Making a `multipart/form-data` request in Jira Automation

[Chris Bonnar]

I'm trying to reproduce a `multipart/form-data` request within Jira Automation. The request is a POST to the Confluence v1 API attachments endpoint, and I have called this successfully using Postman.

However, when running within Jira Automation, I'm receiving code 500: `java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileUploadException: Stream ended unexpectedly`.

Researching this error has sent me round in circles with variations of CRLF (or `\r\n`), and I have tried every permutation to no avail. This post looked particularly promising, pointing specifically to the new line before the last boundary - again I experimented to no avail.

The below is the exact request Postman is making for a very simple text file, as captured by Fiddler. I have lifted this exact text into the Jira Automation web request, configuring the same headers Postman is using.

----------------------------882762106784743758392779
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="New Text Document.txt"
Content-Type: text/plain

SampleTextContent
----------------------------882762106784743758392779
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="minorEdit"

1
----------------------------882762106784743758392779--

`Content-Type` header configured in Jira Automation is:

multipart/form-data; boundary=--------------------------882762106784743758392779

Where am I going wrong? TIA!

*Side note - I'm doing this because I want to automatically create a Confluence page which carries the same attachments as the Jira issue that triggered it. If anyone is aware of another way to do this, I'd welcome ideas.

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Chris Bonnar -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

As you appear to be on a paid, Jira license, you may want to work with your site admin to submit this one as a support ticket to Atlassian here: https://support.atlassian.com/contact/#/

In the meantime, you could also ask this one in the developer community here: https://community.developer.atlassian.com/

Kind regards,
Bill