Create an Issue with Jira API REST

Question

When I try to create an Issue via the Jira API REST, I get a 500 Internal server error, I succeeded to get an issue from a project with a get-request but when I try the post-request to create a new issue it doesn't work I get the error.

Here is my JavaScript code :

createIssue: function(req, res) {
  var Http = require('machinepack-http');
  process.env.NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED = "0";
  Http.sendHttpRequest({
    url: '/rest/api/2/issue/',
    baseUrl: 'https://jira.mydomain.com',
    method: 'post',
    data: {
      "fields": {
        "project": {
          "key": "TEST"
        },
        "summary": "REST ye merry gentlemen.",
        "description": "Creating of an issue using project keys and issue type names using the REST API",
        "issuetype": {
          "name": "Bug"
        }
      }
    },
    headers: {
      "Authorization": "Basic YWxbG9wMS4zp0bWFuzeThYS5l1TIqaXoxOTg5554Jh"
    },
  }).exec({
    serverError: function(result) {
      res.send("server error" + JSON.stringify(result))
    },
    success: function(result) {
      res.send("issue has been created succefly");
    },
  });
}

Error content :

{
    "body": "{\"errorMessages\":[\"Internal server error\"],\"errors\":{}}",
    "headers": "{\"server\":\"nginx/1.6.0\",\"date\":\"Tue, 14 Apr 2015 13:45:38 GMT\",\"content-type\":\"application/json;charset=UTF-8\",\"transfer-encoding\":\"chunked\",\"connection\":\"close\",\"x-arequestid\":\"945x246734x1\",\"set-cookie\":[\"JSESSIONID=838923A79DA31F77BDD62510399065CF; Path=/; HttpOnly\",\"atlassian.xsrf.token=BQIV-TVLW-FGBG-OTYU|63c1b4a7b87a9367fff6185f0101c415f757e85b|lin; Path=/\"],\"x-seraph-loginreason\":\"OK\",\"x-asessionid\":\"ughpoh\",\"x-ausername\":\"alaa\",\"cache-control\":\"no-cache, no-store, no-transform\",\"x-content-type-options\":\"nosniff\"}",
    "status": 500
}

You get a 500 error from the Jira api or from your sails service? And was is the actual error content? — Meeker
Well, you found a weaknes, now you can hack it ;-) seriously though, check your server logs to see what the error is or turn error reporting to weboutput on. Error 500 is pretty non descript. It's saying we had a critical erro but we're not telling what. The message will be hidden in your server logs what is actually wrong. — Tschallacka
I tried the same thing with a cURL-request, I've got the same 500 server error, I have the admin previleges I can create an issue directly via the Jira App but impossible via its REST API, I do not have access to the server logs. — Alaa-GI
@Alaa-GI - if you're hosting jira on your own you'll find the logs in your $JIRA_HOME/log-directory. If you're using the hosted jira, you might need to open a support-ticket: answers.atlassian.com/questions/112862/… — Florian Neumann
Thank you, Here is the error in the Jira log file: Java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor3962.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at com.atlassian.plugins.rest.common.interceptor.impl.DispatchProviderHelper$ResponseOutInvoker$1.invoke(DispatchProviderHelper.java:234... well it's a very long error — Alaa-GI

Aditya Singh Aditya Singh · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-17T11:14:25

Use `params` instead of `data`

JS:-

createIssue: function(req, res) {
  var Http = require('machinepack-http');
  process.env.NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED = "0";
  Http.sendHttpRequest({
    url: '/rest/api/2/issue/',
    baseUrl: 'https://jira.mydomain.com',
    method: 'post',
    params: {
      "fields": {
        "project": {
          "key": "TASC"
        },
        "summary": "REST ye merry gentlemen.",
        "description": "Creating of an issue using project keys and issue type names using the REST API",
        "issuetype": {
          "name": "Bug"
        }
      }
    },
    headers: {
      "Authorization": "Basic YWxbG9wMS4zp0bWFuzeThYS5l1TIqaXoxOTg5554Jh"
    },
  }).exec({
    serverError: function(result) {
      res.send("server error" + JSON.stringify(result))
    },
    success: function(result) {
      res.send("issue has been created succefly");
    },
  });
}

Reference

Create an Issue with Jira API REST

2 Answers

Use params instead of data

Use `params` instead of `data`