PowerShell 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'

PowerShell Example

[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("C:\myAssemblies\ChilkatDotNet2.dll")

$rest = New-Object Chilkat.Rest

#  URL: https://your-domain.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/SCRUM-13
$bTls = $true
$port = 443
$bAutoReconnect = $true
$success = $rest.Connect("your-domain.atlassian.net",$port,$bTls,$bAutoReconnect)
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $("ConnectFailReason: " + $rest.ConnectFailReason)
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

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

$rest.AddHeader("Accept","application/json")

$sbResponseBody = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$success = $rest.FullRequestNoBodySb("DELETE","/rest/api/2/issue/SCRUM-13",$sbResponseBody)
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$respStatusCode = $rest.ResponseStatusCode
if ($respStatusCode -ge 400) {
    $("Response Status Code = " + $respStatusCode)
    $("Response Header:")
    $($rest.ResponseHeader)
    $("Response Body:")
    $($sbResponseBody.GetAsString())
    exit
}

$jsonResponse = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$jsonResponse.LoadSb($sbResponseBody)

$i = 0
$count_i = $jsonResponse.SizeOfArray("errorMessages")
while ($i -lt $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": {}
}