Invalid request payload when i am trying to assign issues - please help

[saravanan subramanian]

Hi All,

Invalid request payload when i am trying to assign issues in jira cloud using account id- please help

my $update_data1= '{ "fields": { "assignee": { "accountId": "712020:a9b1948f-5348-4f52-96bd-bc33dff89ead" } } }';

$jira_rest->PUT("https://cmegroup-sandbox-461.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/$issue_key/assignee",$update_data1);

$VAR1 = '{"errorMessages":["Invalid request payload. Refer to the REST API documentation and try again."]}';

[Florian Bonniec · Accepted solution]

Hi @saravanan subramanian 

Because you are using the assignation endpoint and not edit endpoint you do not have to specify the field to update.

Payload should be like this

const bodyData = `{ "accountId": "5b10ac8d82e05b22cc7d4ef5" }`;

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-issues/#api-rest-api-3-issue-issueidorkey-assignee-put

Regards

[saravanan subramanian]

Thank you very much for the quick turnaround worked very well

[David Nickell]

You might first double check the account id (or have that person do it for you with the rest MYSELF endpoint).

Otherwise, I don't know the answer but I know where to look.... if you are comfortable with Postman, the libraries are linked on the API document page.  My guess is you can get a clean "body" format there 

[saravanan subramanian]

Thanks for your reply.

I was able to use the below

Payload should be like this

const bodyData = `{ "accountId": "5b10ac8d82e05b22cc7d4ef5" }`;

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-issues/#api-rest-api-3-issue-issueidorkey-assignee-put