I've just posted an issue by script runner. How to get the issue key in the issue ?

[上原英知]

I want to create the monthly running script that creates a monthly issue and subtasks of the issue. To create the subtasks, I think I have to retrieve the issue key from the issue. Could I get the issue key from the issue I've just posted to the project in Jira?

[Hana Kučerová · Accepted solution]

Hi @上原英知 ,

welcome to the Atlassian community!

You can get the issue key, you should be able to obtain it from the response of the post request.

See here.

Basically something like:

def resp = post("/rest/api/2/issue") 

...

String key = resp.body.key

But you should also check the response, if everything was ok during the request.

[上原英知]

Thanks for your reply!

I thought I could get the response by post() method-i.e.

'{"id":"10188",

"key":"ACCT-154",

"self":"https://japan-asset-management.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/10188"}'

But I couldn't get the value of the key in the field by using the code - resp.properties.key or resp.body.key. What went wrong?

I tested the code below.

def projectKey = 'ACCT'
def taskType = get('/rest/api/2/issuetype').asObject(List).body.find { it['name'] == 'Task' }['id']

def resp = post('/rest/api/2/issue')
.header('Content-Type', 'application/json')
.body(
[
fields: [
summary : 'Task Summary',
description: "Don't forget to do this!.",
project : [
key: projectKey
],
issuetype : [
id: taskType
]
]
])
.asString().body

resp
assert resp.properties.key == "ACCT-154"

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Result was below

org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerInvocationException: Assertion failed: assert resp.properties.key == "ACCT-154" | | | | | | | false | | null |

['blank':false,

'empty':false,

'class':class java.lang.String,

'bytes':[123, 34, 105, 100, 34, 58, 34, 49, 48, 49, 56, 56, 34, 44, 34, 107, 101, 121, 34, 58, 34, 65, 67, 67, 84, 45, 49, 53, 52, 34, 44, 34, 115, 101, 108, 102, 34, 58, 34, 104, 116, 116, 112, 115, 58, 47, 47, 106, 97, 112, 97, 110, 45, 97, 115, 115, 101, 116, 45, 109, 97, 110, 97, 103, 101, 109, 101, 110, 116, 46, 97, 116, 108, 97, 115, 115, 105, 97, 110, 46, 110, 101, 116, 47, 114, 101, 115, 116, 47, 97, 112, 105, 47, 50, 47, 105, 115, 115, 117, 101, 47, 49, 48, 49, 56, 56, 34, 125], 'latin1':true]

'{"id":"10188",

"key":"ACCT-154",

"self":"https://japan-asset-management.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/10188"}' at ConsoleScriptExecution1_groovyProxy.run(Unknown Source) Caused by: Assertion failed:

[Hana Kučerová]

Hi @上原英知 ,

I believe the difference is in the way, how the response is formatted.

In the example I've mentioned is:

def resp = post("/rest/api/2/issue")
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.body(...)
.asObject(Map)

But you are using:

 def resp = post('/rest/api/2/issue')
.header('Content-Type', 'application/json')
.body(...)
.asString().body

I don't know if there is any reason, why you want to be the response formatted as a string, but I think it would be much easier to work with objects. Then you should be able to obtain the key "using dots" like 

resp.body.key

[上原英知]

Thank you, it does work completely!