Consuming a Jira REST API - php

Question

I would like to consume a Jira REST API, but have been unsuccessful.
The Jira site gives the following request URL:
curl -D- -u fred:fred -X POST --data {see below} -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://localhost:8090/rest/api/2/issue/
And this is the json array, which is located on a file called collector.json:
"fields": [
{
"project":
{
"key": "ATL"
},
"summary": "REST ye merry TEST.",
"description": "Creating of an issue using project keys and issue type names using the REST API",
"issuetype": {
"name": "Task"
}
}
]
}
The following is the code:
<?php
include_once "collector.php";
$jiraValues = jsonArray("collector.json");
$jira_url = "http://jira.howareyou.org:8091/rest/api/2/issue/createmeta";
$jiraString = json_encode($jiraValues);
$request = curl_init($jira_url); // initiate curl object
curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); // set to 0 to eliminate header info from response
curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // Returns response data instead of TRUE(1)
curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json'));
curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "");
curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $jiraString); // use HTTP POST to send form data
curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE); // uncomment this line if you get no gateway response.
curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_URL, $jira_url);
$json_raw = curl_exec($request); // execute curl post and store results in $json_raw
curl_close($request); // close curl object
// This line takes the response and breaks it into an array using the specified delimiting character
$jira_response = json_decode($json_raw, TRUE);
print_r($jira_response);
When I run it, Nothing happens. I get no feedback.
I found it here, and replaced the information with my valid information.

Answer 1

Firstly define some helpful globals to help :
define('JIRA_URL', 'http://jira.howareyou.org:8091');
define('USERNAME', '');
define('PASSWORD', '');
Then we need to define a post method :
function post_issue($data) {
$jdata = json_encode($data);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
CURLOPT_POST => 1,
CURLOPT_URL => JIRA_URL . '/rest/api/2/issue/createmeta' . $resource,
CURLOPT_USERPWD => USERNAME . ':' . PASSWORD,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $jdata,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array('Content-type: application/json'),
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true
));
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return json_decode($result);
}
Then how we want to use it is like so :
Create a new issue
$new_issue = array(
'fields' => array(
'project' => array('key' => 'TIS'),
'summary' => 'Test via REST',
'description' => 'Description of issue goes here.',
'priority' => array('name' => 'Blocker'),
'issuetype' => array('name' => 'Task'),
'labels' => array('a','b')
)
);
Call our previously made function passing in the new issue :
$result = post_issue($new_issue);
if (property_exists($result, 'errors')) {
echo "Error(s) creating issue:\n";
var_dump($result);
} else {
echo "New issue created at " . JIRA_URL ."/browse/{$result->key}\n";
}
A basic example of posting a new issue via REST
Note: The Jira API URL may need to be configured slightly