How to search for issues with a given custom field value

[mschuerer]

My custom field is a text field and it's ID is 'customfield_10000' I successfully accessed the field and set the value: issue.update().field("customfield_10000", "123").execute(); but trying Issue.SearchResult sr = jira.searchIssues("customfield_10000=123"); runs into

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: net.rcarz.jiraclient.JiraException: Failed to search issues
    at net.rcarz.jiraclient.Issue$IssueIterator.hasNext(Issue.java:566)
    at net.rcarz.jiraclient.Issue$SearchResult.<init>(Issue.java:692)
    at net.rcarz.jiraclient.Issue.search(Issue.java:1322)
    at net.rcarz.jiraclient.JiraClient.searchIssues(JiraClient.java:367)
    at net.rcarz.jiraclient.JiraClient.searchIssues(JiraClient.java:196)
    at jiraapipoc.JiraApiPoc.runTest(JiraApiPoc.java:248)
    at jiraapipoc.JiraApiPoc.main(JiraApiPoc.java:264)
Caused by: net.rcarz.jiraclient.JiraException: Failed to search issues
    at net.rcarz.jiraclient.Issue$IssueIterator.getNextIssues(Issue.java:641)
    at net.rcarz.jiraclient.Issue$IssueIterator.getNextIssue(Issue.java:598)
    at net.rcarz.jiraclient.Issue$IssueIterator.hasNext(Issue.java:564)
    ... 6 more
Caused by: net.rcarz.jiraclient.RestException: 400 Bad Request: {"errorMessages":["Field 'customfield_10000' does not exist or you do not have permission to view it."],"errors":{}}
    at net.rcarz.jiraclient.RestClient.request(RestClient.java:163)
    at net.rcarz.jiraclient.RestClient.get(RestClient.java:273)
    at net.rcarz.jiraclient.Issue$IssueIterator.getNextIssues(Issue.java:639)
    ... 8 more

Any ideas how to search for issues with a given custom field value ? Thanks in advance Maik

[mschuerer]

instead of Issue.SearchResult sr = jira.searchIssues("customfield_10000=123"); run Issue.SearchResult sr = jira.searchIssues("customfield_10000 ~ '123' ");