Swift 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'

Swift Example

func chilkatTest() {
    let rest = CkoRest()
    var success: Bool

    //  URL: https://your-domain.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue
    var bTls: Bool = true
    var port: Int = 443
    var bAutoReconnect: Bool = true
    success = rest.Connect("your-domain.atlassian.net", port: port, tls: bTls, autoReconnect: bAutoReconnect)
    if success != true {
        print("ConnectFailReason: \(rest.ConnectFailReason.intValue)")
        print("\(rest.LastErrorText)")
        return
    }

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

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

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

    let sbRequestBody = CkoStringBuilder()
    json.EmitSb(sbRequestBody)
    let sbResponseBody = CkoStringBuilder()
    success = rest.FullRequestSb("POST", uriPath: "/rest/api/2/issue", requestBody: sbRequestBody, responseBody: sbResponseBody)
    if success != true {
        print("\(rest.LastErrorText)")
        return
    }

    var respStatusCode: Int = rest.ResponseStatusCode.intValue
    if respStatusCode >= 400 {
        print("Response Status Code = \(respStatusCode)")
        print("Response Header:")
        print("\(rest.ResponseHeader)")
        print("Response Body:")
        print("\(sbResponseBody.GetAsString())")
        return
    }

    let jsonResponse = CkoJsonObject()
    jsonResponse.LoadSb(sbResponseBody)

    var id: String?
    var key: String?
    var self: String?

    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"
}