How to add an attachment to jira using REST API in java?

[Seema Itagi]

public boolean addAttachmentToIssue(String issueKey, String path){

String auth = new String(org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64.encodeBase64((sn@gmail.com+":"+sitgi$123).getBytes()));

HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(baseURL+"issue/"+issueKey+"/attachments");
httppost.setHeader("X-Atlassian-Token", "nocheck");
httppost.setHeader("Authorization", "Basic "+auth);
MultipartEntity entity = new MultipartEntity(HttpMultipartMode.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE);

File fileToUpload = new File(path);
FileBody fileBody = new FileBody(fileToUpload, "application/octet-stream");
entity.addPart("file", fileBody);

httppost.setEntity(entity);
HttpResponse response = null;
try {
response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
return false;
} catch (IOException e) {
return false;
}
HttpEntity result = response.getEntity();

if(response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() == 200)
return true;
else
return false;

}

[Nir Haimov · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Here is a REST API using JAVA that works for me:

HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("https:<your_jira_url>/rest/api/latest/issue/"+issueKey+"/attachments");
httppost.setHeader("X-Atlassian-Token", "no-check");
httppost.setHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + credentials);
MultipartEntity entity = new MultipartEntity(HttpMultipartMode.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE);
FileBody fileBody = new FileBody(file, "application/octet-stream");
entity.addPart("file", fileBody);

httppost.setEntity(entity);
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);

Let me know if you succeedd or not.

If you got any errors, share the errors, but this should work, unless you set 1 or more parameters wrong.

[Seema Itagi]

What is fileBody and IssueKey?

Sorry I am new to automation Plz bare me for silly questions.

[Nir Haimov]

Filebody is how you need to pass your file to the request

so, for example, you have file: "C:\users\Itagi\desktop\file.txt"

so the code will be:

File file = new File ("C:\users\Itagi\desktop\file.txt");
FileBody fileBody = new FileBody(file, "application/octet-stream");
entity.addPart("file", fileBody);

 And IssueKey is the Jira issue you want to upload to the file to ("AJS-123")

[Sachintha]

Code ran successfully but attachment not uploaded?

String auth = new String(org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64.encodeBase64(("USERNAME"+":"+"PASSWORD").getBytes()));

HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(""URL" + "AUT-23"+"/attachments");
httppost.setHeader("X-Atlassian-Token", "TOKEN");
httppost.setHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + auth);
MultipartEntity entity = new MultipartEntity(HttpMultipartMode.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE);
File file = new File ("C:\\Users\\PTL_PC\\IdeaProjects\\API2\\uploads\\Bank.PNG");
FileBody fileBody = new FileBody(file, "application/octet-stream");
entity.addPart("file", fileBody);

httppost.setEntity(entity);
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);

[Abhilash]

What is issue key ??

[Deepashree Mohan]

Issue Key is something like "QA-123" , "DEV-111" etc