JIRA API call to create ticket.txt

JIRA_API.txt

1. create basic authentication header : https://developer.atlassian.com/server/jira/platform/basic-authentication/

 by base 64 encoded string of username:password (your jira username and password)

2. Add authorization header to the request:

Authorization: Basic ZnJlZDpmcmVk

3. Content-Type: application/json

4. request url: http://my-jira-url.com/rest/api/2/issue/

5. request body:

{
"fields": {
   "project":
   { 
      "key": "CRS"
   },
   "summary": "REST Bug EXAMPLE",
   "description": "Creating an issue via REST API",
   "issuetype": {
      "name": "Bug"
   }
  }
}

In the issuetype there will be following three values:

Bug
Improvement
New Feature