Creating Issues with API but Description does not seem to get created

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I’ve searched and it seems that I need to follow an Atlassian Document Format to add to description field and I believe that I am doing that. The creation of the issue succeeds but when I look at the issue either in browser or via API the content part of the Description field is empty.

In the body of the request I have this

    "description": {
        "type": "doc",
        "version": 1,
        "content": [
            {
                "type": "paragraph",
                "content": [
                    {
                        "type": "text",
                        "text": "Why no description?"
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    },

and when I try to retrieve the newly created issue I get this:
“description”: {
“type”: “doc”,
“version”: 1,
“content”:
},

What is going on here you think?

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That behavior would be consistent with sending ADF to the v2 REST APIs. Can you let us know which API endpoint your client is using?

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Turns out that our JIRA admins has made a script that clears the description field upon creation and replaces it with a custom field that was empty. They just forgot to tell the API developer :slight_smile:

Its fixed now. Thanks.

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