How to add label to build or plan using bamboo rest api

[Tomasz Pawlak]

No ideas left.

When I'm setting up request header field content-type to application/xml and setting proper content-length I'm recieving bad request 400 status code. Are there any special/mandatory fields need to be used for POST ?

[Alexey Chystoprudov · Accepted solution]

Hello Tomasz,

Just tested adding of build label by rest API at latest Bamboo 5.7.2

Used Chrome extension Simple REST Client

URL: http://localhost:6990/bamboo/rest/api/latest/result/BB-MR-2/label

Method: POST

Headers: 

• Content-Type: application/xml
• Accept: application/xml

Data: <label name="xml_label" />

It requires authentication, so at first I logged in as admin at other tab. 

Submitted result, received response 204. Refreshed build list and found that build #2 of MR plan has "xml_label" label.

Please let me know if you receive another result.

[Krystian Brazulewicz]

I'd like to add commandline example to what @Alexey Chystoprudov wrote:

curl -X POST --user admin:admin -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"name":"new-label"}' http://localhost:8085/bamboo/rest/api/latest/result/FOO-BAR-2/label

I also suggest to always use JSON format which is lighter than XML

[Atul Bhingarde]

It worked fine, but only for static strings, I had hard time with the variables

[Atul Bhingarde]

I found a solution -d '{"name":"'"$VAR1"'"}' works for the variables.

Now I am finding that the label is changed to lower case, searching for the solution :) 

[Tomasz Pawlak]

It's working. Thanks guys. Looks like the crucial field for header is "Accept". Without it didn't work.