Jira attach file to issue with PHP and CURL

Justin Lyson

I have found several examples on how to upload an attachment to an issue in jira, however I have not been able to make any of them work. I posted this question on the Jira Community Help Forums but it has been over a week with 0 replies so hoping the community here can help.

Here is my current attempt:

 $Jirausername = 'myUsername';    $Jirapassword = 'myPassword';    $ch=curl_init();$headers = array(
    'X-Atlassian-Token: nocheck',
    'Content-Type: multipart/form-data'
);$data = array('file' => "testing.txt");
curl_setopt_array(    $ch,    array(        CURLOPT_URL=>'https://myCompany.net/rest/api/latest/issue/TAG-78/attachments',        CURLOPT_POST=>true,        CURLOPT_VERBOSE=>1,        CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS=>$data,        CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST=> 0,        CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER=> 0,        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER=>true,        CURLOPT_HEADER=>false,        CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER=> $headers,        CURLOPT_USERPWD=>"$Jirausername:$Jirapassword"
    )
);$result=curl_exec($ch);$ch_error = curl_error($ch);
if ($ch_error) {    echo "cURL Error: $ch_error";
} else {    var_dump($result);
}curl_close($ch);

testing.txt is in the same directory as this file. I have curl installed on the webserver where this is hosted, can create issues in jira fine, just cant seem to upload attahcments...

When I run this page it displays:

string(0) "" 

No attachment is uploaded as well needless to say. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

EDIT: here are some things I have tried:

1. trying both nocheck and no-check
2. trying both @testing.txt and testing.txt
3. removing 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data'
4. Full paths as such: $data = array('file'=>"@C:\xampp\htdocs\Website\testing.txt ,'filename'=>'testing.txt');
5. Tried like this too because of a known curl error: $data = array('file'=>"@C:\xampp\htdocs\Website\testing.txt" ';filename=testing.txt');

And every combination of those above. No matter what I try it does not work though. Have also ensured I am an admin level user in Jira. I feel like my code should work... but clearly not.

RianS

Looks like you haven't loaded the file's data into the postbody to send with the web request. Here's a link to a PHP file for a REST request using curl that handles a file attachment. Look at the buildpostbody function.

Part of the attachment process is loading the file content and adding it to the postbody as a string. It also provides the correct Content identifier as well based on the file contents. Just providing the filename to the curl function isn't sufficient.