How to Add Watchers to an Issue?

[Denis Shvetsov]

Hello. So, I'm trying to add a particular person as a watcher to a number of issues via API, but it doesn't work.

According to this page https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/REST/1000.824.0/#api/2/issue-addWatcher, (the `example` there is exceptionally helpful, btw), I'm supposed to send POST request to `/rest/api/2/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/watchers` with a `username` for a parameter. However, when I do that, my own user gets added to watchers, not the desired user that I send in params. I still get 204, which is a success code here.

URL I'm using:

('https://company.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/issue_key/watchers', auth=auth, headers=headers, params=params)

headers = {
    "User-Agent": "dummyValue",
    "X-Atlassian-Token": "no-check",
    "Accept": "application/json",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
}

params (with the email of the desired user)

{"username": "JoeSmith@company.com"}

What am I doing wrong?

P.S.: I'm kinda confused by the 'username' entity. When I get a user object via API, it has 'emailAddress', 'accountId' and 'displayName' parameters, - but not a `username`. What's up with that?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Go to Admin -> Roles and remove the default users from the roles.

[Peter DeWitt]

Marcus, it sounds like you need two separate security schemes for these projects.  I recommend creating a new security group for each project and assigning those security groups the correct permissions for the two new schemes you created.  Add specific users to each group and they will only have access to the projects they are supposed to have access too.

[Marcus Mietz]

Would I need to create an issue security scheme for every client we'll work with or will something along the lines of

• "Company Internal" for every associate of our company
• "External Client" for every client

do the trick?

Or are we not talking issue security but rather permissions?