Creating an issue using custom fields NAME instead of ID?

Question

In your docs you explained how to create an issue using custom fields. In your examples: "customfield_11050" : {"Value that we're putting into a Free Text Field."}

So my question is, how can I set some custom field if I don't know ID and I know it's NAME.
I would like to do something like this:

"customfield_NAME_OF_THAT_FIELD" : {"Value that we're putting into a Free Text Field."}

Can you give me some advice how to do that?
Thank you

oswaldo zapata · Answer

Thanks this was what I was looking for

rich · Answer

One thing you can do is cache the results of /issue/createmeta (https://developer.atlassian.com/static/rest/jira/5.2.9.html#id244429) (make sure you pass in the expand=projects.issuetypes.fields query param to expand the fields. The response will give you the metadata available and required to create an issue. You'll find the fields in an array with customfields that look like this:

"customfield_10250": {
              "required": false,
              "schema": {
                "type": "string",
                "custom": "com.atlassian.jira.toolkit:message",
                "customId": 10250
              },
              "name": "Support Request Message (IssueType:Bug)",
              "operations": [
                "set"
              ]
            }

Extract all of your customfields by name then cache their keys so you don't have to look them up on every issue creation.

You can play with the API here: https://jira.atlassian.com/plugins/servlet/restbrowser#/com-atlassian-jira-rest-jira-rest-filter

Ben Arent · Answer

Can I please get update for my last question?
thank you