Redmine Add multiple watchers through rest api

Question

I need to create Redmine issues through api. I have an xml draft, that is posted to the redmine by wget.exe. The xml looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<issue>
  <project_id>145</project_id>
  <tracker_id>10</tracker_id>
  <category_id>885</category_id>
  <subject>subj</subject>
  <description>descript</description>
  <watcher_user_ids>1333,1614</watcher_user_ids>
</issue>

It works almost fine except adding watchers to the issue. According to documentation parameter <watcher_user_ids> contains array of watchers. But I can't make it work for multiple watchers. Somehow it adds only the first one and others are ignored. I've tried to use ";", "," separators, different brackets, but it doesn't help. I guess I'm doing something wrong. Can please anybody help me and show me the right way.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 27 '16 at 15:23

I could not make this work at all with Redmine version 2.5.2.stable. The only thing that worked for me is:

POST /issues/[id]/watchers.[format]

where watchers.json is:

{"user_id": "11"}

It makes sense since the watchers table references the issue and the issue contains no reference to watchers.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 08 '16 at 15:32

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<watcher_user_ids>1333</watcher_user_ids>
<watcher_user_ids>1614</watcher_user_ids>

answered Feb 08 '16 at 15:32

ddk

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Your answer contains only code. Can you ad some explanation? – Matt Rowland Feb 08 '16 at 15:39
Please add some comments about your solution on why and how it solves the problem – Bhavesh Odedra Feb 12 '16 at 14:38

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 10 '16 at 16:57

I had the same problem. To solve I changed XML to JSON format and everything worked perfectly:

{
  "issue": {
    "project_id": 145,
    "category_id": 885
    "subject": "subj",
    "description": "descript",
    "watcher_user_ids": ["133","1614"]
  }
}

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Feb 16 '17 at 14:35

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You have to add a line for each watcher you want to add.

<watcher_user_ids>1333</watcher_user_ids>
<watcher_user_ids>1614</watcher_user_ids>

In this example 2 watchers will be added.

edited Feb 16 '17 at 14:35

Jonathan Argentiero

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answered Feb 16 '17 at 14:28

Jan Didden

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Redmine Add multiple watchers through rest api

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