unable to update custom field

[Kenny Roostam]

Hello,

I am trying to create a ticket using rest api. One of the fields that I include in payload is customfield

"schema": {"type": "any","custom": "com.riadalabs.jira.plugins.insight:rlabs-customfield-default-object","customId": 19509}

When i check the json of this field in existing ticket it shows me this 

"customfield_19509": ["Team123 (PTCI-1549)"]
So my json is

"customfield_19509" = @("Team123 (PTCI-1549)") | ConvertTo-Json
but i am getting this error 
{"errorMessages":[],"errors":{"customfield_19509":"expected Object"}} 
When i send the object it says data was not array, please help

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Kenny Roostam and welcome to the community, 

The field you are trying to update is an asset field. As stated by your message, as well as gronthe asset rest api doc, the field should be an array. Please take a look at the documentation:

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/assetsapi/rest/api-group-assets/#api-group-assets

In addition, can you please paste here the request you are sending, as well as the payload?

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

@Kenny Roostam are on jira cloud or on premise?

[Kenny Roostam]

@Alex Koxaras _Relational_ jira cloud

[Kenny Roostam]

@Alex Koxaras _Relational_ apologies, i was informed that its cloud but checking now, by going to /rest/api/2/serverInfo "deploymentType": "Server"  and version is v9.2

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

The check this link https://confluence.atlassian.com/servicemanagementserver/assets-rest-api-documentation-1044101761.html

Find the appropriate asset versions, as well as the right JSM version

[Kenny Roostam]

Sorry @Alex Koxaras _Relational_ , so i can't set the values for assets fields using /rest/api/2/issue/ .I should use their own api right?

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

From the message you are getting, it seems that it works. However the data you are sending is not an object array.

[Kenny Roostam]

I'm sending like this

$payLoad = @{
"fields" = @{
"customfield_19509" = @("Team123 (PTCI-1549)")
}} | ConvertTo-Json 

but I get an error 

{"errorMessages":[],"errors":{"customfield_19509":"expected Object"}}

I'm sending like this

$payLoad = @{
"fields" = @{
"customfield_19509" = @(@{"value" = "Team123 (PTCI-1549)"})
}} | ConvertTo-Json

it creates the ticket however this field is not visible in ticket in browser. When i get the json of this ticket I see that its null "customfield_19509": null

However in another existing ticket json looks like this
"customfield_19509": ["Team123 (PTCI-1549)"]
This ticket was created using UI
Do you know maybe how should I send this array properly?

[Kenny Roostam]

I have tried with postman as well. When I send "customfield_19509": ["Team123 (PTCI-1549)"] 
I get

 "errorMessages": [],

    "errors": {

        "customfield_19509": "expected Object"

    }

and

When I send 

  "customfield_19509": [

      {

        "value": "Team123  (PTCI-1549)"

      }

    ]
It goes thru and creates the ticket but customfield_19509: null and this field is not visible in ticket

[Kenny Roostam]

hi @Alex Koxaras _Relational_  thanks for quick response 

$token = ""
$headers = @{
Authorization = "Bearer $token"
"Content-Type" = "application/json"
}
$payLoad = @{
"fields" = @{
"project" = @{
"key" = "SDSD"
}
"issuetype" = @{
"name" = "Change Request"
}
"summary" = "Test change request"
"description" = "test change request"
"assignee" = @{
"name" = "john.doe"
}
"customfield_13804" = @{
"value" = "Standard"
}
"customfield_19509" = @("Team123 (PTCI-1549)")
}
} | ConvertTo-Json -Depth 10

Invoke-RestMethod -Uri https://jirainstanceXXX.com/rest/api/2/issue/ -Method 'Post' -Headers $headers -Body $payLoad -ErrorAction Stop