Error on rest creating an issue

[Georg Ording]

Hi all,

i m implenenting a tool to create issues to jira from php using REST

my request looks like this

curl -u erp:wasd --header "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST --data {"fields":{"project":{"key":"COMMON"},"summery":"Test ChargenNr","descrpition":"some description","issuetype":{"id":"5"}}} http://host.xy:post/rest/api/latest/issue/

the answer is

stdClass Object ( [errorMessages] => Array ( [0] => Unexpected character ('f' (code 102)): was expecting double-quote to start field name at [Source: org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteInputStream@37edb80; line: 1, column: 3] ) )

when i send a request without sending data all is fine.

the return  of 

curl -u user :pass Http://host.xy:port/rest/applinks/latest/manifest

is
..
    [version] => 5.1.6
    [buildNumber] => 785
    [applinksVersion] => 3.7.3
..

what is wrong with my request to create a issues

thx in advance

Georg

[Georg Ording · Accepted solution]

Hallo Nic,

I changed field names as shown in the example under

https://developer.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/JIRA+REST+API+Example+-+Create+Issue#JIRARESTAPIExample-CreateIssue-Examplesofcreatinganissue

the curl command now looks like this

curl -u user:pass --header "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST --data {"fields":{"project":{"key":"COMMON"},"summary":"Test ChargenNr","description":"some description","issuetype":{"id":"5"}}} http://host.xy:port/rest/api/latest/issue/

unfortunatly I get the same error as befor

georg

[Georg Ording]

Hi to all

after a bit more of reserce I found the solution to this problem

the data string had to be in double Quotes like this "{}" all double Quote inside the data string have to get escaped so the final command looks like this

curl -u user:pass --header "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST --data "{\"fields\":{\"project\":{\"key\":\"COMMON\"},\"summary\":\"Test ChargenNr\",\"description\":\"some description\",\"issuetype\":{\"id\":\"29\"}}}" http://host.xy:port/rest/api/latest/issue/

this works fine to me now

[Development]

curl -D- -u sarika:password -X POST --data {"fields": {"project":{ "key": "Im"},"summary": "REST ye merry gentlemen.","description": "Creating of an issue using project keys and issue type names using the REST API","issuetype": {"name": "Bug"}}} -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://localhost:8080/rest/api/2/issue

But I am getting this error, i am not understanding where i am going wrong 

curl: (3) [globbing] nested brace in column 10
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: key
curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched close brace/bracket in column 3
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: REST ye merry gentlemen.,description
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: Creating of an issue using project keys and issue type names using the REST API,issuetype
curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched brace in column 1
curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched close brace/bracket in column 4
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
X-AREQUESTID: 793x751x1
X-ASEN: SEN-L8133948
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=663D2360E11386DA0D7CC5BD3C24E309; Path=/; HttpOnly
X-Seraph-LoginReason: OK
Set-Cookie: atlassian.xsrf.token=B08B-686I-ATFB-BS3I|e996f4af4997120d8563fe7c1ac88ada11b43dfa|lin; Path=/
X-ASESSIONID: h1fk5w
X-AUSERNAME: sarika
Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, no-transform
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 07:43:49 GMT
Connection: close

{"errorMessages":["Unexpected character ('f' (code 102)): was expecting double-quote to start field name\n at [Source: org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteInputStream@18fd308b; line: 1, column: 3]"]}

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

It's saying your JSON is not structured correctly.  I'd check the layout is exactly what you copied from the example doc (it looks like the example data to me, so that's a bit of a guess)

One thing I find useful when using REST is to put the JSON in a more human-readable file and use an editor that can understand JSON and tell you when it's wrong.  Curl can be told to read that file instead of the long block of text.  For example:

nic reststuff$ cat data.txt
{
    "fields": {
       "project":
       {
          "key": "TIS"
       },
       "summary": "Weekly cleaning up of the engineering lab",
       "description": "A task for making sure we clean up regularly",
       "issuetype": {
          "name": "Task"
       }
   }
}

nic reststuff$ curl -D- -u nic:password -X POST --data @data.txt -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://myjira:8080/rest/api/2/issue/

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I'd start with spelling - summery and descrpition are not Jira fields.