How to find actor details in jira environment?

Question

Hi All, I have to update issue status using jira rest services below request payload. { "update": { "comment": [ { "add": { "body": "Bug has been fixed." } } ] }, "fields": { "assignee": { "name": "bob" }, "resolution": { "name": "Fixed" } }, "transition": { "id": "5" }, "historyMetadata": { "type": "myplugin:type", "description": "text description", "descriptionKey": "plugin.changereason.i18.key", "activityDescription": "text description", "activityDescriptionKey": "plugin.activity.i18.key", "actor": { "id": "tony", "displayName": "Tony", "type": "mysystem-user", "avatarUrl": "http://mysystem/avatar/tony.jpg", "url": "http://mysystem/users/tony" }, "generator": { "id": "mysystem-1", "type": "mysystem-application" }, "cause": { "id": "myevent", "type": "mysystem-event" }, "extraData": { "keyvalue": "extra data", "goes": "here" } }} In actor tag i have to provide details for actor.how to find actor details in my jira system. Could you please help. I have one more quick question what is generator ,cause,extraData details in above request payload.

Tarun Sapra · Answer

Hello @Nageswara Rao Koppisetti

As @Alexey Matveev shared in his response , you can only submit the fields which are part of the transition screen for a particular transition. In your case the transition id is 3 and for this transition you have to check if the transition screen exists and if it doesn't then you should not enter the field values. From the docs

If a field is not configured to appear on the transition screen, then it will not be in the transition metadata, and a field validation error will occur if it is submitted.

Alexey Matveev · Answer

You can pass only those fields, which are present on the screen, which you defined for the transaction. I guess, your transaction does not have any screen. That is why omit the fields.

Nageswara Rao Koppisetti · Answer

I got  transition id .I am getting below error.

Could you please help me on this.

And provide me any simplified request payload for json.

{
"errorMessages": [],
"errors": {
"resolution": "Field 'resolution' cannot be set. It is not on the appropriate screen, or unknown.",
"assignee": "Field 'assignee' cannot be set. It is not on the appropriate screen, or unknown."
}
}