Java Jira - Issues: Assign Issue

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Assigns the issue to the user. Use this resource to assign issues for the users having “Assign Issue” permission, and not having the “Edit Issue” permission. If name body parameter is set to “-1” then automatic issue assignee is used. A name set to null will remove the assignee. A successful response is indicated by a 204 status code with no response body. This example assigns issue "SCRUM-15" to "matt"

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

CURL Command

curl -X PUT --user jira@example.com:JIRA_API_TOKEN \
  --header 'Accept: application/json' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
    {
      "name": "matt"
    }' \
  --url 'https://your-domain.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/SCRUM-15/assignee'

Java Example

import com.chilkatsoft.*;

public class ChilkatExample {

  static {
    try {
        System.loadLibrary("chilkat");
    } catch (UnsatisfiedLinkError e) {
      System.err.println("Native code library failed to load.\n" + e);
      System.exit(1);
    }
  }

  public static void main(String argv[])
  {
    CkRest rest = new CkRest();
    boolean success;

    //  URL: https://your-domain.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/SCRUM-15/assignee
    boolean bTls = true;
    int port = 443;
    boolean bAutoReconnect = true;
    success = rest.Connect("your-domain.atlassian.net",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
    if (success != true) {
        System.out.println("ConnectFailReason: " + rest.get_ConnectFailReason());
        System.out.println(rest.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

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

    CkJsonObject json = new CkJsonObject();
    json.UpdateString("name","matt");

    rest.AddHeader("Content-Type","application/json");
    rest.AddHeader("Accept","application/json");

    CkStringBuilder sbRequestBody = new CkStringBuilder();
    json.EmitSb(sbRequestBody);
    CkStringBuilder sbResponseBody = new CkStringBuilder();
    success = rest.FullRequestSb("PUT","/rest/api/2/issue/SCRUM-15/assignee",sbRequestBody,sbResponseBody);
    if (success != true) {
        System.out.println(rest.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    int respStatusCode = rest.get_ResponseStatusCode();
    if (respStatusCode >= 400) {
        System.out.println("Response Status Code = " + respStatusCode);
        System.out.println("Response Header:");
        System.out.println(rest.responseHeader());
        System.out.println("Response Body:");
        System.out.println(sbResponseBody.getAsString());
        return;
        }
  }
}