Issue type in the post /issue api

[Mansi Gusain]

Hi, I wanted to create an issue using postman using this api - 

https://name.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue

so as per the documentation lot of fields are there- 

The Jira Cloud platform REST API

But the issue type is confusing me . How to add the issue type?

{

  "fields": {

    "assignee": {

      "id": "712020:6d4ed947-e444-4b19-a16d-caee6b51d4c8"

    },

    "parent": {

      "key": "MANSI"

    },

  "project": {

      "id": "10001"

    },

"summary": "Main order flow broken",

 "issuetype": {

      "id": "10000"  ------->this how to define this failing for all values

    }

}}

I used the /createMeta also to get the issue type but it does not fix the issue 

[Mahesh Shinde · Accepted solution]

Hi @Mansi Gusain ,

The error is related to parent field in REST API, have you used that one in your request?

For more details, you can refer this article: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/developer/creating-a-jira-cloud-issue-in-a-single-rest-call

Let me know if you still  having issues.

Regards,

Mahesh Shinde

[Mansi Gusain]

Hi thanks for this article I was able to use the following body - 

{"fields": {

        "summary": "Summit 2019 is awesome!",

        "issuetype": {

            "name": "Task"

        },

        "project": {

            "key": "MANSI"

        },

        "description": {

            "type": "doc",

            "version": 1,

            "content": [

                {

                "type": "paragraph",

                "content": [

                    {

                    "text": "This is the description.",

                    "type": "text"

                    }

                ]

                }

            ]

        }

    }

}

[Mansi Gusain]

Hi what are the names I can give to the api -

1. Task works 

but not the bug or story...

[Vishal Biyani]

@Mansi Gusain 

Your parent key should be like MANSI-123 etc

  "parent": {

      "key": "MANSI"

    },

Can you check this?

[Mansi Gusain]

Hi, the parent key is MANSI only, I checked it. 

[Vishal Biyani]

As you are creating Story or Task, parent key needs to be Epic. 

It is not possible that Epic will have key = MANSI.

[Mansi Gusain]

okay Vishal please correct me if I am wrong, I can create tasks directly in the project but to create a bug, story I need epic?

See this is the operation - 

So I am able to create the task 

[Mansi Gusain]

Okay I got the answer, on the main UI of the project I have the feature to create the issue types- 

So now can use the api to create different types of issues for me. 

Thankyou both for your help and prompt replies. Kudos to the support team. Thanks!!!

[Mahesh Shinde]

Hi @Mansi Gusain

Welcome to Atlassian community!

As per the REST API call for create issue,

You have to use the field like as below:

"issuetype": { "id": "<number>" }

You can get the issuetype ID details from admin section of Jira.

Please, let me know if you have any questions.

Regards,

Mahesh Shinde

[Mansi Gusain]

Hi thankyou for replying, the so I went to the admin section there the id was 10004 

Now from here I add it to the id in the body for issue- 

[Mansi Gusain]

[Mahesh Shinde]

Hi @Mansi Gusain

Parent field is required if you are creating subtask issue for parent issue, you can remove it.

Regards,

Mahesh Shinde