Jira create issue API does not honor assignee or reporter fields

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#1

Hello, I’ve followed the API documentation for creating an an issue in Jira with an assignee ID, however it does not set the assignee when I view the ticket via either the API or the UI.

My payload looks like this:

{
  "fields": {
    "summary": "another one",
    "description": {
      "type": "doc",
      "version": 1,
      "content": [
        {
          "type": "paragraph",
          "content": [
            {
              "type": "text",
              "text": ""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    "project": {
      "id": "10002"
    },
    "issuetype": {
      "id": "10004"
    },
    "labels": [
      "firehydrant",
      "UNSET"
    ]
  },
  "assignee": {
    "id": "5bd7c9cabfe6ba4263f72879"
  }
}

However the assignee does not get set. Same thing if I set the reporter field as well.

I receive no error from the API, too. It creates the issue just fine, but with no assignee.

I’m using an OAuth2 bearer token to perform this request.

#2

Hi @RobertRoss,

The assignee field needs to be directly under the fields field. I think it is a peer to the fields field in your code.

Regards,
Dugald