java - Add Attachment to Jira via REST API

Question

I'm trying to post an attachment o JIRA using the latest REST API. Here's my code:

public boolean addAttachmentToIssue(String issueKey, String path){

        String auth = new 

String(org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64.encodeBase64((user+":"+pass).getBytes()));


    Client client = Client.create();
    WebResource webResource = client.resource(baseURL+"issue/"+issueKey+"/attachments");


    FormDataMultiPart formDataMultiPart = new FormDataMultiPart();

        File f = new File(path);
        if(f.exists() && f.isFile()){
            FileInputStream fis = null;
            try {
                fis = new FileInputStream(f);
            } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
                return false;
            }

            ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
            try {
                for (int readNum; (readNum = fis.read(buf)) != -1;) {
                    bos.write(buf, 0, readNum); //no doubt here is 0
                }
                fis.close();
                bos.close();
            } catch (IOException ex) {
                try {
                    fis.close();
                    bos.close();
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    return false;
                }
                return false;
            }
            byte[] bytes = bos.toByteArray();

            FormDataBodyPart bodyPart = new FormDataBodyPart("file", new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes), MediaType.APPLICATION_OCTET_STREAM_TYPE);
             formDataMultiPart.bodyPart(bodyPart);
    }else{
        return false;
    }

    ClientResponse response = null;

    response = webResource.header("Authorization", "Basic " + auth).header("X-Atlassian-Token", "nocheck").type(MediaType.MULTIPART_FORM_DATA).accept("application/json").post(ClientResponse.class, formDataMultiPart);
    System.out.println(response);

    int statusCode = response.getStatus();
    System.out.println(statusCode);
    String resp = response.getEntity(String.class);
    System.out.println(resp);

    return true;
}

However, i get the following response:

POST http://localhost:8082/rest/api/2/issue/TEST-2/attachments returned a response status of 404 Not Found
404
XSRF check failed

An Issue with key TEST-2 does exist in the my local JIRA instance and I can add the attachment "by hand" in the Jira app itself. I know that i must add a header of type "X-Atlassian-Token:nocheck" to prevent XSRF, but, by the output, I must be doing something wrong.. What confuses me even further is that a 404 is thrown after the XSRF check failed.

I've scavenged google for answers with no success Can anyone hazard a guess to what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

I've managed to resolve the issue by using the apache http client For whom may have the same issue, here's the code:

public boolean addAttachmentToIssue(String issueKey, String path){


        String auth = new String(org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64.encodeBase64((user+":"+pass).getBytes()));


    HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
    HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(baseURL+"issue/"+issueKey+"/attachments");
    httppost.setHeader("X-Atlassian-Token", "nocheck");
    httppost.setHeader("Authorization", "Basic "+auth);
    MultipartEntity entity = new MultipartEntity(HttpMultipartMode.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE);

    File fileToUpload = new File(path);
    FileBody fileBody = new FileBody(fileToUpload, "application/octet-stream");
    entity.addPart("file", fileBody);

    httppost.setEntity(entity);
    HttpResponse response = null;
    try {
        response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
    } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
        return false;
    } catch (IOException e) {
        return false;
    }
    HttpEntity result = response.getEntity();

    if(response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() == 200)
        return true;
    else
        return false;

}