Question

I would like to be able to update an issue in Jira v5.1 from a Python script using the REST api. I have the following piece of code to extract the information of an existing issue, which works perfectly:

import urllib2
import urllib
import cookielib
import json

serverURL = 'http://jiraserver.com'

# Get the authentication cookie using the REST API
cj = cookielib.CookieJar()
opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj))
authURL = serverURL + '/rest/auth/latest/session'
creds = {'username' : jirauser, 'password' : passwd}
req = urllib2.Request(authURL)
req.add_data(json.dumps(creds))
req.add_header("Content-type", "application/json")
req.add_header("Accept", "application/json")
fp = opener.open(req)
fp.close()

queryURL = serverURL + '/rest/api/latest/issue/SANDBOX-150'
req = urllib2.Request(queryURL)
req.add_header("Content-type", "application/json")
req.add_header("Accept", "application/json")
fp = opener.open(req)
data = json.load(fp)
fp.close()

I would like to extend this to be able to update the same issue, and I have the following piece of code:

queryURL = serverURL + '/rest/api/latest/issue/SANDBOX-150'

issueUpdate =  {
    'update': {
        'comment': [
            {
                'add': {
                    'body': 'this is a comment'
                }
            }
        ]  
    }
}
req = urllib2.Request(queryURL)
req.add_data(json.dumps(issueUpdate))
req.add_header("Content-type", "application/json")
req.add_header("Accept", "application/json")
fp = opener.open(req)
fp.close()

When I try to execute the code, I get the following error message:

File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 397, in open
response = meth(req, response)
    File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 510, in http_response
        'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)

    File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 435, in error
        return self._call_chain(*args)

    File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 369, in _call_chain
        result = func(*args)
    File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 518, in http_error_default 
        raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
    urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 405: Method Not Allowed

and the error points back to “fp = opener.open(req)” in my code.

I have tried to search the web to see if I could find out a solution but without luck. Does anyone know what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks and regards

Answer 1

If you’re using Python 2.7.x, I recommend jira-python. It’s a Python package that handles the entire REST communication with Jira:

http://jira-python.readthedocs.org/en/latest/