Update custom field using jira-python

Chris Kast

We're in the process of migrating from Bugzilla to JIRA. In our Bugzilla instance, we have a custom drop-down field that lists a bunch of versions. That gets imported fine but as a JIRA custom drop-down. What I'd like to do, for each issue, is that the value of custom drop-down and put it in a new "version picker" custom field. I'm trying to use the jira-python client to do this but running into problem. See the code below. it doesn't error out when I do this but it's not updating the new version picker field. Any thoughts?

jira = JIRA({'server': DEFAULT_JIRA_SERVER}, basic_auth=(DEFAULT_JIRA_USER, DEFAULT_JIRA_PASS))

issues_to_mod = jira.search_issues('filter=filter_alerts', maxResults=200)

print 'Will update', str(len(issues_to_mod)), 'issues.'

for issue in issues_to_mod:
	old_fixed_version = issue.fields.customfield_10105
	old_fixed_version_string = str(old_fixed_version[0])
	print 'Updating issue', issue, 'with value', old_fixed_version_string
	issue.update(fields={'customfield_10400': {'value': old_fixed_version_string}})

Chris Kast

Huzzah!! My original code sample was correct except for one word: "value" needed to be replaced with "name". So the correct code is:

jira = JIRA({'server': DEFAULT_JIRA_SERVER}, basic_auth=(DEFAULT_JIRA_USER, DEFAULT_JIRA_PASS))
 
issues_to_mod = jira.search_issues('filter=filter_alerts', maxResults=200)
 
print 'Will update', str(len(issues_to_mod)), 'issues.'
 
for issue in issues_to_mod:
    old_fixed_version = issue.fields.customfield_10105
    old_fixed_version_string = str(old_fixed_version[0])
    print 'Updating issue', issue, 'with value', old_fixed_version_string
    issue.update(fields={'customfield_10400': {'name': old_fixed_version_string}})

For those who care, I figured it out by looking at the REST examples here. Each custom field type has a specific data structure. In the case of version-picker fields, the value can be referenced by either the version "name" or "id".