Assign Issue Fix

- Changes to existing Assign Issue to user code

- Example added

- taken from https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/REST/8.5.0/#api/2/issue-assign

Resolves #775

Author: isaac-philip

atlassian/jira.py

@@ -973,7 +973,10 @@ def assign_issue(self, issue, account_id=None):
         """
         base_url = self.resource_url("issue")
         url = "{base_url}/{issue}/assignee".format(base_url=base_url, issue=issue)
-        data = {"accountId": account_id}
+        data = {"name": account_id}
+        log.warning(
+            "Assigning Issue {issue_key} to User Id {account_id}".format(issue_key=issue, account_id=account_id)
+        )
         return self.put(url, data=data)
 
     def create_issue(self, fields, update_history=False, update=None):

examples/jira/jira_issue_assign.py

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# coding=utf8
+"""
+    Assign/Reassign a Jira Issue to a user with the account_id
+"""
+
+from atlassian import Jira
+
+jira = Jira(url="https://jira.example.com/", username="roger", password="federer")
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    assign_issue = jira.assign_issue(issue="APA-555", account_id="rfederer")