How to Delete Users - Jira Cloud REST API

[Dylan Richards]

I am using the API documentation located here to build an offboarding automation process in Power Automate. My request looks likes this:

My issue is that I'm getting this error when this request runs:

{

  "key": "badRequestFormat",

  "context": {

    "message": "Invalid content type (application/octet-stream).  These are valid: application/json"

  },

  "errorKey": "bad-request-format",

  "errorDetail": {

    "message": "Invalid content type (application/octet-stream).  These are valid: application/json"

  }

}

The content-type header is supplying the exact information that the error message is referring to so I'm not sure why it's throwing this error. I've contacted Jira support and they are confident that the issue lies on the Power Automate side of things. I've also hit a brick wall with Microsoft support. 

Has anyone else had this issue? Is there a way to change the request so that the content-type is accepted or any other workaround?

[Garrett McCreery · Accepted solution]

Hi Dylan...

I just did this for my in Power Automate.

I noticed that when I run the api you described above in Postman it works, however in Power Automate I was getting the same error message you are getting. I ended up adding some body to the call and the error went away... Also Add Content-Type application/json.

[Dylan Richards]

Hey @Garrett McCreery

I apologize for the delayed response. YOU ARE AWESOME!

I've spent countless hours with Jira and Microsoft support and you nailed it on the first try. Thank you so much!

[Garrett McCreery]

@Dylan Richards you are welcome! Glad that fixed it for you!