How to update custom-field with string value?

Alexandr Turovskyi

Field definition from /rest/api/2/issue/{issue}/editmeta

"customfield_10859":{
 "required":false,
 "schema":{
 "type":"string",
 "custom":"com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.customfieldtypes:textfield",
 "customId":10859
 },
 "name":"TS Commit",
 "key":"customfield_10859",
 "operations":[
 "set"
 ]
}

if i use request data like this, jira returns bad request error.

{
 "fields": {
 "customfield_10859": "test"
 }
}

 with request data

{
 "fields": {
 "customfield_10859": {"value":"test"}
 }
}

field updates with value

 

how to put to field string value? what json should i send to api ?

Phil_Dimeski

Hey Alexandr,

What does your request look like? Your first example should work with the v2 API. Although updating a customfield using their v3 API does not seem to work. 

Also what is the error message returned?