Question

I am working with the Jira SOAP API, and I have managed to read from an issue and to create new issues. However, I am having trouble with updating the fields of an already existing issue. I make changes to the fields, but they do not persist after the program stops running.

I know that the method to use is likely the updateIssue(…) method, but I haven’t been able to attempt using it, as I don’t know what to pass for the last parameter. I looked at the documentation, but don’t understand what the RemoteFieldValue[] is.

Can someone please tell me how I could create a RemoteFieldValue[] that I could pass to the updateIssue method in order to update basic fields like summary, description, etc.?

Thanks!

Answer 1

To update basic fields using Jira SOAP you need to use updateIssue() (as you suspected).

updateIssue(java.lang.String token, java.lang.String issueKey, RemoteFieldValue[] actionParams) 

RemoteFieldValue constructor takes two parameters: fieldID and newFieldValues

public RemoteFieldValue(java.lang.String fieldID,
                        java.lang.String[] newFieldValues)

Where fieldID for standard fields is a name of the field (“summary”, “description”, etc.)

Here is an example:

List<RemoteFieldValue> actionParams = new List<RemoteFieldValue>();

RemoteFieldValue description = new RemoteFieldValue { 
    id = "description", 
    values = new string[] { "here is new description" } };

actionParams.Add(description);

jiraSoapService.updateIssue(token, issueKey, actionParams.ToArray());