Are there any Jira REST APIs that can allow the migration of issues?

[Apoorva Sharma]

Hi,

We are trying to develop an application in Forge which facilitates the issue migration i.e. the issues can be migrated from one issue type to other. 

Scenario: The user wants to migrate an issue of Task issue type to Subtask.

Can you please suggest if there are any REST APIs provided by atlassian for Jira cloud that could facilitate the same?

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Apoorva Sharma 

There are two different things you are talking about here.

1. Changing the issue type from one value to another that is at the same level; i.e. changing a Story into a Bug.

2. Changing an issue type from one value to another that is at a different level; i.e. converting a Task to a Subtask or a Subtask to a Task.

For #1 you would use the rest/<ver>/issue/<issueKey> endpoint to set the issuetype field.

PUT https://<instancename>.atlassian.net/rest/3/issue/<issueKey> 
{
"fields": {"issuetype":{"id":10002}}
}

For #2 there is an open change request:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-27893