Working with issues

So far we have seen how to write the clients for REST, SOAP, and XML/RPC methods. Now it is time to move on to some real examples. In this recipe, we will have a look at creating an issue using REST APIs.

Getting ready

Create a JIRA REST client as mentioned in the Writing a Java client for the REST API recipe.

How to do it...

The following are the steps to create an issue with the standard fields populated on it:

1. As mentioned in the Writing Java clients for the REST API recipe, initialize the Rest client:

   final AsynchronousJiraRestClientFactory factory = new AsynchronousJiraRestClientFactory();
   final URI uri = new URI("http://localhost:8080/");
   final JiraRestClient jiraRestClient = factory.createWithBasicHttpAuthentication(uri, "userName", "password");

2. Retrieve the IssueRestClient from JiraRestClient as we are dealing with issues in this recipe:

   IssueRestClient issueClient = jiraRestClient.getIssueClient();

3. Initialize the IssueInputBuilder object using the project key, issuetype...