Jira using C#

Question

Hi,

Did anyone try to create an Issue on Jira using C# or nuget?

Can you please share your experience?

Thanks,

Jassim

Answer 1

You can use Jira Rest API.

For example to create a ticket, you can use POST to Issue endpoint.

Here is a class I created as JiraHelper, which has a method CreateTaskTicket, which accepts the following parameters:

• jiraUri: This is the uri of your Jira, something like https://example.atlassian.net/
• userName: This is the username that you use to login in Jira, something like user1@example.com
• apiKey: This is the API key that you created for login. You cannot use your password, you first need to create an API key. To do so take a look at here: Api Tokens
• projectKey: This is the key of your project. You can see it usually as initial of the tickets, or see it in the projects list, the key column.
• summary: The title that you want to show for the ticket
• description: The description test.

Then to use the method, it's enough to call it like this:

var result = await JiraHelper.CreateTaskTicket(
    uri, userName, apiKey, projectKey,
    "Hello, world!", 
    "This is a ticket created from C# code!");

In case of a success, the result contains:

• Id: Id of the task
• Key: Key of the task
• Self: Url of the task

Here is the class JiraHelper

using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Net.Http.Json;
public class JiraHelper
{
    private static HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
    public static async Task<JiraTicketResponse> CreateTaskTicket(Uri jiraUri, string userName, string apiKey, string projectKey, string summary, string description)
    {
        var authData = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes($"{userName}:{apiKey}");
        var basicAuthentication = Convert.ToBase64String(authData);
        client.BaseAddress = jiraUri;
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", basicAuthentication);
        var data = new
        {
            fields = new
            {
                issuetype = new { id = 10002 /*Task*/ },
                summary = summary,
                project = new { key = projectKey /*Key of your project*/},
                description = new
                {
                    version = 1,
                    type = "doc",
                    content = new[] {
                        new {
                            type = "paragraph",
                            content = new []{
                                new {
                                    type = "text",
                                    text =  description
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        };
        var result = await client.PostAsJsonAsync("/rest/api/3/issue", data);
        if (result.StatusCode == System.Net.HttpStatusCode.Created)
            return await result.Content.ReadFromJsonAsync<JiraTicketResponse>();
        else
            throw new Exception(await result.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
    }
}
public class JiraTicketResponse
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Key { get; set; }
    public Uri Self { get; set; }
}