Creating issue in JIRA REST API?

Shane Corley March 31, 2016

I installed cURL and I'm trying to create a JIRA issue from the command line but the curl code that Atlassian uses as an example isn't working for me. Atlassian says to use this url in the curl code: " http://localhost:8090/rest/api/2/issue/"

I tried replacing "localhost:8090" with my companies JIRA domain and it still didn't work. Do I have to use "localhost:8090" and try it from the command line on my JIRA server?? I'm just confused how this is working. Thanks!

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
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March 31, 2016

You have done the right thing, if your JIRA is running on http://mycompany.com/jira then you'd replace localhost:8090 with mycompany.com/jira

So, the question is what you mean by "isn't working".  What is the error message and what are you actually sending?

Shane Corley March 31, 2016

Hey,


This is the curl I'm inputting:
curl -k -D- -u fred:fred -X POST --data {"fields": {"project": ITAM{ "key": "TEST" }, "summary": "REST ye merry gentlemen.", "description": "Creating of an issue using project keys and issue type names using the REST API", "issuetype": { "name": "App:Unknown"}}} -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://jira.mycompany.com/rest/api/2/issue/


I got this straight from Atlassian here: https://developer.atlassian.com/jiradev/jira-apis/jira-rest-apis/jira-rest-api-tutorials/jira-rest-api-example-create-issue

 

jira.mycompany.com is how we access jira.


error messages:
Could not resolve host: key
Could not resolve host: RESTT ye merry gentlemen
Could not..... and so on


Thanks for the help

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
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March 31, 2016

Ok, there's a couple of issues:

  1. the first couple of fields look wrong - the examples say "project key Test", but you've got "project ITAM { key test }"
  2. I think your error message is telling you that you are using "" on the command line and then inside the data you are sending as well - that can't work because a " is ending the data and the next part of the data is being taken as the next command for curl.  Try surrounding the data segment with ' marks to separate them out.

 

 

Shane Corley March 31, 2016

Oh that was a silly mistake with the project.. I switched "Test" to ITAM and took away the other ITAM. I also tried the ' marks but I'm getting the same error. When I try to access jira.mycompany.com/rest/api/2/issue/ in my browser I get an HTTP status 405 error "Method Not Allowed" and I should be getting some JSON. I feel like that might be the reason I'm getting the command line error. Thoughts?

Shane Corley March 31, 2016

Also, what's the "fred:fred" in the curl?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
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March 31, 2016

fred:fred is the username and password you want to perform the action as.

I've always found quotes annoying, and most of my REST stuff dodges it.  Put the JSON in a plaintext file (lets call it MyRestJson.txt), then instead of having to think about quotes etc, you can just go "curl ... --data @MyRestJson.txt ..." and it'll read the raw content from the file.

Shane Corley April 4, 2016

okay I took your advice and put everything in a file. That got rid of the of the could not resolve host and the other errors.. but I'm still getting an http 302 error. This is a redirect error.. would you happen to know anything about this?? Thanks for your help so far

Shane Corley April 4, 2016

okay I finally got it to work! thanks for your help!!

 

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
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April 4, 2016

Oh, redirect errors - so close smile

avinashreddey October 7, 2019

Hi Shane, I am getting the same error as yours (302). How did you get it to work?

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