How to create a custom field in python jira

Question

I'd like to store some extra information in a custom field. So I create a dictionary for my issue:

            issue_dict = {
            'project': 'PROJECT-TITLE',
            'summary': 'issue title',
            'description': 'issue description',
            'assignee': 'issue assignee',
            'issuetype': {'name': 'Bug'},
            'customfield': {'extra info'}
        }

and import it to jira like this:

new_issue = self.jira.create_issue(fields=issue_dict)

The error I get is:

TypeError: set(['extra info']) is not JSON serializable

Answer 1

One workaround that I found was to store the information in a comment instead and parsing comment bodyinstead. It ain't pretty though.