Creating JIRA issue using curl from command line

Question

I've been through documentation here according to which I'm creating a issue for JIRA . I know I'm making some terribly small mistake . I'm trying to create a new JIRA request from command line (later I'll integrate in my java code) From my Mac terminal I'm trying to run :

    curl -D- -u username:password -X POST --data {"fields":{"project":{"key": “PROJECTKEY"},"summary": "REST ye merry gentlemen.","description": "Creating of an issue using project keys and issue type names using the REST API","issuetype": {"name": "Bug"}}} -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://mycompanyname.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/

I believe this has something to do with the "data". Thanks in advance. The example has been taken from the documentation link itself.

OUTPUT : I'm getting nothing in my terminal, no error, no expected output .

PROJECTKEY is taken from the KEY column from the All Project list in my DASHBOARD.

you need to put your posted data in single quotes

guido
– guido

2015-06-25 14:09:34 +00:00
Commented Jun 25, 2015 at 14:09 — guido
– guido, Commented Jun 25, 2015 at 14:09
Can you give me a example? Thanks in advance..

lazy rabbit
– lazy rabbit

2015-06-25 14:11:34 +00:00
Commented Jun 25, 2015 at 14:11 — lazy rabbit
– lazy rabbit, Commented Jun 25, 2015 at 14:11
--data '{"fields": ....... }'

guido
– guido

2015-06-25 14:12:09 +00:00
Commented Jun 25, 2015 at 14:12 — guido
– guido, Commented Jun 25, 2015 at 14:12

Hans Z. · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-25 14:17:49Z

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Two things are off:

you need to put the data that you want to post in quotes
the first double quote surrounding PROJECT_KEY is a unicode character instead of a regular double quote, so change “PROJECTKEY" to "PROJECTKEY"

This should work:

curl -D- -u username:password -X POST --data '{"fields":{"project":{"key": "PROJECTKEY"},"summary": "REST ye merry gentlemen.","description": "Creating of an issue using project keys and issue type names using the REST API","issuetype": {"name": "Bug"}}}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://mycompanyname.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/

answered Jun 25, 2015 at 14:17

Hans Z.

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lazy rabbit Over a year ago

Z That was probably a mistake thanks.. But now I'm getting a error : {"errorMessages":["Version Found: Version Found is required."],"errors":{}} any help on this plss ??

Yash Over a year ago

This works for me. JIRA is created but i do not get the JIRA number (ID) in the logs. Please let me know if i'm missing anything.

Yash Over a year ago

Essentially, i want to store the JIRA number in a variable which can be used in the scripts for other purposes.

Yash Over a year ago

Above syntax was working fine for me but suddenly I've started getting this error message: curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched close brace/bracket in column 202. What am i mssing?

rsaw Over a year ago

@Yash Try using curl's -g or --globoff option. Check the man page.

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