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Has anyone ever tried to use Atlassian's rest api from Mathematica? I'd love an example of a post request to create a ticket with specific properties.

With cURL, it's easy:

curl -D- -u [username] -p -X POST --data @[pathToJson] -H \"Content\
Type: application/json\" https://[YourCompany].atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/

But I'm not sure how to do it with URLFetch.

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  • $\begingroup$ After scanning your link it looks like it should be straight forward using URLFetch. You would have to use your JSON data in the "Body" option. What have you tried so far? (related REST API usage examples: mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/40731/…) $\endgroup$ Commented Jan 6, 2016 at 0:15
  • $\begingroup$ You can create the JSON data as nested lists of rules and then use ExportString to convert to JSON then add that to URLFetch. I don't have access to a JIRA to try but can write a conceptual answer for you to try if you like. I'll be away for 4-5 hours but when I get back $\endgroup$ Commented Jan 6, 2016 at 0:20
  • $\begingroup$ @MikeHoneychurch thanks! $\endgroup$ Commented Jan 6, 2016 at 5:13

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Using the first example in the link to the JIRA API.

create your data in Mathematica:

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"}
    }
  }

convert the Mathematica data to JSON:

jsondata = ExportString[data, "JSON"]

(* {
    "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"
        }
    }
} *)

Now post the data to the URL:

URLFetch["http://localhost:8090/rest/api/2/issue/",
 "Method" -> "POST",
 "Headers" -> {"Content-Type" -> "application/json"},
 "Username" -> "fred",
 "Password" -> "fred",
 "Body" -> jsondata
 ]
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  • $\begingroup$ Authentication works, and I set my project key correctly, but I'm getting this error message: "{\"errorMessages\":[],\"errors\":{\"summary\":\"Field 'summary' \ cannot be set. It is not on the appropriate screen, or \ unknown.\",\"description\":\"Field 'description' cannot be set. It is \ not on the appropriate screen, or unknown.\"}}" $\endgroup$ Commented Jan 6, 2016 at 22:18
  • $\begingroup$ I looked this up in a jira forum, they say: "The HTTP Basic Session Cookie just need to be preemptive: httpRequest.addHeader(new BasicScheme().authenticate(new UsernamePasswordCredentials("username","password"), httpRequest)); Jira says its a JSON format problem, but it is a auth-error. Hope it helps other people." $\endgroup$ Commented Jan 6, 2016 at 22:19
  • $\begingroup$ @M.R. did you run the example in the answer or did you sub your own data in? It looks like the later and if that is the case you may be using fields that are not spelled correctly or do not exist. Can you confirm that the API examples work? $\endgroup$ Commented Jan 6, 2016 at 22:22
  • $\begingroup$ @M.R. you can use cookies with URLFetch. see the docs examples. $\endgroup$ Commented Jan 6, 2016 at 22:23
  • $\begingroup$ I ran the same data only switching the key, everything else works with curl the fields "summary", "description", "issuetype" are all standard and work when I use the @[json file path] in the curl command. Doing a RunProcess@StringSplit on the curl command string works, it's an issue with URLFetch, and I don't know how to use the cookies option here either. $\endgroup$ Commented Jan 7, 2016 at 3:40

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