Scripting with outdated API on version 7

[Pat Noack]

I am trying to get a script that used to work on version 5.x on JIRA to run on a v7.1.6 version.  The script was initially taken from the following webpage

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/97963

Here is the script with modifications  I am still having issues with line 13.  Any help on the matter would be greatly appreciated.

import com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager

import com.atlassian.jira.event.issue.AbstractIssueEventListener

import com.atlassian.jira.event.issue.IssueEvent

import com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue

import com.atlassian.jira.issue.comments.Comment

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor

import org.apache.log4j.Category

def commentManager = ComponentAccessor.getCommentManager()

class SubtaskCommentListener extends AbstractIssueEventListener {

    Category log = Category.getInstance(SubtaskCommentListener.class)

    CommentManager commentManager = ComponentManager.instance.commentManager

    @Override

    void workflowEvent(IssueEvent event) {

        // only one central way...

        this.customEvent(event)

    }

    @Override

    void customEvent(IssueEvent event) {

        // set explicit to debug

        log.setLevel(org.apache.log4j.Level.DEBUG)

        log.debug "Event: \"${ComponentManager.instance.eventTypeManager.eventTypesMap[event.getEventTypeId()].name}\" fired for ${event.issue}"

        // Here you should put any subtask based restrictions for this task like

        // only for special subtask issue types or similar

        Comment comment = event?.getComment()

        if (comment && event.issue.isSubTask()) {

            log.debug "New commment for subtask found."

            Issue parent = event.issue.getParentObject()

            // Here you should put any parent task based restrictions like

            // only for special issue types or similar

            commentManager.create(parent, comment.author, comment.updateAuthor, comment.body, comment.groupLevel, comment.roleLevelId, comment.created, comment.updated, true, true)

            log.debug ("Created comment on ${parent.key}")

        }

    }

}

[Thanos Batagiannis [Adaptavist] · Accepted solution]

Hi Pat,

You should create a new custom listener, associate it with the project/s you want and for event choose an Issue Commented. For inline script use 

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.comments.Comment

Issue subtask = event.issue
Comment comment = event.comment
def commentManager = ComponentAccessor.getCommentManager()

if (subtask.isSubTask() && comment) {
    def parentIssue = subtask.getParentObject()
    def commentToParent = commentManager.create(
            parentIssue, //the parent issue to copy the comment
            comment.getAuthorApplicationUser(), //the author of the subtask's comment
            comment.getBody(), //the actual comment body
            comment.getGroupLevel(), // is the group name to limit comment visibility to, this must be a valid group name.
            comment.getRoleLevelId(), // is the id of the the ProjectRole to limit comment visibility to, this must reference a valid project role.
            false) //if true then an event of type EventType.ISSUE_COMMENTED_ID will be dispatched and any notifications listening for that event will be triggered. If false no event will be dispatched.
    log.info "Comment copied to parent issue ${parentIssue.getKey()}"
}

The link to the code/class you pasted is for version <= JIRA6, the scirpt above is updated to fit JIRA7 API

Regards

Thanos

[Chase Brown]

I'm getting an error with the "&amp;&amp;" in the IF line. Any suggestions?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

This question was converted over from the previous "Answers" site, which messed up some of the formatting in places.  &amp; is a reformatted &, so just swap them to that in your script.

[Chase Brown]

Now I'm getting an error with:

def commentToParent = commentManager.create(

Cannot find matching method. 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Best guess is that you're on a different version of Jira to the one the script works for.  You'll need to use the api docs for the current version to work out what methods to use

[Pat Noack]

Thanos,

Although there was an error the script still appears to work for adding comments editing and deleting comments.

Thank you for your quick response to my issue.

Pat

[Pat Noack]

Thanos,

Thank you for the new code.

I tried your new code out on a system and although the code itself comes up with no errors I do get an error when it runs through the code.  It is still pointing at the same line.  The log information on this is as follows:

Time (on server): Fri Jul 08 2016 09:20:20 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

The following log information was produced by this execution. Use statements like:log.info("...") to record logging information.

2016-07-08 09:20:20,565 ERROR [runner.AbstractScriptListener]: *************************************************************************************
2016-07-08 09:20:20,581 ERROR [runner.AbstractScriptListener]: Script function failed on event: com.atlassian.jira.event.issue.IssueEvent, file: <inline script>
org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed:
Script51.groovy: 13: unable to resolve class CommentManager 
 @ line 13, column 5.
       CommentManager commentManager = ComponentManager.instance.commentManager
       ^
1 error

[Pat Noack]

Thanos,

I tried your new code out on a system and although the code itself comes up with no errors I do get an error when it runs through the code.  It is still pointing at the same line.  The log information on this is as follows:

Time (on server): Fri Jul 08 2016 09:20:20 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

The following log information was produced by this execution. Use statements like:log.info("...") to record logging information.

2016-07-08 09:20:20,565 ERROR [runner.AbstractScriptListener]: *************************************************************************************
2016-07-08 09:20:20,581 ERROR [runner.AbstractScriptListener]: Script function failed on event: com.atlassian.jira.event.issue.IssueEvent, file: <inline script>
org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed:
Script51.groovy: 13: unable to resolve class CommentManager 
 @ line 13, column 5.
       CommentManager commentManager = ComponentManager.instance.commentManager
       ^
1 error

[Pat Noack]

Sorry about that.  Thought I had included the error.  I think cutting and pasting into the webpage screwed up the lines for me.

This is the line it errors out on

CommentManager commentManager = ComponentManager.instance.commentManager

Unable to resolve class CommentManager @line13 column 5

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Which is line 13 (empty by my count) and what is the error?