Need an example for Add User to Group function in JIRA REST API 6.1

[Malintha Amarasinghe]

I am developing an application that uses the JIRA 6.1 REST API. Can I know a sample JSON Object that I should use, to add a user to a given group in JIRA?

This is the relevant API call: https://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/latest/#d2e1694

[Andrew Fisher · Accepted solution]

I used a little trial and error (I guess this part of the API is currently experimental), but got it to work ok. My python code uses a post request (per the docs), passing in the groupname as a uri parameter, and the username inside the post request's json payload (but using the key "name"), e.g.

payload = json.dumps({"name":"myusername"});
r = requests.post(api_path + "group/user?groupname=inactive-users", headers=myheaders, data=payload, auth=myauth)

If anyone has any thoughts about the experimental nature of this particular post call (e.g. whether it's likely to change etc), I'd be interested.

[Todd Beverly]

Confirmed that it works.

I tried "user", "users" and "username" but I didn't try "name" for the key.

Many thanks Andrew!

[JamesT]

There was a similar question posted on StackOverflow, but the original answer there was about creating a user, not adding a user to a group.  I took the info here and the post from there, and combined it into a one-liner that does the job, at least for me:

curl --insecure -D- -u admin:password -X POST --data "{\"name\": \"username\"}" -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://myjiraserver.com/rest/api/2/group/user?groupname=mygroupname

1. Replace password with the actual admin password.
2. Replace username with the name of the user you're adding to the group.
3. Replace myjiraserver.com with your JIRA server's FQDN.
4. Replace mygroupname with the name of the group to which you are adding this user.

I added the --insecure option because of the private SSL certs used on my server. You may not need that, or you may not be using HTTPS at all (in which case edit the URL to use HTTP).

[Treethawat Thanawachiramate]

Hi Andrew,

Do you have an example for groovy?

Thanks,

Man

[JasonMuscat]

Thanks a bunch for this. Just killed a whole morning trying to figure this out.

[Andrew DeFaria]

Yeah why is the documentation for this so bad?