Getting issue component in postfunction

[Charlie Misonne]

I'm writing a postfunction in the "create issue" workflow step with the ScriptRunner plugin

The script should check if the issue has a specific component named "myComponent" and returns true in order to fire an event

I tried this:

issue.component = "myComponent"

Too simple apparently. So I looked in the documentation and tried this in the Script Console:

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor

def issueManager = ComponentAccessor.getIssueManager()
def issue = issueManager.getIssue("JIRA-001")

For each issue key I try with the component appears to be `null`

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What am I missing?

I also tried getComponentObjects()

[JamieA · Accepted solution]

"myComponent" in issue.componentObjects*.name

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Components is a multiple option field, which can have none, one, or many settings. 

You're finding "component: null" as a hangover from code from when the component was a single select, so you should ignore that.

Use issue.getComponentObjects() to get a collection of values. 

This is where my java/groovy lets me down - I don't know if there's an easy way to say "is the string 'My Component' represented by a projectComponent in this collection?" directly. 

What will work is brute force - iterate over the result and look at the names -

collectionOfComponents.each { if it.getName().equals('My Component') then {...} }

Will do it if you want to compare on component name.

[JamieA]

the spread-dot operator is your friend here, componentObjects*.name returns a new List by calling getName on each object.

[Charlie Misonne]

Thanks for telling me what that 'component' attribute was ;) I tried both approaches and they work. The notation from Jamie seems the way to go Also: I was using get getIssue() instead of getIssueObject() in the script console which is deprecated