Create an Issue with Epic as parent using REST API

[Vijay Gopu]

Hi,

I am able to create an Epic using REST api. But unable to create issue under the created EPIC? How do i do this?

EPIC: [Success]

POST : /rest/api/2/issue

Request:

{
"fields": {
"project":{"key": "JIRA PROJECT"},
"summary": "Customer : Customer Name",
"description": "[TEST] : Creating of an issue using project keys and issue type names using the REST API",
"issuetype": {"name": "Epic"},
"customfield_10008": "Customer : Customer Name"
}
}

Issue: [Failed]

POST : /rest/api/2/issuetype

Request:

{
"fields":{
"project":{"key": "JIRA PROJECT"},
"parent": {"key": "JIRA PROJECT-1336"},
"summary": "Application Name: Customer Name",
"description": "Don't forget to do this too.",
"issuetype": {"name": "Project"}
}
}

Exception:

{    "errorMessages": [        "Unrecognized field \"fields\" (Class com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.rest.json.beans.IssueTypeCreateBean), not marked as ignorable\n at [Source: org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteInputStream@344973c6; line: 3, column: 6] (through reference chain: com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.rest.json.beans.IssueTypeCreateBean[\"fields\"])"    ]}

Also if i change the URI to /rest/api/2/issue then i get a different exception:

{    "errorMessages": [],    "errors": {        "issuetype": "Issue type 11100 is not a sub-task but a parent is specified."    }}

1. Why is that i am able to create the an issue under Epic using the user interface but not via the REST api?

2. Is this a permission issue or am i doing something wrong. I couldn't figure out. I got the full access for the project to create any type of ticket.

Please let me know.

Thank you,

Vijay

[Najjar _Innovura_ · Accepted solution]

Issue in epic are not considered subtasks of epic

Jira has a Customfield named Epic Link

If you would like to create an issue under an epic, the child issue of the epic should have epic link custom field value with the epic key

Note, Parent is only used for creating subtakss

[Vijay Gopu]

Hi @Najjar _Innovura_ ,

Would you be able to share a simple example on how to do this?

Thank you,

Vijay

[Najjar _Innovura_]

curl --location --request POST 'http://localhost:2990/jira/rest/api/2/issue' \
--header 'Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "fields": {
        "project": {
            "id": "10000"
        },
        "summary": "something'\''s wrong",
        "issuetype": {
            "id": "10000"
        },
        "assignee": {
            "name": "admin"
        },
        "customfield_10102": "JIRA-41"
    }
}'

In my jira instance custom field "Epic Link" id is 10102

[Vijay Gopu]

Thank you @Najjar _Innovura_ . Apparently the customfield can differ is what i found based on this link here

What i received using the REST call is that "Epic Link" in my implementation is "customfield_10007"

URI: /rest/api/2/field

Response Snippet:

{
"id": "customfield_10007",
"key": "customfield_10007",
"name": "Epic Link",
"untranslatedName": "Epic Link",
"custom": true,
"orderable": true,
"navigable": true,
"searchable": true,
"clauseNames": [
"cf[10007]",
"Epic Link"
],
"schema": {
"type": "any",
"custom": "com.pyxis.greenhopper.jira:gh-epic-link",
"customId": 10007
}
}

[Najjar _Innovura_]

Yes epic link defers from instance to instance. your json should look like this:

    "fields": {
        "project": {
            "id": "10000"
        },
        "summary": "something'\''s wrong",
        "issuetype": {
            "id": "10000"
        },
        "assignee": {
            "name": "admin"
        },
        "customfield_10007": "EPIC_KEY_HERE"
    }

[Vijay Gopu]

Thank you @Najjar _Innovura_ I will give this a try. 

Regards.

[Vijay Gopu]

Works!

[Naeem]

@Najjar _Innovura_  hi, i am trying same, but i get this error
"Field 'customfield_10014' cannot be set. It is not on the appropriate screen, or unknown."
can you help me with this? thanks

[Ben Upham]

Ditto, getting same error!

[Lukasz Kalemba]

Same as above: 

Field 'customfield_10101' cannot be set. It is not on the appropriate screen, or unknown. 

[Vijay Gopu]

Where is the answer to this question? Why are you deleting answers in this forum? 

[Vijay Gopu]

@Jack Brickey Do you happen to know Where the answers and discussions on this topic have been moved to? Why am i unable to see the previous discussion?

[Jack Brickey]

@Vijay Gopu , No answers have been deleted. There was an issue with the application that should be fixed at this point.

[Vijay Gopu]

@Jack Brickey Thank you very much for the clarification and looking into this. Much Regards