Cookie based authentication with JIRA (F# and RestSharp)

jira-cookie-auth-comment-post.fs

open RestSharp

type PostData = {
    body: string
}

type Login = {
    username : string
    password : string
}

let uname = "admin"
let pw = "your-password"

let restClient = RestSharp.RestClient("https://your-account.atlassian.net")

let authReq = 
    RestSharp
        .RestRequest("/rest/auth/1/session")
        .AddJsonBody({ username = uname; password = pw })

let authResponse = restClient.Post authReq
printfn "response StatusCode: %A" authResponse.StatusCode

let cookiesToAdd = 
    authResponse.Cookies 
    |> Seq.map (fun x -> (x.Name, x.Value))

let addCommentReq = 
    RestSharp
        .RestRequest("/rest/api/2/issue/Issue-Id/comment")
        .AddJsonBody({ body = "a new comment" })

for (name, value) in cookiesToAdd do
    printfn "cookie name: %s value: %s" name value
    addCommentReq.AddCookie(name, value) |> ignore

let commentResp = restClient.Post addCommentReq

printfn "add comment StatusCode: %A" commentResp.StatusCode