Groovy listener: copy component's description to custom field.

[Kate]

Hi!

I have some question about groovy and jira. I want to copy component's description to custom field, if this component was chosen.

How can I get current component's description?

[Henning Tietgens · Accepted solution]

To get the current components descriptions as a comma separated list you can write

String componentsDescriptions = issue.componentObjects*.description.join(',')

[Tarun Sapra]

Hi Henning, how to null check it, if it's being used part of gStringTemplate engine

would the below work?

${issue.componentObjects*?.description.join(',')}

[Henning Tietgens]

I don't think that you have to null check, if you use the *. operator. Did you have any problems?

[Tarun Sapra]

Hi henning,

Iam using this expression as part of the email template using script runner built-in post function to send custom email

${issue.componentObjects*.name.join(',')} but it's not getting the component names.

[Henning Tietgens]

Did you tried

<% out << issue.componentObjects*.name.join(',') %>

like shown in the example in the script runner docs?

[Tarun Sapra]

Hi Henning, Thanks it works now! :) but why was it not working with ${} and works with <%out %>

[Tarun Sapra]

is it because ${} is used only to show data already there in the bean and <% %> is used for minupulation/evaluation of data

[Henning Tietgens]

I think it has something to do with the point in time when the expressions are evaluated. But I'm not sure.

[Bharadwaj Jannu]

I don't know groovy syntax but I have posted Java coding here. You can interpret in to groovy.

import com.atlassian.jira.bc.project.component.ProjectComponent;

String compDescr="";
for(ProjectComponent comp : issue.getComponentObjects())
{	
	compDescr = compDescr +comp.getDescription()+"\n";
}

CustomFieldManager cfm=ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager();
issue.setCustomFieldValue(cfm.getCustomFieldObjectByName("<your customfield name>"),compDescr);
// The issue should be mutable issue and imagining the customfield is of text type

JiraAuthenticationContext authContext=ComponentAccessor.getJiraAuthenticationContext();

ComponentAccessor.getIssueManager().updateIssue(authContext.getLoggedInUser(),issue,EventDispatchOption.ISSUE_UPDATED,false);

ComponentAccessor.getIssueIndexManager().reIndex(issue);