i am trying to update description of issue while creating ticket via api , its not updating

[Abhinav Jha]

Hi 
While creating a jira issue via rest api the description field is not getting updated .

payload = {

                "project": {

                    "id": project_id

                },

                "issuetype": {

                    "id": issue_type_id

                },

                # "customfield_10010": "itvendor/requestchange",

                # "customfield_10010": "Request a change",

                # "requestTypeId": request_type,

                "summary": summary,

                "description": {

                    "version": 1,

                    "type": "doc",

                    "content": [{

                        "type": "paragraph",

                        "content": [{

                            "type": "text",

                            "text": description

                        }]

                    }],

                },

            }

i am using this payload , any help or suggestions are much appriciated.

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Abhinav Jha 

Please use this guide https://support.atlassian.com/cloud-automation/docs/advanced-field-editing-using-json/ to create your JSON. I would expect the description to have a JSON similar to:

"description": "A description is many lines of text\n separated by\n line feeds"

[Abhinav Jha]

this format is giving
{u'errorMessages': [u'Invalid request payload. Refer to the REST API documentation and try again.']}

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

@Abhinav Jha are you using postman or you are trying to update via automation rule?

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

Please see this endpoint here https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-issues/#api-rest-api-3-issue-issueidorkey-put

[Abhinav Jha]

@nurac thanks it worked 

just wondering why its not updating at the time of issue creation