troubles logging work with jira rest api

[kajstewart]

i'm attempting to log work via the api and powershell

making data with:

$datablob = @{timespent="1h 30m";timeSpentSeconds="5400";comment="logging via powershell";started="2013-09-16T11:29:49.743-0700"} | ConvertTo-Json

which generates:

{
"timeSpentSeconds": "5400",
"timespent": "1h 30m",
"started": "2013-09-01T10:30:18.932+0530",
"comment": "logging via powershell"
}

then calling

$result = Invoke-RestMethod -Method POST -Headers $header -Uri http://myjira.company.com/rest/api/2/issue/ISSUE-238/worklog -ContentType application/json -Body $datablob

i keep getting back 400 Bad Request errors.

Anyone see where i've gone wrong?

[kajstewart · Accepted solution]

Figured it out. So painful.

I had the capitalization wrong on timeSpent, also timeSpentSeconds isn't needed

correct json block:

{
"timeSpent": "1h 30m",
"started": "2013-09-01T10:30:18.932+0530",
"comment": "logging via powershell"
}

[Divanshu Sabharwal]

Can you please post the complete request you were able to create, alongwith the json..The documentations and posts are making me wandering here and there..

[Timothy]

400 means

• Returned if the input is invalid (e.g. missing required fields, invalid values, and so forth).

Have you tried to follow the exact POST body here (https://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/latest/#idp2062512)?

[kajstewart]

I haven't yet tried the full JSON body as I understood it wasn't all required, maybe that's wrong.

I'll give it a try but i'm not sure how to know what to set for the self and id elements.