How to use the Jira CLI with custom fields?

[Timothy Hutt]

I'm trying to use the Jira CLI to create an issue, but we have a custom field "Variant" that can be a list of tags.

Unfortunately whatever I try, the CLI gives a VERY uninformative message:

"additionalAttributes": {

"customfield_10319": {

"value": "Common"

}

},

Gives "✗ Error: Specify the value for Variant in an array"

Ok 

"additionalAttributes": {

"customfield_10319": {

"value": ["Common"]

}

},

Gives exactly the same error. What about this?

"additionalAttributes": {
"customfield_10319": [{
"value": "Common"
}]
},

This gives "✗ Error: failed to generate JSON"

Where is the documentation for this? Where is the JSON schema?

(Sorry for the bad code formatting; this input widget sucks.)

[Samuel Weiss]

Hi @Timothy Hutt 

Have you tried to fetch a sample work item using API "/rest/api/3/issue/{issueIdOrKey}" so that you see how the data looks like?

Kind regards,
Samuel