- name: Change issue status
    jira: uri={{server}} username={{user}} password={{passd}}
         issue={{issue.meta.key}} operation=transition status='51'
    tags:
      - jira

OUTPUT
 TASK [Get an issue] ************************************************************
changed: [localhost]

TASK [Change issue status] *****************************************************
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "Failed find valid transition for '51'"}


CURL

 curl -D- -u REDACTED -X POST --data '{"transition":{"id":"51"}}'    -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://url//rest/api/2/issue/XX-1111/transitions?expand=transitions.fields
Enter host password for user 'aabab':

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 08:48:36 GMT
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
X-AREQUESTID: REDACTED
X-ASEN: SEN-541537
X-Seraph-LoginReason: OK
X-ASESSIONID: xxxx
X-AUSERNAME: abaaaaa
Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, no-transform
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Set-Cookie: REDACTED; Path=/; Secure; HttpOnly
Set-Cookie: REDACTED; Path=/; Secure
Via: 1.1 xxx.xxx
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close