How do I log work for a user via the Jira Cloud REST API?

Benjamin Sutton

I'm trying to use the REST api in a laravel app, to add worklogs to an issue on my company's Jira Cloud instance.

Whenever I sent the request it gives me an error, "Can not instantiate value of type [simple type, class com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.rest.json.beans.WorklogJsonBean] from JSON String; no single-String constructor/factory method"

I'm sending the post request to https:my-server.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/ISSUE_ID/worklog with this JSON:

{
    "update":{
        "worklog":{
            "add":{
                "timeSpentSeconds":7200,
                "comment":"Testing pushing worklog using REST API",
                "started":"2017-08-15T14:00:00+00:00"
                }
        }
    }
}

I've also tried sending just:

{
    "timeSpentSeconds":7200,
    "comment":"Testing pushing worklog using REST API",
    "started":"2017-08-15T14:00:00+00:00"
}
 

Can anyone spot what I'm doing wrong?

somethingblue

Hi Benjamin,

Here is the example from the Cloud API documentation for updating a worklog:

{
    "<span class="hljs-attribute">comment</span>": <span class="hljs-value"><span class="hljs-string">"I did some work here."</span></span>,
    "<span class="hljs-attribute">visibility</span>": <span class="hljs-value">{
        "<span class="hljs-attribute">type</span>": <span class="hljs-string">"group"</span>,
        "<span class="hljs-attribute">value</span>": <span class="hljs-string">"jira-developers"</span>
    }</span>,
    "<span class="hljs-attribute">started</span>": <span class="hljs-value"><span class="hljs-string">"2017-08-15T06:53:06.605+0000"</span></span>,
    "<span class="hljs-attribute">timeSpentSeconds</span>": <span class="hljs-value"><span class="hljs-number">12000</span>
</span>}

The format you would use for the call is

PUT /rest/api/2/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/worklog/{id}

Try that format and see if you get different results.

Cheers,

Branden