Problems posting issues to a private project via the REST API

Created December 13, 2013 16:46

I refer to this blog post Creating an alternative UI for YouTrack which I was using as a starting point hwoever the project I need to post to is not a public project so I therefore get 401 (Unauthorized) errors when attempting to post a new issue.

Can I post issues into a private project from a designated domain without passing login credentials? The reason for this is that for our users it is likely to be a barrier to them reporting issues if they have to login first.

Thanks, Simon

2 comments

Simon Dingley

Created December 14, 2013 07:49

On the assumption that it is not possible to anonymously report issues for a private project I've set about trying to login via the REST API first. I can login and the cookies are set however when I now try and post the issue via the API I get a 403 Forbidden error.

My code is as follows:

    function createIssue() {

        $.ajax({
            url: "http://example.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/rest/user/login",
            dataType: "json",
            type: "POST",
            data: {
 login: $("#username").val(),
 password: $("#password").val()
            }
        });

        $.ajax({
            url: "http://example.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/rest/issue",
            dataType: "json",
            type: "POST",
            data: {
 project: 'PROJECT_NAME',
 summary: $("#summary").val(),
 description: $("#description").val()
            },
            xhrFields: {
 withCredentials: true
            }
        }).done(function(data) {
            $("#result").show();
            $("#summary").val('');
            $("#description").val('');
        });
    }

Simon Dingley

Created December 14, 2013 08:16

For the benefit of others it turns out that the 403 error was being thrown because the Project name entered was the name and not the Project ID!

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