Delphi ActiveX 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'

Delphi ActiveX Example

var
rest: TChilkatRest;
success: Integer;
bTls: Integer;
port: Integer;
bAutoReconnect: Integer;
sbResponseBody: TChilkatStringBuilder;
respStatusCode: Integer;
jsonResponse: TChilkatJsonObject;
i: Integer;
count_i: Integer;
strVal: WideString;

begin
rest := TChilkatRest.Create(Self);

//  URL: https://your-domain.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/SCRUM-13
bTls := 1;
port := 443;
bAutoReconnect := 1;
success := rest.Connect('your-domain.atlassian.net',port,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
if (success <> 1) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add('ConnectFailReason: ' + IntToStr(rest.ConnectFailReason));
    Memo1.Lines.Add(rest.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

rest.SetAuthBasic('jira@example.com','JIRA_API_TOKEN');

rest.AddHeader('Accept','application/json');

sbResponseBody := TChilkatStringBuilder.Create(Self);
success := rest.FullRequestNoBodySb('DELETE','/rest/api/2/issue/SCRUM-13',sbResponseBody.ControlInterface);
if (success <> 1) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(rest.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;
respStatusCode := rest.ResponseStatusCode;
if (respStatusCode >= 400) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add('Response Status Code = ' + IntToStr(respStatusCode));
    Memo1.Lines.Add('Response Header:');
    Memo1.Lines.Add(rest.ResponseHeader);
    Memo1.Lines.Add('Response Body:');
    Memo1.Lines.Add(sbResponseBody.GetAsString());
    Exit;
  end;

jsonResponse := TChilkatJsonObject.Create(Self);
jsonResponse.LoadSb(sbResponseBody.ControlInterface);

i := 0;
count_i := jsonResponse.SizeOfArray('errorMessages');
while i < count_i do
  begin
    jsonResponse.I := i;
    strVal := jsonResponse.StringOf('errorMessages[i]');
    i := i + 1;
  end;

Sample JSON Response Body

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