JIRA API supports REST JSON format.
Here I show C # code to call JIRA API and how we can create an issue through that API
Code :
using System.Net;
using System.IO;
Event code
string postUrl = "https://netstarter.jira.com/rest/api/latest/issue";
var httpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(postUrl);
httpWebRequest.ContentType = "application/json";
httpWebRequest.Method = "POST";
httpWebRequest.Headers["Authorization"] = "Basic " + Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.Default.GetBytes("USERNAME:PASSWORD"));
using (var streamWriter = new StreamWriter(httpWebRequest.GetRequestStream()))
{
string json = @"{""fields"":{""project"":{""key"": ""JAPI""},""summary"": ""REST EXAMPLE"",""description"": ""Creating an issue via REST API 2"",""issuetype"": {""name"": ""Bug""}}}";
streamWriter.Write(json);
streamWriter.Flush();
streamWriter.Close();
var httpResponse = (HttpWebResponse)httpWebRequest.GetResponse();
using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(httpResponse.GetResponseStream()))
{
var result = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
}
}
References:
JIRA API Documentation