This article will show you how to add or remove issue to an active sprint, which already has a valid Sprint ID.

• To add issue to sprint

Method: PUT

REST API: sprint/{sprintId}/issues/add

Example URL: http://jira:8080/rest/greenhopper/1.0/sprint/1/issues/add

Example JSON data: {"issueKeys":["DEMO-1"]}

• To remove issue from sprint

Method (for JIRA Agile 6.2 and later): PUT

Method (for earlier version of GreenHopper, example GH 6.0.1): DELETE

REST API: sprint/{sprintId}/issues/remove

Example URL: http://jira:8080/rest/JIRA Agile/1.0/sprint/1/issues/remove

Example JSON data: {"issueKeys":["DEMO-1"]}

The following is the complete example using cURL:

curl -D- -u admin:admin -X PUT -d '{"issueKeys":["DEMO-1"]}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://jira:8080/rest/greenhopper/1.0/sprint/1/issues/add

To find more other JIRA Agile REST API, you can install Developer Toolbox and see the page on REST API. It will show the REST API that can be used in JIRA Agile as well by clicking on the dropdown besides the topic name.