Ruby Jira - Issues: Create Issue

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Creates an issue or a sub-task from a JSON representation.

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

CURL Command

curl -X POST --user jira@example.com:JIRA_API_TOKEN \
  --header 'Accept: application/json' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
    {
      "fields": {
        "project": {
          "id": "10000"
        },
        "summary": "something is wrong",
        "issuetype": {
          "id": "10000"
        },
        "assignee": {
          "name": "matt"
        },
        "priority": {
          "id": "3"
        },
        "labels": [
          "bugfix",
          "blitz_test"
        ],
        "description": "description",
        "fixVersions": [
          {
            "id": "10001"
          }
        ],
        "customfield_10005": "blah blah"
      }
    }' \
  --url 'https://your-domain.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue'

Ruby Example

require 'chilkat'

rest = Chilkat::CkRest.new()

#  URL: https://your-domain.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue
bTls = true
port = 443
bAutoReconnect = true
success = rest.Connect("your-domain.atlassian.net",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
if (success != true)
    print "ConnectFailReason: " + rest.get_ConnectFailReason().to_s() + "\n";
    print rest.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

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

json = Chilkat::CkJsonObject.new()
json.UpdateString("fields.project.id","10000")
json.UpdateString("fields.summary","something is wrong")
json.UpdateString("fields.issuetype.id","10000")
json.UpdateString("fields.assignee.name","matt")
json.UpdateString("fields.priority.id","3")
json.UpdateString("fields.labels[0]","bugfix")
json.UpdateString("fields.labels[1]","blitz_test")
json.UpdateString("fields.description","description")
json.UpdateString("fields.fixVersions[0].id","10001")
json.UpdateString("fields.customfield_10005","blah blah")

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

sbRequestBody = Chilkat::CkStringBuilder.new()
json.EmitSb(sbRequestBody)
sbResponseBody = Chilkat::CkStringBuilder.new()
success = rest.FullRequestSb("POST","/rest/api/2/issue",sbRequestBody,sbResponseBody)
if (success != true)
    print rest.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

respStatusCode = rest.get_ResponseStatusCode()
if (respStatusCode >= 400)
    print "Response Status Code = " + respStatusCode.to_s() + "\n";
    print "Response Header:" + "\n";
    print rest.responseHeader() + "\n";
    print "Response Body:" + "\n";
    print sbResponseBody.getAsString() + "\n";
    exit
end

jsonResponse = Chilkat::CkJsonObject.new()
jsonResponse.LoadSb(sbResponseBody)

id = jsonResponse.stringOf("id")
key = jsonResponse.stringOf("key")
self = jsonResponse.stringOf("self")

Sample JSON Response Body

{
  "id": "10023",
  "key": "SCRUM-24",
  "self": "https://chilkat.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/10023"
}