"Specify a valid project ID or key" creating issue

[Etienne Sillon]

This is the url I'm using: https://xxxx.atlassian.net/rest/api/latest/issue

and this is the payload I got from an example on the net, I only changed the project key:

{"fields":{"summary":"TEST SUMMARY","issuetype":{"name":"Bug"},"project":{"key":"ET"}}}

BTW, I got the project key from /project/search:

{

  "total": 1,

  "isLast": true,

  "maxResults": 50,

  "values": [{

    "avatarUrls": {...},

    "entityId": "...",

    "isPrivate": false,

    "uuid": "...",

    "expand": "description,lead,issueTypes,url,projectKeys,permissions,insight",

    "simplified": true,

    "name": "...",

    "self": "https://....atlassian.net/rest/api/2/project/10000",

    "style": "next-gen",

    "id": "10000",

    "projectTypeKey": "software",

    "key": "ET",

    "properties": {}

  }],

  "self": "https://....atlassian.net/rest/api/latest/project/search?maxResults=50&startAt=0",

  "startAt": 0

}

I also checked I have access to create issues using /mypermissions?permissions=CREATE_ISSUES

"CREATE_ISSUES": {

    "havePermission": true,

    "name": "Create Issues",

    "description": "Ability to create issues.",

    "id": "11",

    "type": "PROJECT",

    "key": "CREATE_ISSUES"

  }

I followed the authentication tutorial here: https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/jira-rest-api-oauth-authentication/

... and based my code on the examples here: https://bitbucket.org/atlassianlabs/atlassian-oauth-examples/src/master/

Any ideas? Thanks :)

[Thomas Deiler · Accepted solution]

Dear @Etienne Sillon ,

if you try to change the project key of an entire Jira project, I doubt that this is implemented with REST. You need to do this within the UI.

If you want to change the issue key of a single issue, you need:

• create a new one
• clone its content
• link and delete old

This is a "work-a-round". Unfortunately there is no MOVE rest endpoint yet implemented. See JRASERVER-71343 for a suggestion for Server. Its same in Cloud.

So long

Thomas

[Etienne Sillon]

Hi Thomas,

Thank you very much for the reply. I'm not trying to change the project key, I'm just trying to create an issue in the project but I don't seem to be able to specify the correct key.

When I do .../project/search I get my project info including "key": "ET", so that's what I use to create the issue with  .../issue with payload: {"fields":{"summary":"TEST SUMMARY","issuetype":{"name":"Bug"},"project":{"key":"ET"}}}

Cheers,

Etienne

[Thomas Deiler]

Dear @Etienne Sillon ,

sorry for misunderstanding you.

Your question is tagged as "cloud". In this case you do not specify the project key but it's id, instead.

"project": {"id": "10000"}

See more here.

So long

Thomas

[Etienne Sillon]

Hi Thomas, 

Thanks again for the reply. I had tried the project id as well but got the same result. 

I did manage to create an issue by creating an API token and using the curl command as per the link you sent:

curl --request POST \
--url 'https://xxx.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue' \
--user 'xxxxx:xxxxx' \
--header 'Accept: application/json' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
"update": {},
"fields": {
"summary":"TEST SUMMARY","issuetype":{"id":"10001"},"project":{"id":"10000"}
}
}'

Not sure why the exact same payload doesn't work through the Java client, even thought I can access the project and issues using it.

Anyway, all good, I'll use the API token version, thanks again!

Etienne

[Raffaele Messina]

@Etienne Sillon hey i am having the same problem; via postman client everything is fine, but in java client i can't get it to work. Did you solve the problem in the end?

[Etienne Sillon]

@Raffaele Messina yep, this is the code I used:

/******************************************************************************************************/

    public static void createIssue(String projectId, String issueTypeId, String summary, String description) {

    String url = "https://xxxxx.atlassian.net/rest/api/latest/issue";

    JSONObject payload = getCreateIssuePayload(projectId, issueTypeId, summary, description);

        sendHttpPost(url, payload);

    }

/******************************************************************************************************/

    private static JSONObject getCreateIssuePayload(String projectId, String issueTypeId, String summary, String description) {

    JSONObject ret = new JSONObject();

        try {

        JSONObject fieldsData = new JSONObject();

        JSONObject projectData = new JSONObject();

            projectData.put("id", projectId);

    fieldsData.put("project", projectData);

    fieldsData.put("summary", summary);

    fieldsData.put("description", description);

    JSONObject issueTypeData = new JSONObject();

        issueTypeData.put("id", issueTypeId);

    fieldsData.put("issuetype", issueTypeData);

        ret.put("fields", fieldsData);

} catch (JSONException e) {

// TODO Auto-generated catch block

e.printStackTrace();

}

        System.out.println(ret.toString());

return ret;

}

/******************************************************************************************************/

public static String sendHttpPost(String url, JSONObject payload) {

    System.out.println("sendHttpPost(): url=" + url);

String ret = "";

    HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();

    HttpPost post = new HttpPost(url);

    post.addHeader("Accept" , "application/json");

    post.addHeader("Content-Type" , "application/json");

    post.addHeader("Authorization" , "Basic XXXXXXXXX");

    try {

    StringEntity payloadEntity = new StringEntity(payload.toString());

    post.setEntity(payloadEntity);

    HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(post);

        int code = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();

        System.out.println("status=" + code);

    HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

    if (entity != null) {

        InputStream instream = entity.getContent();

        BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(instream), 1);

        try {

                String line;

                while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {

                ret += line;

                }

                instream.close();

                bufferedReader.close();        

            } finally {

            instream.close();

                bufferedReader.close();        

        }

    }

} catch (Exception e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

    if(ret.length() == 0) {

    ret = "I'm sorry, there was an error processing your request";

    }

    System.out.println("sendHttpPost(): ret=" + ret);

    return ret;

}

[Richard Chen]

Getting the exact same issue here. Our organization needs this to automate the creation of bugs.

[Raphael Arias]

I fixed mine by wrapping the whole payload under `fields`.

[Kyle Wright]

This was the same problem I had.

[Anil_Ashokupadhyaya]

Could any share the  payload getting the same 400 response code

This is my below payload JSON

payload = json.dumps(
{
"fields" : {
"project": {
"id":"10000"
},
"summary": "Create JIRA issue",
"issuetype": {
"id": "10001"
},
"parent": {
"key": "PM"
},
"description": {
"type": "doc",
"version": 1,
"content": [
{
"type": "paragraph",
"content": [
{
"text": "This is the description.",
"type": "text"
}
]
}
]
}
}
})