Keep getting 405 when trying to post an issue

Question

I am working on an in house automation and want to post issues in Jira.

I am using Python and can correctly call using the GET methods, but keep receiving a 405 status when trying to use the POST method for

"http://{baseurl}/rest/api/2/issue"

(the base URL is set to a variable and has been used to grab issues so it is correct)

The code I have written is below

[baseurl,jira_headers,auth] = Jira_Auth() 
print(baseurl,jira_headers,auth) 
url = f"http://{baseurl}/rest/api/2/issue" 
jira_headers =  {"Accept": "application/json", "Content-Type": "application/json"}

summary = "This is a test summary" 
need = "This is a test need" 
why = "This is a test why"

body={ "fields":
 { "project": { 
"key": "XXX" }, 
"summary": summary, 
"description": need, 
"acceptancecriteria": why,
 "issuetype": { 
"name": "Story" }
 } 
}
bodys = json.dumps(body)
response = R.post(url,headers = jira_headers,auth=auth,data = body)
 print(response.status_code)

I appreciate any insight; Thank you!

Tuncay Senturk _Snapbytes_ · Answer

Hi,

This field is invalid in your payload.

"acceptancecriteria": why,

There is no such standard field in Jira. Remove that line and try again please!

Anna Woodard · Answer

I have updated the code and now get a 400 response (I also added the s to "http" in the URL as other posts have suggested)

import requests as R
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
from jira_auth import Jira_Auth
from Jama_Auth_Headers import Jama_Auth
import json

[baseurl,jira_headers,auth] = Jira_Auth()
print(baseurl,jira_headers,auth)
url = f"https://{baseurl}/rest/api/2/issue" ## added the 's' on 'http'
jira_headers = {"Accept": "application/json",
"Content-Type": "application/json"}

summary = "This is a test summary"
need = "This is a test need"
why = "This is a test why"

body={
"fields": {
"project":
{
"key": "JPR"
},
"summary": summary,
"description": need,
"acceptancecriteria": why,
"issuetype": {
"name": "Story"
}

}
}

response = R.post(url,headers = jira_headers,auth=auth,json = body) #used 'json' and 'body'
print(response.status_code)

Tuncay Senturk _Snapbytes_ · Answer

Hi @Anna Woodard

405 Method Not Allowed error that you're getting means the server does not accept the HTTP method you use, which is POST in your case. You are using data = body when making the POST request but you must pass the json = bodys correctly. Right now, you're just passing a raw dictionary instead of JSON string. You already created bodys but you did not use it, you're passing data =body.

In my opinion,

removing the line below

bodys = json.dumps(body)

I guess this will work

body = {...} // your body
response = R.post(url, headers=jira_headers, auth=auth, json=body)