How do I upload attachment to JIRA Issue via REST API?

[Paul Shin]

I've followed the instruction and tried the curl example at https://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/latest/#id102824. However, I'm getting "Unauthorized (401)" error. So is the example wrong, or am I missing something? Thanks!

BTW, other REST API calls (creating and updating Issue) work fine.

[Faisal]

Hi Paul,

Can you kindly try to run the following cURL command and see if it helps?

curl -D- -u admin:admin -X POST -H "X-Atlassian-Token: nocheck" -F "file=@das.txt" http://localhost:8082/jira1/rest/api/2/issue/MP-1/attachments

I have tested the cURL command, and it works on my end. However, kindly note to change the username/password, filename, and your instance URL as needed.

If the problem remains, that you still get the HTTP 401 error, then can you kindly try to add the attachment to other issue? This is to confirm that the problem is not related to Create Attachments permission, in the permission scheme associated to the project.

I hope that this will help!

[Sagar Kalburgi]

THIS CODE WORKS

public class JiraRest {

public static void main(String[] args) throws ClientProtocolException, IOException 
{
String pathname= "<Full path name of the attachment file>"; 
File fileUpload = new File(pathname);

HttpClient httpClient = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
HttpPost postRequest = new HttpPost("URL+Post REST API");
BASE64Encoder base=new BASE64Encoder();
String encoding = base.encode ("username:password".getBytes());
postRequest.setHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + encoding);
postRequest.setHeader("X-Atlassian-Token","nocheck");

MultipartEntityBuilder entity=MultipartEntityBuilder.create();
entity.addPart("file", new FileBody(fileUpload));
postRequest.setEntity( entity.build());
HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(postRequest);
}
}


Required JARs:

All JARs in lib folder of httpcomponents-client-4.5-bin and sun.misc.BASE64Decoder.jar

[manikandan.sabapathi]

This worked for me.. Thanks..

[Divya Srinivasan]

Hi ,

@[deleted]

I am getting internal server 500 error,as below

HttpResponseProxy{HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error [Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 14:04:46 GMT, Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true, Access-Control-Allow-Methods: POST, GET, OPTIONS, DELETE, PUT, HEAD, Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Content-Type, Content-Length: 379, Connection: close, Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1] ResponseEntityProxy{[Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1,Content-Length: 379,Chunked: false]}}

Please help.

Thanks

Divya Srinivasan

[Artis_Signature]

@Sagar Kalburgi 

I used the same code and getting response as 500 - Internal Server Error as below:

HttpResponseProxy{HTTP/1.1 500 [Server: Atlassian Proxy/1.13.6.2, Vary: Accept, Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, no-transform, Content-Type: application/xml;charset=UTF-8, Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=315360000; includeSubDomains; preload, Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:08:20 GMT, ATL-TraceId: f5f5bc636e82f862, X-AACCOUNTID: 5c4f0a271487971712d6c762, X-AREQUESTID: b2d64877-b821-47ea-934d-02a18e5f05c9, X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block, Transfer-Encoding: chunked, Timing-Allow-Origin: *, X-AUSERNAME: admin, X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff, Connection: close, Set-Cookie: atlassian.xsrf.token=727a24c6-407f-417d-abc1-dd8d50087063_7fe1286fea3d08fc055dc4441b8fffb1ec736dba_lin; Path=/; Secure] ResponseEntityProxy{[Content-Type: application/xml;charset=UTF-8,Chunked: true]}}

Can you please help me out.

Thanks,

Soujanya

[David Kuhn]

Where does @das.txt reside

[MattS]

In the same directory you ran curl from

[Paul Shin]

The password was changed for the API user. Once I tried with the new password, it works fine. Thanks.