PHP 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'

PHP ActiveX Example

<?php

$rest = new COM("Chilkat_9_5_0.Rest");

//  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) {
    print 'ConnectFailReason: ' . $rest->ConnectFailReason . "\n";
    print $rest->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

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

$rest->AddHeader('Accept','application/json');

$sbResponseBody = new COM("Chilkat_9_5_0.StringBuilder");
$success = $rest->FullRequestNoBodySb('DELETE','/rest/api/2/issue/SCRUM-13',$sbResponseBody);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

$respStatusCode = $rest->ResponseStatusCode;
if ($respStatusCode >= 400) {
    print 'Response Status Code = ' . $respStatusCode . "\n";
    print 'Response Header:' . "\n";
    print $rest->ResponseHeader . "\n";
    print 'Response Body:' . "\n";
    print $sbResponseBody->getAsString() . "\n";
    exit;
}

$jsonResponse = new COM("Chilkat_9_5_0.JsonObject");
$jsonResponse->LoadSb($sbResponseBody);

$i = 0;
$count_i = $jsonResponse->SizeOfArray('errorMessages');
while ($i < $count_i) {
    $jsonResponse->I = $i;
    $strVal = $jsonResponse->stringOf('errorMessages[i]');
    $i = $i + 1;
}


?>

Sample JSON Response Body

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