Create JIRA issue from SharePoint Work Request

[Trey Hamilton]

Currently in my workplace, we use both SharePoint and JIRA as issue trackers/work requests. What we want is when a user submits a work request on our SharePoint site, it will automatically create a JIRA issue, and populate fields in the JIRA issue based on fields in the SharePoint work request. (I hope I'm making sense so far) I have been able to successfully use the JIRA Rest API to print JIRA issue fields to the console in Visual Studio, but ultimately will somehow need  JIRA to recognize that a SharePoint work request has been submitted, and to create an issue from it. 

[Ben Kelley]

I'm not all that familiar with what you can do from the SharePoint side, but can you get SharePoint to call the JIRA REST API to create an issue when a work request is created?

[Trey Hamilton]

This is what I got to work for me. I just add a service reference in my visual studio project to our SharePoint site, then using the Atlassian SDK, take those items from SharePoint and populate them into JIRA. When I run my program, it creates JIRA stories from the SharePoint work requests.

using Atlassian.Jira;

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;

namespace ConsoleApplication3
{
public class Jira_SP_API
{
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
Jira jira = Jira.CreateRestClient("jira url", "username", "password");

var context = new SharePoint.ITDataContext(
new Uri("SharePoint url"));
context.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;

var workrequests = from request in context.WorkRequests
where request.Id > 260
orderby request.Id
select new
{
request.Id,
request.Title,
request.RequestTypeValue,
request.RequestStatusValue,
request.PriorityValue,
request.RequestDate,
request.Requestor.Name,
request.BusinessApprover.FirstName,
request.BusinessApprover.LastName,
request.WorkAssignedTo,
request.FunctionalArea,
request.WorkRequestFormReadOnly
};

foreach (var request in workrequests)
{
try
{
var issue = jira.CreateIssue("TEST");
issue.Type = "Story";
issue.Priority = request.PriorityValue;
issue.Summary = request.Title;

issue.SaveChanges();
}
catch (Exception) { }

}
}
}
}

What I haven't gotten to work is to populate custom JIRA fields I created in my JIRA environment. I've tried this: 

issue.CustomFields.Add("Functional Area", request.FunctionalArea); //Functional Area customfield_10050

But when I run my program with this in my code, it doesn't create JIRA stories.

[K R]

How do you call the JIRA REST api?  I don't have Visual Studio only access to SharePoint Designer from which I could make the call.