Tagging/mentioning a user via rest API

[Benny Horowitz]

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[Pramodh M]

Hi @Benny Horowitz 

Here's a reference link that will help you

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/Rest-API-v3-Add-Mention-to-Comment/qaq-p/1213708

Syntax is similar to the one which is used in cloud

Thanks,
Pramodh

[Benny Horowitz]

@Pramodh M 

First of all i said v2 not v3 .  I use v2 and the question seems to talk about v3.

Secondly, of course i tried it .  I even posted something quite similar in the question it doesnt work at all. I tried everything i saw on the internt  .

Thirdly as mentioned in the question in our self hosted jira we dont have IDs for users.

When trying something like this as in the page you reffered me :

payload = json.dumps({

  "body": {

    "type": "mention",

    "attrs": {

      "text": "@my name",

      "userType": "APP"

    }

  }

})

I get the same  error: 

'"errorMessages": [

        "Can not deserialize instance of java.'