How to allow Jira add-on to create issue on behalf of user

vitaliikobrin

I'm trying to implement Jira add-on with an ability to create issues on behalf of user.

I've created add-on and followed the all steps of User impersonation for Connect apps tutorial.

I've also implemented webhook to handle 'installed' callback from add-on like described here. So, when a user installs the add-on the webhook will receive the following object:

{
  'key': 'com.example.myapp', 
  'clientKey': '<client key>', 
  'oauthClientId': '<OAuth client ID>', 
  'publicKey': '<public key>', 
  'sharedSecret': '<shared secret>', 
  'serverVersion': '100095', 
  'pluginsVersion': '1.250.0', 
  'baseUrl': 'https://<user's domain>.atlassian.net', 
  'productType': 'jira', 
  'description': 'Description', 
  'eventType': 'installed'
}

After that I generate JWT like described in the tutorial signed with the shared secret. 

So, my JWT payload includes the following claims:

{
  'iss': 'urn:atlassian:connect:clientid:<OAuth client ID>',
  'sub': 'urn:atlassian:connect:useraccountid:<client key>',
  'tnt': 'https://<user's domain>.atlassian.net',
  'iss': '<created at>',
  'exp': '<created at + 1 minute>'
}

The next step I performed is access token generation using 'https://auth.atlassian.io/oauth2/token' endpoint and the following parameters:

grant_type=urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:jwt-bearer&assertion=<my JWT>&scope=ACT_AS_USER READ WRITE

Here everything is ok, an access token generated successfully. But, when I'm trying to create an issue using Authorization: Bearer <access_token> header ('https://<user's domain>.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/')  the server responds with:

{
 "error": "Add-on 'com.example.myapp' disallowed to impersonate the user because 'no valid active user exists'"
}

What I've noticed is that account ID in installed callback object has 'xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx' format. But when I open my account in Jira (account in witch the add-on is installed) I see that the account ID in URL has 'YYYYYY:xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx' format. I changed the subject in my JWT payload to make it look like this:

'sub': 'urn:atlassian:connect:useraccountid:'YYYYYY:xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx',

and generated a new access token using this JWT. I've used new access token to create an issue and it was successful, the reporter of the issue is a user installed my add-on, just like I wished.

The question is: where can I find that YYYYYY part for my add-on? Maybe I missed some little step from the tutorial. Any help will be appreciated. 

Thank you.

vitaliikobrin

One missed detail in my question is add-on descriptor. So, I used the following one:

{
"name": "Hello World",
 "description": "Atlassian Connect app",
 "key": "com.example.myapp",
 "baseUrl": "https://url.ngrok.io",
 "vendor": {
"name": "Example, Inc.",
     "url": "http://example.com"
 },
 "authentication": {
"type": "jwt"
 },
 "scopes": [
"act_as_user",
    "read",
    "write",
 ],
 "lifecycle": {
"installed": "/api/created",
 },
 "apiVersion": 1
}