How to send attachments to a comment through the REST API?

[agomez0207]

Hello, I am trying to send a comment through the REST API but I don't see in the documentation a valid endpoint to send an attachment to a comment, thanks

[Andy Heinzer · Accepted solution]

In JIRA, attachments are not bound to comments, but rather to specific issues in JIRA.  There is way add attachments in JIRA via REST, the endpoint in JIRA is /api/2/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/attachments

https://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/server/#api/2/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/attachments-addAttachment

[agomez0207]

Thanks

[Chris Gembarowski]

From the point of view of us users this is a lie.  The GUI very clearly allows the user to add an attachment via a comment.

[Rishi Sharma]

Yes! The GUI has a clear segregated way to provide attachments to a comment and that shows in the comment itself.

[Melvin Corbes]

I'm trying to duplicate the functionality of the JIRA interface in Salesforce, but I'm having some trouble. I've been able to add files and comments, but I'm unable to attach a file to a comment. Do you have any ideas or possible fixes for this problem?

[Jesse Maxwell]

Here's the concept:

1. Upload the attachment
2. Include in the comment like this: 

"!sebastien-jermer-n7DY58YFg9E-unsplash.jpg|width=2048,height=1536!\n\nThis is a sample image."

[jomo]

The problem here is that jira escapes the added image with backslashes. 

!logo.png|!    becomes => \!logo.png\|\! 

and will therefore not be displayed on the comment.

Any way to avoid this?

[Stephen Deutsch]

There are some examples of using the API here:

https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/confluence-server-rest-api/confluence-rest-api-examples

but maybe you can explain better what you are trying to do?

If you want an attachment to be diplayed inside a comment, you will probably have to first attach the attachment to the page (I don't think you can attach an attachment to a comment, only to its parent page), and then submit a comment with the necessary storage format (you can look at the storage format of an attachment displayed in a page to see what you need).