Update Custom Field having drop down using python

[Himanshu_Pant]

Hi Team,

I have a custom field named as Error Category (customfield_15526). It is a drop down box to select any error category from JIRA Web service.

I have written a script to update error category but getting error below.

Code

issue=jira.issue('TEST-156687')

category=['Timeout']
issue.update(fields={'customfield_15526': {'value': category[0]}})

Error

jira.exceptions.JIRAError: JiraError HTTP 400 url: https://xyz/rest/api/2/issue/4799869
text: data was not an array

response headers = {'X-AUSERNAME': 'username', 'X-AREQUESTID': '203x49518050x3', 'X-XSS-Protection': '1; mode=block', 'Content-Security-Policy': "frame-ancestors 'self'", 'X-Content-Type-Options': 'nosniff', 'Content-Encoding': 'gzip', 'Transfer-Encoding': 'chunked', 'X-Seraph-LoginReason': 'OK', 'Vary': 'User-Agent', 'X-ASESSIONID': '15t845a', 'Server': 'Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS) OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips', 'Connection': 'close', 'Cache-Control': 'no-cache, no-store, no-transform', 'Date': 'Mon, 29 Apr 2019 10:23:04 GMT', 'X-Frame-Options': 'SAMEORIGIN', 'Content-Type': 'application/json;charset=UTF-8', 'X-ASEN': 'SEN-312257'}
response text = {"errorMessages":[],"errors":{"Error Category":"data was not an array"}}

Please suggest if I am dealing wrong data type to update the column using python

[Gonchik Tsymzhitov]

What was the error?

[Himanshu_Pant]

:{"Error Category":"data was not an array"}}

Could you please suggest how can I resolve this issue ?

[Gonchik Tsymzhitov]

Is this single select type or multi select type?

And could you get the values from issue? what is the type? 

[Himanshu_Pant]

It is multi select type using ctrl or shift button.

CODE:-

issues_in_project = jira.search_issues('project = TEST AND issuetype = "Job Failure" AND status = Open AND assignee in (EMPTY,support) order by updated DESC',maxResults=100)

print issues_in_project

Result :

[<JIRA Issue: key=u'TEST-411366', id=u'6056712'>]

How can I get to know about type of custom_field ? 

[Himanshu_Pant]

@Shaun Seaver @Warren Levy Please have a look once.