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Update jira issue status with nodejs

I want to update JIRA issue status. What have I done so far?

Firstly I get the transition ids with;

https://hostname/rest/api/2/issue/{issueKey}/trans itions

This returned me(shorten form);

{
"expand":"transitions",
   "transitions":[
      {
       "id":"11",
       "name":"To Do"
      },
      {
       "id":"21",
       "name":"In Progress"
      },
      {
       "id":"31",
       "name":"In Review"
      },
      {
        "id":"41",
        "name":"Done"
      }
    ]
  }

To be able to do the transition;

var url = "https://hostname/rest/api/2/issue/{issueKey}/transitions";
var message = [{
	"update": {
		"comment": [{
			"add": {
				"body": "comment"
			}
		}],
		"worklog" : [{
			"add": {
				"timeSpent" : "timeSpent"
			}
		}]
	},
	"fields": {
		"resolution": {
			"name": "To Do"
		}
	},
	"transition": {
		"id": "11"
	}
}];
request({
	url: url,
	method: "POST",
	json: true,
	body: message
	}, function (error, result){
		if(error){
			nresponse.error(res, error);
		}else{
			console.log(result);
		}
});

This code snippet doesn't throw an error. Actually it returns successfully. But when I check the status, comment section of the issue, I see that nothing has changed. What am I missing? How can I update the JIRA issue status with `node.js`?

console.log(result);

returns as;

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Connect Error</title>
</head>
<body>

<div id="pagecontainer">
<h1>Could not connect to server</h1>

<div class="row">
<p class="label">Overview:</p>
<p class="item">Could not connect to hostname.</p>
</div>
<div class="row">
<p class="label">Details:</p>
<p class="item">The remote side uses a protocol version that is not enabled</p>
</div>

<div id="options">
<p class="label">Options:</p>
<form action=""><input type="button" class="button" onclick="history.back();" value=" Go Back "></form><p class="item">Pressing the button allows you to go to the previous page.</p>
<p class="last-item">You can try to reload the page or check if the URL is correct.</p>
</div>

<div style="clear: both; overflow: hidden; height:1px;"></div>
</div>
</div>

</body>
</html>

What is the meaning of this result? What am I missing?

1 answer

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Hey Zeynep,

I was about to give an answer because I have a working example, but you have edited your post to remove the content.

Do you still need help or did you find the problem?

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Hey Sam,

I realize that I didn't include my JIRA username and password. When I add them to POST, it solved problem. And I couldn't delete my post. But now, I realize that I can't add a comment while changing the issue status by api.

How can I resuscitate my post?

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I've edited your post to put back the details of your original question.

I think the comment will only work if the transition you are doing has a screen where the user could actually add comments if using the JIRA GUI.

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Thank you for editing the question:)

I couldn't understand what you have said, is it not possible to add a comment while changing the status of an issue?

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In document I've seen; https://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/cloud/#api/2/issue-doTransition

It includes comment section in update object, I also follow it, but couldn't get a result. Why?

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You can add a comment, but I think it depends on the details/set-up of the transition you are executing. If that transition allows a comment, you can add one.

I'll check my test set up and get back to you.

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Ok Sam, I will wait for you

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This simplified version of your code works OK for me:

var request = require('request');

var url = "https://hostname/rest/api/2/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/transitions";

var message = {
    "update": {
        "comment": [{"add": {"body": "Test comment."}}]
    },
    "transition": {"id": "21"}
};

request({
    url: url,
    method: "POST",
    json: true,
    body: message,
    auth: {user: "username", pass: "password"}
}, function (error, response, body) {
    if (!error && response.statusCode === 204) {
        console.log("OK");
    } else if (error) {
        console.log(error);
    } else {
        console.log(response.statusCode);
    }
});

I find that the test comment only works if the JIRA workflow is set up to show a screen during the transition I am excecuting.

In other words the API respects the settings that apply to the JIRA UI. If you can't add a comment during the transition via the UI, then you can't do it via REST either. I found some info in this old question to back that up.

You can check which transitions ids have a screen, and which fields are available, by making a GET request, with the 'expand' parameter, like this:

https://hostname/rest/api/2/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/transitions?expand=transitions.fields

Look for those where 'hasScreen' = true.

So in this example, I can add a comment when doing transition id 21, but cannot add a comment when doing transition id 11:

{
   expand: "transitions",
   transitions: [
    {
        id: "11",
        name: "To Do",
        to: {...},
        hasScreen: false,
        fields: {... }
    },
    {
        id: "21",
        name: "In Progress",
        to: {...},
        hasScreen: true,
        fields: {...}
 ...etc...

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p.s. I guess the example in the Atlassian REST documentation (https://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/cloud/#api/2/issue-doTransition) includes examples of stuff in the update and fields parameters to show how it can be done if your transition does have a screen where fields/comments can be set.

It does imply that not all fields can be set, since it mentions how those than can be set can be determined:

"The fields that can be set on transtion, in either the fields parameter or the update parameter can be determined using the /rest/api/2/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/transitions?expand=transitions.fields resource. "

But it could be clearer about the comments.

Where you can't add a comment in a particular transition, I suppose you can always do it a second call to /rest/api/2/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/comment.

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This is interesting.

https://hostname/rest/api/2/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/
transitions?expand=transitions.fields

returns me as;

{
   "expand":"transitions",
   "transitions":[
      {
         "id":"11",
         "name":"To Do",
         "to":{
            "self":"https://hostname/rest/api/2/status/10000",
            "description":"",
            "iconUrl":"",
            "name":"To Do",
            "id":"10000",
            "statusCategory":{
               "self":"https://hostname/rest/api/2/statuscategory/2",
               "id":2,
               "key":"new",
               "colorName":"blue-gray",
               "name":"To Do"
            }
         },
         "fields":{

         }
      },
      {
         "id":"21",
         "name":"In Progress",
         "to":{
            "self":"https://hostname/rest/api/2/status/3",
            "description":"This issue is being actively worked on at the moment by the assignee.",
            "iconUrl":"https://hostname/images/icons/statuses/inprogress.png",
            "name":"In Progress",
            "id":"3",
            "statusCategory":{
               "self":"https://hostname/rest/api/2/statuscategory/4",
               "id":4,
               "key":"indeterminate",
               "colorName":"yellow",
               "name":"In Progress"
            }
         },
         "fields":{

         }
      },
      {
         "id":"31",
         "name":"In Review",
         "to":{
            "self":"https://hostname/rest/api/2/status/10100",
            "description":"",
            "iconUrl":"https://hostname/",
            "name":"In Review",
            "id":"10100",
            "statusCategory":{
               "self":"https://hostname/rest/api/2/statuscategory/4",
               "id":4,
               "key":"indeterminate",
               "colorName":"yellow",
               "name":"In Progress"
            }
         },
         "fields":{

         }
      },
      {
         "id":"41",
         "name":"Done",
         "to":{
            "self":"https://hostname/rest/api/2/status/10001",
            "description":"",
            "iconUrl":"https://hostname/",
            "name":"Done",
            "id":"10001",
            "statusCategory":{
               "self":"https://hostname/rest/api/2/statuscategory/3",
               "id":3,
               "key":"done",
               "colorName":"green",
               "name":"Done"
            }
         },
         "fields":{

         }
      }
   ]
}

There is no field as "hasScreen"

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It's probably a version difference. What version of JIRA do you have?

I assumed JIRA Cloud as you linked to the Cloud REST API docs, but maybe you have JIRA Server?

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Clicked About JIRA and it says;

License Information for JIRA
JIRA v7.2.6

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Comment

That's JIRA Server, then. There are some subtle differences between the APIs.

Here are the relevant docs:

For JIRA Server, which doesn't include the 'hasScreen' field:

https://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/server/#api/2/issue-getTransitions

For JIRA Cloud, which does include the 'hasScreen' field:

https://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/cloud/#api/2/issue-getTransitions

Not sure why the difference. Confusing.

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