Getting 500 error while making GET call to Jira using HttpURLConnection, works fine in postman

[Abhay]

Hi everyone,

I am trying to make a GET call to Jira URL in Java using HttpURLConnection - getting 500 server error

If I make same call using postman - it works.

String url = "https://jira.mydomain.com/rest/raven/2.0/api/testrun/?testExecIssueKey=T22&testIssueKey=T2;
URL obj = new URL(url);
HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) obj.openConnection();
String basicAuth = "Basic :" + new String(Base64.getEncoder().encode(credentials.getBytes()));

con.setRequestProperty ("Authorization", basicAuth);
con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
con.setRequestMethod("GET");
int responseCode = con.getResponseCode();
System.out.println(responseCode);

Can someone please help and see whats going wrong? 

[Hana Kučerová · Accepted solution]

Hi @abhay99 ,

welcome to the Atlassian community!

What seems suspicious in your code to me:

1)

String url = "https://jira.mydomain.com/rest/raven/2.0/api/testrun/?testExecIssueKey=T22&testIssueKey=T2;

Possible missing double-quote in the end of the line?

String url = "https://jira.mydomain.com/rest/raven/2.0/api/testrun/?testExecIssueKey=T22&testIssueKey=T2";

 2)

String basicAuth = "Basic :" + new String(Base64.getEncoder().encode(credentials.getBytes()));

There should't be : after word Basic

String basicAuth = "Basic " + new String(Base64.getEncoder().encode(credentials.getBytes()));

[Abhay]

Thanks for your response. 1st pointer was a typo and 2nd pointer did the trick, it works now. Very weird that for this reason I was getting 500 error, should have got 401 instead. Anyway, it works now. Thanks.