When adding a watcher through the api, how am I supposed to pass in the accountid?

Question

addWatcher = invokeurl

[

url :"https://atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue/issueId/watchers"

type :POST

parameters:"accountId"

headers:headers

];

I pass in the variables and include my org url, when I run the code with an account id nothing happens, how is that accountId supposed to be passed in? Can someone share the exact code of the body.

Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM · Answer

just the string

Dylan Shukster · Answer

Request bodyapplication/json

The account ID of the user. Note that username cannot be used due to privacy changes.

string

This is what it says to pass in, does not specify the variable so I want to confirm if I am passing it in correctly in my code. Like this parameters:"accountId" or if I need to pass it in as an object like  "accountId": { "id": "5b109f2e9729b51b54dc274d" }?

Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM · Answer

Hi @Dylan Shukster

You pass the user by account ID as you are trying to do.

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

The examples aren't great but they are expecting the account ID as the string in "<string>"