REST API for doing what you're looking for here.

The documentation you linked to specifies that those endpoints only work for Issue Fields as opposed to Custom Fields.

Thanks, Jon