How to use Google Apps Script to create issues in Redmine? - google-apps-script

Question

I'm trying to create an issue in Redmine using Google Apps Script, the code is following:
function create_issue() {
var payload = {
'project_id': 'helpdesk',
'subject': 'This is a test ticket',
'description': 'This is just a genius test ticket',
'category_id': 1
};
var headers = {
'X-Redmine-API-Key': '<myapikey>',
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
};
var url = 'http://myredmine.com/issues.json';
var options = {
'method': 'POST',
'headers': headers,
'payload': payload,
//uteHttpExceptions': true
};
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, options);
Logger.log(response);
}
Every time I ran that script, it threw the following exception:
Execution failed: Request failed for http://myredmine.com/issues.json
returned code 422. Truncated server response: {"errors":["Subject
can't be blank"]} (use muteHttpExceptions option to examine full
response) (line 25, file "Code") [0.645 seconds total runtime]
But as you see, the "subject" parameter was passed in the payload already. What am I missing?
Thanks,
Trinh

Answer 1

I found the problem, I need to indicate the issue in the payload:
function create_issue() {
var issue = {
"description": "Test ticket",
"subject": "Genius ticket"
}
var payload = {
"issue": issue,
"key": "<myapikey>",
"project_id": "helpdesk",
};
payload = JSON.stringify(payload);
var headers = {
'X-Redmine-API-Key': '<myapikey>',
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
};
var url = 'http://myredmine.com/issues.json';
var options = {
'method': 'POST',
'headers': headers,
'payload': payload,
'contentType': 'application/json',
//'muteHttpExceptions': true
};
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, options);
Logger.log(response);
}
And it works!