Can not create a release version via the REST API calls. Can create it manually.

[Viraj Wijesooriya]

Hello,

I'm trying to create a release version in JIRA via a REST API call.
I have access to do this manually from the UI.

I can also fetch the current release versions, so my session cookies should be OK.

Getting a 404 saying "errorMessages":["Project with key \\'XXX\\' either does not exist or you do not have permission to create versions in it." when try to do the POST.

Code below:-

import requests
import json
import getpass

user_name = input("Please enter your user name (Provide with quotes. Ex :- 'john.smith'):- ")
password = input("Please enter your password (Provide with quotes. Ex :- 'abc123'):- ")

response_init = requests.post("https://jira.xxx.com/rest/auth/1/session",
                                  data='{ "username": "' + user_name + '", "password": "' + password + '" }',
                                  headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"})

cookie_name = response_init.cookies._cookies['jira.xxx.com']['/']['JSESSIONID'].name
cookie_value = response_init.cookies._cookies['jira.xxx.com']['/']['JSESSIONID'].value

cookie = cookie_name + "=" + cookie_value

# I can fetch the current versions for the project. So I guess my access cookie is working.
response_get = requests.get("https://jira.xxx.com/rest/api/2/project/PNG/versions", headers={"Cookie": cookie})
print(response_get.text)

body = json.dumps({
    "self": "http://jira.iress.com/rest/api/~ver~/version/33072",
    "description": "Created @ CodeIT",
    "name": "2019-Jul-WK28",
    "archived": "false",
    "released": "false",
    "releaseDate": "2019-07-12",
    "project": "XXX",
    #"projectId": 33072,
    "id": "33072",
    "overdue": "false"
    }
)

headers = {
   "Accept": "application/json",
   "Content-Type": "application/json",
   "Bearer": cookie
}

# This is the request which is failing.
response_post = requests.request("POST", "https://jira.xxx.com/rest/api/2/version", data = body, headers = headers)


print response_post.status_code
if response_post.status_code == 200:
    print "you did it!!"

[Carl Yamamoto-Furst]

Are you sure your auth headers are right? I think you need something like:

"Authorization: Bearer " + cookie_value

HTH. 

[Vasiliy Zverev]

Viraj, hi!

Make sure that user, which creates version has all permissions for this.

[Viraj Wijesooriya]

Well as I mentioned this user can create it manually via the Web UI. It's only the REST call which is not working.

I saw this :-

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/#api-api-3-version-post

Anyone know what OAuth scopes means in there??