JIRA REST update assignee - Tomcat HTTP 405 - Method Not Allowed

[Jacques]

Hi,

I'm trying to assign an assignee to an existing JIRA issue with the following command:

curl -D- -u admin:admin -X POST --data C:\CURL\tests\assignuser.txt -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://jira.something.com/rest/api/2/issue/CRIE-30

The content of the assignuser.txt is the following:

{   "fields": {
       "assignee":{"name":"existingusername"}
   }
}

When executing this command line I get the following HTML response::

The admin user has full access to the issue which is in a "in progress" state and permits editing.

Anyone has any suggestion what I'm doing wrong?

[ConradR]

For basic auth you have to use the following header with "username:password" base64 encoded:

-H "Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4="

https://developer.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/JIRA+REST+API+Example+-+Basic+Authentication

[Jacques]

Hi Conrad,

Not sure what authentication has to do with it. If I change username and/or password I will get a security notice that credentials are not valid. The issue above uses valid credentials.

Sure the article you mention states "If you need to you may construct..." but I have no need for Basic Auth headers since we're using it in a very secure environment.

[ConradR]

Hi Jacques,

sorry, I just noticed you have a 405 and not a 403. In your case the problem is that this method doesn't exist for POST. You have to repeat the same request as PUT.

http://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/latest/#id224441