How to create a Epic and a Story using JIRA REST Json

[Egbert Jansen]

Hi,

We are using JIRA REST to add issues, stories and epics to JIRA.

I'am able to add Issues to JIRA, but not stories and epics.

String for creating issues is:
"{\"fields\": {\"project\":{ \"key\": \"TEST\" }, \"summary\": \"REST 01.\", \"description\": \"Creating of an issue\", \"issuetype\": { \"name\": \"Bug\"} } }"

Who has some examples for creating stories and epics? 

Thanks,
Egbert 

[Egbert Jansen · Accepted solution]

Hi guys, thanks for the answers.

I've used the following json strings and they work fine for me:

Create a Story:
{"fields":{"project":{"key": "TEST"},"summary": "Story01","description": "Create a Story via REST","issuetype": {"name": "Story"}}} 

Create an Epic:
{"fields":{"project":{"key": "TEST"},"customfield_10401": "Epic Name 01","summary": "REST EXAMPLE1","description": "Creating an Epic via REST","issuetype": {"name": "Epic"}}}

customfield_10401 can be different on another JIRA installation.

[G Mani]

Hi Egbert ,

""" Create an Epic:
{"fields":{"project":{"key": "TEST"},"customfield_10401": "Epic Name 01","summary": "REST EXAMPLE1","description": "Creating an Epic via REST","issuetype": {"name": "Epic"}}}"""

Nice of Creating an epic but i have a doubt that i need to create a story to which epic i have created in epic with epic link.

epic link is required to create a story in which we have created the epic.

Thank u.

please rly fast...

[AhmadElkenany]

Is the (customfield_10401) static ? 

[I]

I created an issue and linked to the right epic by following below query

dataToPost='{"fields": {"project": {"key": "WDP1234"}, "summary":"REST ye merry gentlemen.", "description":"Creating of an issue using project keys and issue type names u", "issuetype":{"name": "Task"}, "customfield_10001": "WDPUIQC-1"}}'

## customfield_10001 is my epic id
## printf '%s\n' "$dataToPost"

issue=$(curl -D- -kv -u charlie:charlie \
           -X POST -H "X-Atlassian-Token: nocheck" --data "$dataToPost" \
           -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
           https://jira.hostname.com.au/rest/api/2/issue/
)

echo "$issue"

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Best guess is that you don't have "bug" or "story" as issue types in the target project.  Check the issue type scheme.

[Volodymyr Krupach]

Hi Egbert,

Please try to pass id of issuetype:

"issuetype": {
            "id": "10000"
        },

you can get full list of available issuetypes via /rest/api/2/issuetype