setCreated() method throwing a static error while setting up the created date

Question

I am trying to set created to current date using below method in my script,but it is throwing error "cannot find matching method com.atlassian.jira.issue.MutableIssue#setCreated(long)"

newIssue.setCreated(System.currentTimeMillis())

Any one can help me on what is wrong here

Antoine Berry · Accepted Answer

Hi @Vineela Durbha ,

Looking at the error message and at the api, setCreated method is expecting a timestamp object, try

import java.sql.Timestamp

newIssue.setCreated(new Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis()))

instead.

Antoine

Marcos Sanchez · Accepted Answer

Hi,

That's because the setCreated() method needs a TimeStamp to set the new created date.

If you want to set created date to "currentTimeInMillis" you could try with something like this:

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat
import java.sql.Timestamp
import java.util.Date

def issueManager = ComponentAccessor.issueManager
def customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.customFieldManager

def createdDate = new Date(System.currentTimeMillis())

def df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss", Locale.ENGLISH);
def dt = df.format(createdDate)
def date = df.parse(dt)
def ts = new Timestamp(date.getTime())

//note that "issue" is the issue you want to set the created date. 
//In your case may be newIssue as I can see in the code you've pasted.

issue.setCreated(ts)
issue.store()

Best Regards,

Marcos