[Solved] POST JQL search to rest API

[tjarles]

I'm trying to search through the JIRA REST API through angularjs. GET works fine:

$http({
    method: "GET",
    url: 'http://test-url/rest/api/2/search?jql=' +
    'reporter=reporter01' +
    '&project=project02'
}).then(function successCallback(response) {
    return response.data;
}, function errorCallback() {
    console.log("Error calling API")
});

But POST does not:

$http({
    method: "POST",
    url: 'http://test-url/rest/api/2/search',
    data: JSON.stringify({
        jql: {
            reporter: "reporter01",
            project: "project02",
            maxResults: 20,
        }
    })
}).then(function successCallback(response) {
    return response.data;
}, function errorCallback() {
    console.log("Error calling API")
});

Which returns Error 400 with the message:

"Can not deserialize instance of java.lang.String out of START_OBJECT token
 at [Source: org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteInputStream@245c4092; line: 1, column: 2] (through reference chain: com.atlassian.jira.rest.v2.search.SearchRequestBean["jql"])"

Can anyone see what the problem is?

[Petar Petrov (Appfire)]

The problem is that your data is from-encoded and not sent as JSON. You need to add:

headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/json'}

[tjarles]

Thanks for the reply! Unfortunately I still have the same error message with this code:

$http({
    method: "POST",
    url: 'http://test-url/rest/api/2/search',
	headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
    data: JSON.stringify({
        jql: {
            reporter: "reporter01",
            project: "project02",
            maxResults: 20,
        }
    })
}).then(function successCallback(response) {
    return response.data;
}, function errorCallback() {
    console.log("Error calling API")
});

[Petar Petrov (Appfire)]

Can you post the full headers and body of the request, as retrieved from your browser's developer tools.

[tjarles]

I assume you mean these two (they are from the browser):

Header: http://odart-test.arrisi.com:8080/rest/api/2/search

Body: {jql: {reporter: "app-kbs-jira01", project: "KREATV", maxResults: 20}}

[Petar Petrov (Appfire)]

Which browser are you using? There should be something which shows all the headers in the request.

[tjarles]

Haha. Project should just be a single string and is the value of jql and reporter is apparently not a field: 

{jql: "project = KREATV", maxResults: 20}}

That took the entire forenoon.

[tjarles]

Chrome. I just took the fields I thought was relevant.

[Petar Petrov (Appfire)]

So does it work now?

[tjarles]

Yes! 

[Petar Petrov (Appfire)]

Cool! Actually I overlooked the second part of the error message, which pointed to the cause: com.atlassian.jira.rest.v2.search.SearchRequestBean["jql"]) - a string is expected, while an object is received.