How to use the jira rest API to update the issue's sprint

Question

I am usinf jira 6.4.x and have successfully created an app that uses the jira rest API to create issues, and to update various fields. I am having issues setting the Sprint though. It is a custom field, and via the rest/api/2/issue/xxx-nnnn/editmeta, the field has this format: "customfield_11004": { "required":false, "schema": { "type":"array", "items":"string", "custom":"com.pyxis.greenhopper.jira:gh-sprint", "customId":11004 }, "name":"Sprint", "operations":["set"] } And when I pull the sprint data using a GET, the sprint is defined as: "customfield_11004": [ "com.atlassian.greenhopper.service.sprint.Sprint@20de96ed[rapidViewId=38,state=FUTURE,name=Sprint 19,startDate=,endDate=,completeDate=,sequence=174,id=174]" ] So... trying to do a PUT to set the sprint, and am lost. I tried the following: { "update": { "customfield_11004": [ { "rapidViewId": 38, "state": "ACTIVE", "name": "Sprint 18", "completeDate": null, "sequence": 173, "id":"173" }] } } But that give me an error: { "errorMessages": [ "Field with id' customfield_11004' and name 'Sprint' does not support operation 'id' Supported operation(s) are: 'set'" ], "errors": {} } I tried a "set using the following: { "update": { "customfield_11004": [ {"set" : {"rapidViewId": 38}}, {"set" : {"state": "ACTIVE"}}, {"set" : {"name": "Sprint 18"}}, {"set" : {"completeDate": null}}, {"set" : {"sequence": 173}}, {"set" : {"id": 173}}] } } but I get an internal server error { "errorMessages": [ "Internal server error" ], "errors": {} } What I really want to do is set just the id that is 173 in the example above.. Any ideas? TIA

tony picarello · Answer

Sure... the base_url is:

https://example.com/jira/rest/api/2/

FYI... for creating issues, I can successfully use:

https://example.com/jira/rest/api/2/issue

Anyway, using postman for my testing, input is :

- Content-Type is application/json

- "Authorization" is "Basic"

- POST method

- message body contains just the following:

{"issues": ["TLS-2965"]}

- Postman has some options for data input... like raw, x-www-form-uelencoded, binary, form-data... so I am using raw

url:  base_url/sprint/173/issue

I cannot post header contents of the response... page flags something as inappropriate.

Steven F Behnke · Answer

Can you provide your jira base url (replace your domain with 'example'), exact input, and exact output from both the endpoints you're trying to use?

tony picarello · Answer

Thanks for replying. I appreciate it. I tried your suggestion... did not work. I am using PostMan plugin to Chrome... anyway, my json is: { "issues": ["xxx-nnnn"]} I needed the quotes on the issue id. I used rest address (I did a POST): /jira/rest/api/2/sprint/173/issue response:

404

null for uri: https://eadget-devtools.external.lmco.com/jira/rest/api/2/sprint/173/issue I know I have permission to view the sprint, and the sprint is active. This is crazy :) It is like the API does not support sprint resource... because if I use address /jira/rest/api/2/yadayada/173/issue, I get the same 404 error.