Creating Sub task of an issue using REST API.

[asas asdsd]

Hi,

I'm trying to make an issue and using parent id in it to make the new issue as a child of the previously created

issue.This is the JSON string i'm using.

{"fields":{"parent":{"id":"10420"},"project":{"id":"10300"},"summary":"a test sub-task of my first issue","issuetype":{"id":"3"},"description":"description"}}

The output coming is :-Failed : HTTP error code : 400

Can somebody tell me the possible mistake i'm making.

thanks

[Dieter · Accepted solution]

The JSON you specified is almost correct, you just need to specify the sub-task issue type (5), not the task issue type (3)

So the following should work:

{"fields":
   {"parent":{"id":"10420"},
   "project":{"id":"10300"},
   "summary":"a test sub-task of my first issue",
   "issuetype":{"id":"5"},
   "description":"description"}
}

[Taleev.Aalam@mindtree.com]

why specifically issuetype id is 5 here??

[G V Shabareesh]

when i am giving the issue type as 5 and it is saying that issue type is mismatched give the correct one... issue type : 'name':'task' or 'sub-task'.

please help me friends.

[Dario B]

@G V Shabareesh  open below page and search for the example: "Creating a sub-task"

• https://developer.atlassian.com/server/jira/platform/jira-rest-api-examples/#creating-an-issue-examples

[Chidambaram C]

Is it possible to change the parent of subtask?

[MattS]

https://developer.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/JIRA+REST+API+Example+-+Create+Issue#JIRARESTAPIExample-CreateIssue-Exampleofcreatingasub-task

says that you have to use the issue key in the parent dictionary. And indeed the id did not work for me, but the issue key did work. Sub-issues are currently added to the end of the list of existing sub-issues.

[Kavian Moradhassel]

Actually, an ID will work as well, but you have to quote it as a string.

[Renjith Pillai]

Isn't the parent has to be the parent the issue key?