unable to create issue in Jira using API

[Sharveshwaran Ramesh]

I'm trying to create an issue using the REST API and I get, “parent”: “Could not find the issue by id or key.”

This is my payload,

{ "fields": { "summary": "Test incident", "parent": { "key": "INC" }, "issuetype": { "id": "10546" }, "components": [ { "id": "11173" } ], "project": { "id": "11353" }, "description": "This is a test incident", "reporter": { "id": "5e9711b8756u3c0c151bf369" }, "priority": { "id": "5" } } }

This is my metadata,

"self": "https://mycompany.atlassian.net", "id": "11353", "key": "INC", "name": "Incident Management", "issuetypes": [ { "id": "10546", "description": "", "name": "Incident", "untranslatedName": "Incident", "subtask": false } ]

[Douglas.Swartz · Accepted solution]

In your example,  "key":"INC" should be  "key": "INC-123"

INC identifies the project. You need to identify the individual parent issue.

[Sharveshwaran Ramesh]

Thanks