Jira Server API Postman Configuration

[Dan Siegel]

I followed the instructions on https://developer.atlassian.com/server/jira/platform/oauth/ with the sample java code. The sample java code saved a config file to config.properties.

secret=xxx
jira_home=xxxx.com
consumer_key=xxxx
private_key=xxxxx
request_token=xxxxx
access_token=xxxxx

I am able to access using the java methods supplied in the documentation, but I'm having no such luck with Postman. I am either getting either:

• oauth_problem=signature_method_rejected
• oauth_problem=token_rejected

I think I may just have the config wrong in Postman. I have tried:

• Postman: Consumer Key: consumer_key
• Postman: Consumer Secret: private_key, secret
• Postman: Request Token: both request_token, access_token
• Postman Access Token: both request_token, access_token 

I've tried a number of combinations, so I am wondering if either I am missing something or if I am simply just putting the wrong values into the corresponding spots in Postman.

[Peter Nielsen]

Hi,

I really struggled with this but finally made it work using authentication in Postman and coping data from the working Jira example application 

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/jira-rest-api-oauth-authentication/ 

using 

• OAuth 1.0
• Request headers
• Signature method as RSA-SHA1
• Consumer key from the example properties
• Access token from example properties
• Private key from the generated .pem file
• Tick 'Encode the parameters in the ....' under Advanced settings

Just to let others know :-)

[Dan Siegel]

I ended up using the Jira python library and creating a oauth function in python:

def oauth():    
 key_cert_data = None
 with open('jira_privatekey.pem', 'r') as key_cert_file:
   key_cert_data = key_cert_file.read()    
 oauth_dict = {
  'access_token': '',
  'access_token_secret': '',
  'consumer_key': 'OauthKey',
  'key_cert': key_cert_data
   }
 return oauth_dict

[Dan Siegel]

For those who come across this post in the future, I was never able to quite solve the issue with Postman, but I came across this post which was helpful:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/REST-Api-Oauth-python-oauth-problem-signature-method-rejected/qaq-p/657212

And this python library helped quite a bit as well: https://jira.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

[Josh Nader]

Put the Consumer key( the one that you entered in Applications Links when setting up the Application URL) and

oauth_token & oauth_secret in the Header section of the Postman call , keep the Authorisation Type as No Auth.

This worked for me.