Create Project using REST API

[Sunil Singh]

Hi 

I have looked at the couple of threads but not able to create project out of it.

Following is my code 

var _serviceUrl = Helper.Configuration.JIRAUrl + "/rest/api/3/project";
var payLoad = "{ \"key\": \"" + projectName.Substring(0, 2) + "\"," +
" \"name\": \"" + projectName + "\"," +
" \"projectTypeKey\": \"software\"," +
" \"projectTemplateKey\": \"com.pyxis.greenhopper.jira:gh-simplified-kanban\"," +
" \"description\": \"Example Project description\"," +
" \"lead\": \"admin\""+
"}";
var ItemValue = new StringContent(payLoad, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");
var result = HttpJIRAOnline("POST", _serviceUrl, ItemValue);

Error:

{StatusCode: 400, ReasonPhrase: '', Version: 1.1, Content: System.Net.Http.StreamContent, Headers:
{
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=315360000; includeSubDomains; preload
ATL-TraceId: 3469dd6db518f35e
X-AREQUESTID: a3c279a0-c613-4ca9-9014-68020009f304
X-AACCOUNTID: 5d9c784b45fad00dc1261cf1
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Timing-Allow-Origin: *
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Micros-Issuer: micros/edge-authenticator
Connection: close
Expect-CT: report-uri="https://web-security-reports.services.atlassian.com/expect-ct-report/global-proxy", enforce, max-age=86400
Cache-Control: no-store, no-transform, no-cache
Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 02:58:54 GMT
Set-Cookie: atlassian.xsrf.token=fb415e15-0205-48ba-b4f2-84da32e6dedb_7a20f41075af6f3e3deabaa2bf29b773bc0c2fcf_lin; Path=/; Secure
Server: AtlassianProxy/1.15.8.1
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
}}

[DPKJ · Accepted solution]

@Sunil Singh  Welcome to the community.

HTTP Status Code 400 for this API implies that you are passing in some wrong values for project object.

Here is brief idea,

• key - has to be capitalized  and less than 10 characters (please check if you are passing small case character in it)
• projectName - seems to be correct in your case
• projectTypeKey - 'software' is correct here

• projectTemplateKey - you are not passing correct value here 'com.pyxis.greenhopper.jira:gh-simplified-kanban' doesn't exists, it should be 'com.pyxis.greenhopper.jira:gh-simplified-kanban-classic'

• description - looks fine
• lead - this is deprecated parameter use 'leadAccountId' and pass accountId of `admin` in it.

I hope these changes will resolve your issue.

[Sunil Singh]

Thanks. I will try it out and update. 

[Sunil Singh]

Thanks For the help. However,  someone really needs to update the documentation, my final Payload is this:

I had to say software instead of Software

{ "key": "DE", "name": "Debug99", "projectTypeKey": "software", "projectTemplateKey": "com.pyxis.greenhopper.jira:gh-simplified-kanban-classic", "description": "Example Project description", "leadAccountId": "5d9d96980336040dbfcbc3c6"}