Connecting to the Jira REST API via an Atlassian Connect app in Python

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Hi there!

I am trying to set up a new Atlassian Connect app that clients will install to their Jira project. This app will need to do specific API calls to Jira, mainly creating issues.

I set up the app and got the info from the /installed call in the lifecycle of the app, and I’m trying to use the atlassian_jwt Python package to generate the token with the data I got from the lifecycle.

However, every request I make seems to get a 401 error. Here is an example of the code I tried, with removed secrets:

client_data = {
  "key": "com.example.myapp",
  "clientKey": "<key>",
  "publicKey": "<public key>",
  "sharedSecret": "<shared secret>",
  "serverVersion": "100212",
  "pluginsVersion": "1001.0.0-SNAPSHOT",
  "baseUrl": "https://<url>.atlassian.net",
  "productType": "jira",
  "description": "Atlassian JIRA at https://<url>.atlassian.net ",
  "eventType": "installed"
}


token = atlassian_jwt.encode_token('GET', '/rest/api/2/issue/NP-1', **client_data)
print(token)
r = requests.get('https://<url>.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/NP-1,
                 headers={'Authorization': 'JWT ' + token, 'Content-Type': 'application/json'})

Any idea what am I doing wrong?

I hope to use the Jira package instead of requests if possible, but one step at a time. Thank you!