JIRA REST API add comment

[Nad Af]

I would like to impersonate an account when adding a comment. For example, if user A is adding the comment, I want the author/poster of that comment to be person B provided that user A is admin. Is that possible ? how?

NOTE: Setting the author field while posting the comment has no effect.

Thanks.

[LucasA · Accepted solution]

Hi,

This is not possible. You will need to specify an username when triggering the REST call, and all the actions he perform (add comments, create issues, etc) will inherit his ownership.

Best regards,
Lucas Timm

[SomnathK]

One of my colleagues Used this. U may try and see if it works for you:

ComponentAccessor.getJiraAuthenticationContext().setLoggedInUser(updatedBy);