unable to create a jira task under the epic

[Arun Kumar]

curl --request POST \

--url 'https://cccx.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue' \

--header 'Authorization: Basic YXJ1bmtAdG' \

--header 'Accept: application/json' \

--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \

--data '{

"fields": {

"summary": "test jira by api - arun",

"issuetype": {

"id": "3"               ### task id

},

"project": {

"key": "INIT"

},

"description": {

"type": "doc",

"version": 1,

"content": [

{

"type": "paragraph",

"content": [

{

"text": "arun ticket",

"type": "text"

}

]

}

]

},

"customfield_10008": "INIT-2907"     ##epic link

}

}'



Error : {"errorMessages":[],"errors":{"issuetype":"The issue type selected is invalid."}}

[Andy Heinzer]

This error message would tend to indicate that this issue type is invalid to create in that project.  Could you try to do the following GET to see what values are returned?

• Get project

curl --request GET \ 
--url 'https://your-domain.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/project/INIT' \ 
--user 'email@example.com:<api_token>' \ 
--header 'Accept: application/json'

This query should be able to tell you the ID of the project.  With that number, you can then query which issuetypes can be created there in

• Get issue types for project

curl --request GET \ 
--url 'https://your-domain.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issuetype/project?projectId={projectId}' \ 
--header 'Authorization: Basic [encodedtoken]' \
--header 'Accept: application/json'

This can then give us the id of the issuetypes in that project. 

From there I'm interested to see if you can send a POST call to just create an issue of this type (even without trying to set the Epic in the issue create call).  Curious to learn more here.

Andy