How to use JQuery AJAX in Confluence to POST a new issue to Jira

[Steve Richards]

Hi,

I followed the excellent answer in https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/209914/how-to-use-jquery-in-confluence-to-run-a-jira-rest-query-without-hard-coding-username-password-in-plain-text to add JQuery AJAX into Confluence to retrieve issues from Jira using the REST API. The AJAX type is GET.

I now want to use the same method to add new issues to Jira using the AJAX type POST but am not able to. I am constantly getting an HTTP error code 400 returned.

I have validated the JSON data I am sending in the request using a REST Client in Firefox.

Can anyone help???

Many Thanks.

Steve

[Aleksander Mierzwicki]

Could give some more details than error code? Can you please view your XHR request in firebug or chrome dev tools and provide information how does the request and response (including response body where should be detailed error message) to us? Without this it will be hard to guess what is going on.

but another question would be how does Atlassian handle this as the basic Jira Issues macro can create a Jira issue from Confluence, and I assume this uses the Application Link?

I didn't look into the code but most probably Confluence is doing server-side request to JIRA using application link. The ajax request goes from browser to Confluence, confluece asks JIRA for issues and then Confluence server sends response to browser - so Same Origin Policy is not an issue in such scenario.

[Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]]

You maybe facing a problem caused by the same-origin policy. I'm not sure if you can handle a XMLHttpRequest between two servers in your case that easy, maybe this link helps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-origin_policy

[Steve Richards]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the post. My Confluence and Jira install is on the same server (development) and because I am using the Confluence Application Link to the Jira instance that all would be ok.

I will take a look at Same Origin Policy details but another question would be how does Atlassian handle this as the basic Jira Issues macro can create a Jira issue from Confluence, and I assume this uses the Application Link?

Steve