What's the right value for user, when adding user to role in project, using REST API ?

[Maxence.Vanbesien]

Hello,
I'm currently building a small script that adds a user to a project's role, and I'm not sure about the user value.

I followed the documentation at https://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/cloud/#api/2/project/{projectIdOrKey}/role and in the Add Actors users, I currently provide the user key but the API keeps returning 404 (it works with groups !)

I've validated that the project existed, along with the role in the project (since the GET call returns fine & the POST failed with 404). I feel that I pass the wrong value in the user ({ "user" : ["admin"] })

Where should be the value & how could I get more info about the encountered error? (I call the API from Java using Jersey).

Thanks in advance,
Maxence VANBESIEN

[Deleted user · Accepted solution]

Hi Maxence,

This is working fine for me.
curl -u username:password -X POST --data '{"user" : ["admin"]}'  jiraurl/rest/api/2/project/projectkey/role/id -H'Content-type: application/json' -H'Accept: application/json'

[Maxence.Vanbesien]

Hello Swetha, 

I've tried and it also works for my for my admin & sysadmin... But not non-admin users...

[Deleted user]

Hi Maxcence,

It works for non admin users too for me. Can you paste the error here.

[Maxence.Vanbesien]

Nothing more than the 404..., when calling through Jersey (in Java)

When doing with cURL, I get the following 

{"errorMessages":["We can't find 'Maxence.Vanbesien' in any accessible user directory. Check they're still active and available, and try again."],"errors":{}}

While querying the user direclty https://.../jira/rest/api/2/user?username=Maxence.Vanbesien returns the right information ({"self":"https://kazan.atosworldline.com/jira/rest/api/2/user?username=Maxence.Vanbesien","key":"maxence.vanbesien","name":"Maxence.Vanbesien","emailAddress":"...","avatarUrls":{...},"displayName":"Maxence Vanbésien","active":true,"timeZone":"Europe/Paris","locale":"en_UK","groups":{"size":7,"items":[]},"applicationRoles":{"size":1,"items":[]},"expand":"groups,applicationRoles"})

[Deleted user]

Did you try with any other non-admin user other than maxence.vanbesien?

[Maxence.Vanbesien]

I think I found the solution...

The username should not be the name but the key (case is different in my case) and when using Jersey, we need to specify the type & the accept parameters (your cURL command gave me the clue)

(client.resource(roleURL).type("application/json").accept("application/json").post(element.toString()))

[Deleted user]

Good to hear that :)

[Powpow Shen]

This is more like a documentation issue.

In jira official document, username should be used. But user key is the one actually accepted. Username and user key can be the same most time but different sometimes. JIRA also provides a rest api for getting user info. You can use that API to see if that is your case.

[mvanbesien]

Thanks for your reply !

[Onuche Akor Idoko]

Thanks very much. This works also with the project role services for this action.