Getting Error while creating the test cases using rest APIs

[Siva Barri]

While I am trying to create test cases using Rest APIs, I am getting errors.

End Point -  https://<Jira Server>/rest/api/2/issue/

Payload -

{
"fields": {
"project": {
"key": "PROJECT_KEY"
},
"parent": {
"key": "STORY_KEY"
},
"summary": "Test case summary",
"description": "Test case description",
"issuetype": {
"name": "Test"
}
}
}

Erorr:

{

    "errorMessages": [],

    "errors": {

        "issuetype": "Issue type 10300 is not a sub-task but a parent is specified."

    }

}

Can anyone please help on this issue?

[Tim Perrault]

Hi @Siva Barri 

It looks like the error message is saying the issue type Test is not a sub-task and you are trying to add a parent to it. 

Can you confirm that the Test issue type is a sub-task issue type?

[Siva Barri]

@Tim Perrault If I give like below, I am able to create a sub-task to the parent ticket.

{

  "fields": {

    "project": {

      "key": "PROJECT_KEY"

    },

    "parent": {

      "key": "STORY_KEY"

    },

    "summary": "QA Validation",

    "description": "Functional Validation",

    "issuetype": {

      "id": "5"

    }

  }

}

Question:

Do I need to create a sub-task and I need to create a test case against it?

[Tim Perrault]

So the actual problem was you were trying to attach the test issue type as a sub-task. The Test issue type is what would be considered a "parent" issue. 

I'm not totally sure what you are trying to do though. Did you create the issue types or are they included with a plugin?

[Siva Barri]

Hello @Tim Perrault , It is already there.

Can you please guide me, how to create a test case for a story in jira ? Any documentation and any example. Thanks

[Tim Perrault]

Are you using a plugin for test cases?

[Siva Barri]

Jira Zephyer, we are using to create a test cases.

Currently I am using postman for rest apis. So trying to explore options to create using Rest APIs

[Tim Perrault]

Unfortunately I'm not really familiar with that app. I've added a tag to the question to get more eyes on it.

The only thing I can think of is Link the issues instead of creating a parent / child relationship