C Jira - Issues: Delete an Issue

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Deletes an issue. This example deletes the issue having key = "SCRUM-13". A successful delete is indicated by a response status code equal to 204 with an empty response body. This example demonstrates one possible JSON error response (where the response status code was 403).

Documentation: https://developers.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/#api-api-2-issue-issueIdOrKey-delete

CURL Command

curl -X DELETE --user jira@example.com:JIRA_API_TOKEN \
  --header 'Accept: application/json' \
  --url 'https://your-domain.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/SCRUM-13'

C Example

#include <C_CkRest.h>
#include <C_CkStringBuilder.h>
#include <C_CkJsonObject.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    HCkRest rest;
    BOOL success;
    BOOL bTls;
    int port;
    BOOL bAutoReconnect;
    HCkStringBuilder sbResponseBody;
    int respStatusCode;
    HCkJsonObject jsonResponse;
    int i;
    int count_i;
    const char *strVal;

    rest = CkRest_Create();

    //  URL: https://your-domain.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/SCRUM-13
    bTls = TRUE;
    port = 443;
    bAutoReconnect = TRUE;
    success = CkRest_Connect(rest,"your-domain.atlassian.net",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
    if (success != TRUE) {
        printf("ConnectFailReason: %d\n",CkRest_getConnectFailReason(rest));
        printf("%s\n",CkRest_lastErrorText(rest));
        CkRest_Dispose(rest);
        return;
    }

    CkRest_SetAuthBasic(rest,"jira@example.com","JIRA_API_TOKEN");

    CkRest_AddHeader(rest,"Accept","application/json");

    sbResponseBody = CkStringBuilder_Create();
    success = CkRest_FullRequestNoBodySb(rest,"DELETE","/rest/api/2/issue/SCRUM-13",sbResponseBody);
    if (success != TRUE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkRest_lastErrorText(rest));
        CkRest_Dispose(rest);
        CkStringBuilder_Dispose(sbResponseBody);
        return;
    }

    respStatusCode = CkRest_getResponseStatusCode(rest);
    if (respStatusCode >= 400) {
        printf("Response Status Code = %d\n",respStatusCode);
        printf("Response Header:\n");
        printf("%s\n",CkRest_responseHeader(rest));
        printf("Response Body:\n");
        printf("%s\n",CkStringBuilder_getAsString(sbResponseBody));
        CkRest_Dispose(rest);
        CkStringBuilder_Dispose(sbResponseBody);
        return;
    }

    jsonResponse = CkJsonObject_Create();
    CkJsonObject_LoadSb(jsonResponse,sbResponseBody);

    i = 0;
    count_i = CkJsonObject_SizeOfArray(jsonResponse,"errorMessages");
    while (i < count_i) {
        CkJsonObject_putI(jsonResponse,i);
        strVal = CkJsonObject_stringOf(jsonResponse,"errorMessages[i]");
        i = i + 1;
    }



    CkRest_Dispose(rest);
    CkStringBuilder_Dispose(sbResponseBody);
    CkJsonObject_Dispose(jsonResponse);

    }

Sample JSON Response Body

{
  "errorMessages": [
    "You do not have permission to delete issues in this project."
  ],
  "errors": {}
}