Is there a limit to the string size that can be sent in a custom data body?

Question

I am working on a Jira automation for when an event is triggered for a work item, a POST request will be sent to Github that will start a workflow to create an Github Issue from the work item. I am finding however that when an I try to send a description that is more than a couple sentences, the request fails:

I even tried using some of the advanced formatting options as well and it did not seem to work. Was hoping to get some feedback on this.

Bill Sheboy · Answer

Hi @Michael Olabintan

I suspect this may be an encoding problem rather than a message length one.  Please try adding the jsonEncode or asJsonString functions to any smart values which could have markup: summary, description, etc.

* https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-smart-values-text-fields/#jsonEncode--
* https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/jira-smart-values-json-functions/#asJsonString

Kind regards,
Bill