Not possible to unassign an issue

[jamime]

It is not possible to set the issue to unassigned (a null value)
https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-set-assignee-to-unassigned-via-rest-api-in-jira-744721880.html

[coryb]

Nice, thanks for the link, I was wondering how to do that. Sounds like a hacky work around for now you can run jira give ISSUE -1 which should set the assignee to Unassigned if that document is correct.

[jamime]

@coryb Unfortunatly jira give ISSUE -1 does not work (Unknown option -1). But also, when a component has a assigned lead -1 wouldn't unassigned the issue, only re-assign it to the component lead.

[coryb]

Okay, I played around a bit and did not get anything useful to work. I will see what I can find to make this work.

[coryb]

I did get the -1 to work though, but you need the -- option for jira to prevent the -1 from being parsed as an option, so this worked for me:

jira give ISSUE -- -1

The command looks like nonsense, so we still need to work on usability for that. Perhaps I will make a default user map to -1 automatically. So I will probably make this work:

jira give ISSUE default

I think the Atlassian document you linked to is partially wrong though. For a project that has a default assignee I tried sending {"name": ""} which results in an error:

{"errorMessages":[],"errors":{"assignee":"User '' does not exist."}}

It does seem to work if you send {"name": null} though. I am not sure what the jira command would look like for this though, perhaps:

jira give ISSUE unassigned

or

jira unassign ISSUE

[jamime]

I'm not sure what would happen if the system had a user with the username 'default', so I think it would be better as a command for both of these tasks.
I like jira unassign ISSUE and possibly jira default ISSUE.

[coryb]

Okay, I have added commands for:

jira unassign ISSUE

and

jira give ISSUE --default

I thought having a default command would probably be pretty confusing.

You can download the latest release here: https://github.com/Netflix-Skunkworks/go-jira/releases/tag/v0.1.14