How to find actor details in jira environment?

[Nageswara Rao Koppisetti]

Hi All,

I have to update issue status using jira rest services below request payload.

{
    "update": {
        "comment": [
            {
                "add": {
                    "body": "Bug has been fixed."
                }
            }
        ]
    },
    "fields": {
        "assignee": {
            "name": "bob"
        },
        "resolution": {
            "name": "Fixed"
        }
    },
    "transition": {
        "id": "5"
    },
    "historyMetadata": {
        "type": "myplugin:type",
        "description": "text description",
        "descriptionKey": "plugin.changereason.i18.key",
        "activityDescription": "text description",
        "activityDescriptionKey": "plugin.activity.i18.key",
        "actor": {
            "id": "tony",
            "displayName": "Tony",
            "type": "mysystem-user",
            "avatarUrl": "http://mysystem/avatar/tony.jpg",
            "url": "http://mysystem/users/tony"
        },
        "generator": {
            "id": "mysystem-1",
            "type": "mysystem-application"
        },
        "cause": {
            "id": "myevent",
            "type": "mysystem-event"
        },
        "extraData": {
            "keyvalue": "extra data",
            "goes": "here"
        }
    }}

In actor tag i have to provide details for actor.how to find actor details in my jira system.

Could you please help.

I  have one more quick question 

what is generator ,cause,extraData details in above request payload.

[Alexey Matveev]

Hello,

The actor is the user under whom you perform the rest call. Description of generator, cause, extraData you can find here:

https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/7.6.1/com/atlassian/jira/issue/changehistory/metadata/HistoryMetadata.html

Do not fill the historyMetadata part. It must work fine without it.

[Nageswara Rao Koppisetti]

Thank you Alexey Matveev,

In request payload trasition id is sending like this 

"transition": {
"id": "3"
},

getting below error:

{
"errorMessages": [
"Transition id '3' is not valid for this issue."
],

I have opened workflow.In my instance i could find any transition id.please find attached screen .where i can get this transition id.

please find attached workflow screen.

[Alexey Matveev]

Go to the text tab (not Diagram). You will see numbers near transitions. That would be the transition (action) id.

[Alexey Matveev]

You can pass only those fields, which are present on the screen, which you defined for the transaction. I guess, your transaction does not have any screen. That is why omit the fields.

[Nageswara Rao Koppisetti]

I got  transition id .I am getting below error.

Could you please help me on this.

And provide me any simplified request payload for json.

{
"errorMessages": [],
"errors": {
"resolution": "Field 'resolution' cannot be set. It is not on the appropriate screen, or unknown.",
"assignee": "Field 'assignee' cannot be set. It is not on the appropriate screen, or unknown."
}
}

[Tarun Sapra]

Hello @Nageswara Rao Koppisetti

As @Alexey Matveev shared in his response , you can only submit the fields which are part of the transition screen for a particular transition. In your case the transition id is 3 and for this transition you have to check if the transition screen exists and if it doesn't then you should not enter the field values. From the docs

 If a field is not configured to appear on the transition screen, then it will not be in the transition metadata, and a field validation error will occur if it is submitted.