Creating Sub-Task In Jira via API Rest

[James Lewis]

Hi,

Ive been following the api rest instructions to create a sub-task. I have it creating tasks no problem, but sub tasks - it keeps giving me the following error

400 Bad Request

{
"errorMessages": [],
"errors": {
"project": "project is required"
}
}

Im using this:

{"fields":
{"parent":{"id":"10013"},
"project":{"id":"TMEQ-12"},
"summary":"a test sub-task of my first issue",
"issuetype":{"id":"5"},
"description":"description"}
}

Can anyone assist, Please?

James

[Tarun Sapra · Accepted solution]

You are passing

"project":{"id":"TMEQ-12"},

This doesn't look like a valid project id to me thus the error.

[Tarun Sapra]

See this working sample from docs for sub-task creation using REST API

{
    "fields":
    {
        "project":
        {
            "key": "TEST"
        },
        "parent":
        {
            "key": "TEST-101"
        },
        "summary": "Sub-task of TEST-101",
        "description": "Don't forget to do this too.",
        "issuetype":
        {
            "id": "5"
        }
    }
}

 https://developer.atlassian.com/server/jira/platform/jira-rest-api-examples/ 

[James Lewis]

Thanks it was the id (5) that was wrong in my case. All working now :-)

[Tarun Sapra]

Glad to know it's working, please accept/upvote answer so that others are helped as well.

[Anil Kumar]

@James Lewis | @Tarun Sapra I'm new for jira-rest-api, can you please help with some document guideline. I want to auto create set of sub-task when any story or defect created. Looking for help.

[for now not looking for paid add-on]

[Venugopala Naidu]

Hi @Tarun Sapra

Thank you Tarun , it really helped me