Multiline comment on pull request via API 2.0

[Chris Smith]

I am trying to post a comment that includes newlines to a pull request using https://developer.atlassian.com/bitbucket/api/2/reference/resource/repositories/%7Busername%7D/%7Brepo_slug%7D/pullrequests/%7Bpull_request_id%7D/comments 

My request body looks like this: 

{"content":{"raw":"Report\nTotal Files Examined: 20\nLooks Good!"}}

I would expect the UI comment to look like this:

Report
Total Files Examined: 20
Looks Good!

The request is accepted, but the output in the pull request looks like this:

Report Total Files Examined: 20 Looks Good!

If I open the HTML of the PR page, I see the following:

<p>Report
Total Files Examined: 20 
Looks Good!</p>

I believe what is happening is that the raw content is always being pasted into the <p> tags, but what *should* happen is every newline is converted into a new <p> tag. 

I have also tried using \\n and <br>, \\n turns into this in the UI

Report\nTotal Files Examined: 20\nLooks Good!

and <br> turns into this:

Report<br>Total Files Examined: 20<br>Looks Good!

Is there any way around this? I need to UI to respect the line breaks somehow.

[Chris Smith · Accepted solution]

I discovered I can send using markdown and am using " \n" (space and newline) to make line breaks, this creates the multilines as I want.

###Report \nTotal Files Examined: 20 \nLooks Good!

 becomes

REPORT

Total Files Examined: 20
Looks Good!

[Charles Hudak]

How did you get this to work? I'm trying to send markdown and it's not working. I tried specifying that it is markup and this results in an error:

test.sh "This is a test\nthis is only a test\n\`here is some code\`"

{"content":{"raw":"This is a test\nthis is only a test\n`here is some code`","markup":"markdown"}}

{"type": "error", "error": {"fields": {"content.markup": "extra keys not allowed"}, "message": "Bad request"}}

[Chris Smith]

@Charles Hudak The API docs seem to be incorrect (though they're correct for the UI API).

I sent as raw without a markup parameter and as I said above with a space character before the newline.

So in your case: 

{"content":{"raw":"This is a test\nthis is only a test\n`here is some code`","markup":"markdown"}}

becomes

{"content":{"raw":"This is a test \nthis is only a test \n`here is some code`"}}

That should work

[Charles Hudak]

I tried that (space before newline) and it didn't make a difference.

[Chris Smith]

the "extra keys" is due to the markup parameter. In my example I am also removing it. Did you do that too?

[Charles Hudak]

Yep...the comment posted but there were no line breaks...just run on text.

[Jose Elizondo]

@Charles Hudak any luck with that multiline text? I've tried without success, I do send text as markup and it's rendered as markup but no line breaks (API 2.0).

-d '{"content":{"raw":"**Result** \nDeployed."}}'

[Mihnea GALCA]

-d '{"content":{"raw":"**Result** \n  \nDeployed."}}'

New-line is created by \n##\n where # is space

[Anton Plebanovich]

Two spaces worked for me, thanks!

[Eduard Mutin]

Unfortunately, two spaces didn't work for me but \n\r works:

curl --request POST --header 'Content-Type:application/json' -d '{"content":{"raw": "line 1\n\rline 2"}}' https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/$BITBUCKET_WORKSPACE/$BITBUCKET_REPO_SLUG/pullrequests/$BITBUCKET_PR_ID/comments?access_token=$ACCESS_TOKEN