JSON data to REST API using cURL give a blank response

Question

I'm trying to post data to a JIRA REST API but I get a blank response back. The code sits in two files. Here's the code located on the jira.json file:

{
"fields": {
            "project":
                        {
                            "id": "19600"
                        },
            "summary": "REST ye merry gentlemen.",
                            "description": "Creating of an issue using project keys and issue type names using the REST API",
                            "issuetype": {
                                                "name": "Task"
                                         }
                }
}

and the php code:

<?php

$jsondata = file_get_contents("jira.json");
$json = json_decode($jsondata,true);

//print_r($json);




$url_send ="http://jira.greentea.co.za:8091/rest/api/2/issue/";
$str_data = json_encode($json);

//print_r($str_data);

function sendPostData($url, $post){
  $ch = curl_init($url);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");  
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$post);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); 
  $result = curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);  

  if($result)
    {
        return 1;
    }
  else{
        return 0;
       }
  }



$time =  sendPostData($url_send, $str_data);
var_dump($time);
?>

I get a zero int(0) meaning that the result variable returned a blank result. This is the the cURL Command that I converted to php. data will be replaced by the json array:

curl -D- -u fred:fred -X POST --data {see below} -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://localhost:8090/rest/api/2/issue/

Have you noticed you've not included the Content-type header in your PHP code? You can also use curl_getinfo() to get the HTTP code, which might give you an idea as to what's wrong. — choult
– choult, Commented Mar 10, 2016 at 9:55

Ray A · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-10 10:05:23Z

1

If you are sure that you have CURL enabled with your PHP, try to use this snippet from my code:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Content-Type: application/json','Content-Length: ' . strlen($json_data)));

Let me know if this works for you.

answered Mar 10, 2016 at 10:05

Ray A

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