Retrieving and Updating an issue's status via the rest API

[Samuel Kwok]

Hello,

I want to retrieve, and update the execution status of a Test Execution in JIRA using REST API.  My Jira and Xray are hosting in Jira Cloud.

Could you point me to a working example how to do that.  I am looking at https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v2/

I am using POSTMAN to compose and send the Request to mydomain.atlassian.net.

There are 14 Passed, 1 Failed in the Test Execution  (TEST-key123)

1. I can only do a GET https://mydomain.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/TEST-Key123   with Status:200K

2. I can not filter the status=FAILED.  The response is the same at item 1.  Is this filter correct?

GET https://mydomain.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/TEST-Key123?filter=status=FAILED

3. How can I do a POST to update the status of the FAILED to move it back to TODO.

POST https://mydomain.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/TEST-Key123  

Helps are greatly appreciate.

Thanks

Sam

[Doug Swartz]

For your "can't filter": Get Issue is not used to get a list of issues.  You will need to do a "Get Issue Picker Suggestions" request with the JQL or filter information. This returns a list of issue IDs. Then issue the Get issue on each issue.

Statuses are different from other fields. To change a status, you need to issue send a Transition Issue message.

[Jenkins Auto]

Hi Doug, 

I used JQL which lets me filter out just the FAILED ones. Correct me if I am wrong, JQL seems to just do query, but not update. 

But I still can not figure out how to change a status for my Test Execution. 

Would you point me to any examples to do the update using JQL.

Thanks again

Sam.

[Marty]

Hi Sam,

I am not on the Jira Team, but I will try to help.

I suspect that you need to url encode the filter query, so something like 

https://mydomain.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/TEST-Key123?filter=status%3DFAILED

I hope that helps!

[Jenkins Auto]

Thanks Martyn. When I copy the URL to the Browser from POSTMAN, it will add the URL encoding. 

I can only retrieve my issue (Type: Test Execution) as a whole. But the filter part still does not work.   I used JQL which lets me filter out just the FAILED ones.