Automatic Creation of Defect

[Rohit Singh]

Dear Atlassian's,

I am working upon a project in which i have a requirement to automatically create defects using scripting.

My question is to is there any guide which could help me to achieve the task and What all attributes exposed to user(for e.g. can i post attachments, link jira defect to other existing Jira defects.)

your views on above vital to me, please do share your thoughts.

Regards, Rohit

Rohit.Singh@egonzehnder.com

+919560553033

[Rohit Singh]

Hi Paresh,

The code below is not returning the desired result:

Unable to post defect

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Dim restReq, url

Set restReq = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")

username = "abc"

password = "xyz"

url = "http://10.0.51.30:8080/secure/Dashboard.jspa?os_username=" & username & "&os_password=" & password & ""

restReq.open "POST", url, False

restReq.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/json"

postdata = "{""fields"": { ""project"":{ ""key"": ""Orchestra Mobile"" },""summary"": ""Test Automation"", ""issuetype"": {""name"":""Task""} }}"

restReq.send postdata

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restReq.responseText shows response login/dashboard page

[Rohit Singh]

Hi Paresh,

Thanks for your valuable information. I hope this will do.

But i have concern how can i find Syntax of the 'postdata' parameters such as priority, affected version/s etc.

[Bob Swift]

JIRA Command Line Interface (CLI) is an alternative is you want to minimize development costs.

[Rohit Singh]

Thanks Bob.

This give the fair idea about Methods and Parameters but still i want to know how can i find syntax for parameters. Just want to be sure before creating automatic defects as i have to work upon live environment for test.

[Bob Swift]

The action and parameter reference is found here. Specific parameters will depend on what you want to do. A simple example is:

--action createIssue --project XXX --type Bug --summary "My summary"

I recommend creating a test project to play with so you can clean it up later.

[Rohit Singh]

I have downloaded __ cli-plugin-jira-3.9.0.obr pluggin but unable to install it.

Can you help me out.

[Bob Swift]

From these discussions, you want the JIRA Command Line Interface (CLI) client available from the Marketplate Get It Now link. Follow the installation instrucutions - Installation and Use.

[Paresh Gandhi]

You can call below code in you project.

Save below code in .vbs file and execute the vbs file accordinly. You need to further investigate how you can change parameters, add attachment etc.

You need to enable rest api in jira if not already.

Dim restReq, url
Set restReq = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
username = "<yourusername>"
password = "yourpassword>"
url = "https://jiraurl/rest/api/2/issue?os_username=" & username & "&os_password=" & password & ""
msgbox url
restReq.open "POST", url, false
restReq.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/json"
postdata = "{""fields"": { ""project"":{ ""key"": ""projectket"" },""summary"": ""Created via rest api"", ""customfield_10301"": {""name"":""it is group picker single field""} ,""priority"": {""name"":""Minor""} ,""description"": ""Created via rest api"", ""issuetype"": {""name"": ""type of issue"" }}}"
restReq.send postdata
Msgbox restReq.responseText

[Rohit Singh]

Hi Paresh,

The code below is not returning the desired result:

Unable to post defect

***********************************************************

Dim restReq, url

Set restReq = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")

username = "abc"

password = "xyz"

url = "http://10.0.51.30:8080/secure/Dashboard.jspa?os_username=" & username & "&os_password=" & password & ""

restReq.open "POST", url, False

restReq.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/json"

postdata = "{""fields"": { ""project"":{ ""key"": ""Orchestra Mobile"" },""summary"": ""Test Automation"", ""issuetype"": {""name"":""Task""} }}"

restReq.send postdata

***********************************************************

restReq.responseText shows response login/dashboard page

[Paresh Gandhi]

what is the error

[Rohit Singh]

I have not received any error but received a responseText

as screenshot below: And No defect is reported

[Rohit Singh]

ResponseText is just returning the URL response, defect is not reported.

[Paresh Gandhi]

You are using wrong URL.

change it to

url = "https://10.0.51.30:8080/rest/api/2/issue?os_username=" & username & "&os_password=" & password & ""