Create subtask for Jira ticket based on Issue name or description using REST API-SOLVED

[Dragan Vucanovic]

Hello, i'm new to Jira.

Is it possible to create following scenario:

For JIRA ticket created with subject:Check o365 license

- description: No spare licenses unused.

- create sub tasks for the parent ticket using REST API,

I managed to find a code for adding a comment to ticket by TICKET ID, is it possible to search by subject or description

curl -D- -dvucanovic:pass -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{ "body": "Test comment" }' https://jira.corp.hentsu.com/rest/api/2/issue/TECH-513/comment

[Dragan Vucanovic · Accepted solution]

Uh !, you were right Laurens, i wasted whole day on this, Atlassian  documentation needs serious update for JIRA Service Desk 3.4.had to add customfield_10107,what's that  ??

Is this new feature ?

anyway, i just created post if anyone needs this:

https://geekdudes.wordpress.com/2018/02/23/create-jira-subtask-using-rest-api/

[Laurens Coppens]

Glad i could help!

[Laurens Coppens]

I would advise to use the automation plugin to do this, instead of rest api.

[Dragan Vucanovic]

Thanks, but i'm asked to do it using REST API,

[Laurens Coppens]

Dragan,

Then i think this is what you need: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Answers-Developer-Questions/How-to-Create-Subtask-using-Rest-API/qaq-p/508166

The code to create a subtask.

But you will need to find a way to call the script to create the subtask based on the subject.

Thats why i think automation is better, you can just add an event "issue created" where subject contains "Check license" then create sub task.

[Dragan Vucanovic]

Thanks a lot Laurens !, can you point me to links or examples for automation plugins, i'm totally noob for this :)

[Laurens Coppens]

Dragan,

This is the one you need: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.codebarrel.addons.automation/cloud/overview

[Dragan Vucanovic]

I see it's chargable, now i know why i'm asked to find free solution :)

I'm still searching for REST API option.

Thanks !

[Laurens Coppens]

Dragan,

Scripting (hour cost) is also quite expensive :-)

So unless you got a high user count, i think it will still be the cheapest option.

But in case you still want rest api is suggest you to check out the first link.

Content:

{
    "fields":
    {
        "project":
        {
            "key": "TEST"
        },
        "parent":
        {
            "key": "TEST-1"
        },
        "summary": "Sub-task of TEST-1",
        "description": "Don't forget to do this too.",
        "issuetype":
        {
            "id": "5"
        }
    }
}

And then you just need to find the parent key based on a search for description and put in in the rest api call.

[Laurens Coppens]

If you use cloud and <300 rule executions you can use the free version of automation: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.codebarrel.addons.automation.lite/cloud/overview

[Dragan Vucanovic]

Thanks again, meanwhile i found values for Issue subject and comment:

description and summary, but when composing a query for Technology and summary, for examples i got error and results for all tickets within project

 curl -D- -u user:password -X GET -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://jira.corp.company.com/rest/api/2/search?jql=project="Technology" and summary="Check o365 license"

i got error

curl: (6) Could not resolve host: summary=Check o365 license Unknown error

[Laurens Coppens]

not sure but I think you need to escape the quotes for project and summary

[Dragan Vucanovic]

wow, you were right Laurens:

curl -D- -u user:password -X GET -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://jira.corp.comapny.com/rest/api/2/search?jql=project='"Technology"+AND+summary~"Check%20the%20o365%20License"'

now, how to extract key and pass it to code in firs link ?

[Laurens Coppens]

i think you will need to write a powershell/bash/perl/... script to process the requests.

Thats why i believe automation is the way to go.

[Dragan Vucanovic]

okay, i use this bash to create subtask:

curl -D- -u user:pass -X POST --data {"fields":{"project":{"key":"TECH"},"parent":{"key":"TECH-456"},"summary":"Sub-task of TECH-456","description": "Don't forget to do this too.","issuetype":{"id":"10001"}}} -H "Content-Type:application/json" https://jira.company.com/rest/api/2/issue
 


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  curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched close brace/bracket at pos 50
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[Dragan Vucanovic]

curl -D- -u user:pass -X POST --data {"fields":{"project":{"key":"TECH"},"parent":{"key":"TECH-456"},"summary":"Sub-task of TECH-456","description": "Don't forget to do this too.","issuetype":{"id":"10001"}}} -H "Content-Type:application/json" https://jira.company.com/rest/api/2/issue

{"errorMessages":["Unexpected character ('f' (code 102)): was expecting double-quote to start field name\n at [Source: org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteInputStream@4e5fc6ec; line: 1, column: 3]"]}