How do I set the reporter for an issue through the rest api?

[Alex Dahl]

I am trying to use the Jira rest API to make an issue request from our website. I have successfully made a post request that makes a ticket, but I can not figure out how to set the reporter to a specific customer. 

What I am doing is I use the API to make a post request to make a user, if one already exists the API lets me know, and I continue on to step two which is making the issue request. 

The issue request works except for this one error: reporter:"The reporter specified is not a user."

The Data Object I am using

let apiPostData = {
    "fields": {
        "project": {
            "id": "10000"
        },
        "summary": title,
        "issuetype": {
            "id": issueType
        },
        "priority": {
            "id": "3"
        },
        "reporter": {
            "name": "testUser", // test data
            "email": "testUser@test.com" // test data
        },
        "description": description,
        // customfield_10050 = client
        // customfield_10051 = project
        // customfield_10052 = langPair
        // customfield_10053 = file
        // customfield_10054 = where
        // customfield_10055 = who
    }
};

Thank you in advance 

[Alexey Matveev · Accepted solution]

Hello,

It should be like this:

let apiPostData = {
    "fields": {
        "project": {
            "id": "10000"
        },
        "summary": title,
        "issuetype": {
            "id": issueType
        },
        "priority": {
            "id": "3"
        },
        "reporter": {
            "name": "testUser"
        },
        "description": description
        // customfield_10050 = client
        // customfield_10051 = project
        // customfield_10052 = langPair
        // customfield_10053 = file
        // customfield_10054 = where
        // customfield_10055 = who
    }
};

[Alex Dahl]

That works, thank you for the help

[Alexey Matveev]

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[Joshua Chauvin]

Can you set the reporter email as well?

[Stuart__]

The user should have an email address associated in user management. No need to set it here.

[Benjamin Paz]

.