Pop up message after handling event (java)

Question

Hello,

I am currently handling the issue updated event on the java server side of jira. From there on I am passing the updated values to a different system. This communication between Jira and the other system is fairly simple realized through rest calls.

@EventListener
public void onIssueEvent(IssueEvent issueEvent) {
    // pass on data to different system
}

What I am searching now, is by idea also easy. After I passed the data on, I want to pop up a notification in Jira about the return status of the data pass. For example: "Successfully sent".

Problem is, it's actually not that easy. In my research I found out a few things:

* https://docs.atlassian.com/aui/7.9.3/docs/messages.html Messages in AUI provide the type of notification that I'd like to have
* AUI functionality can (afaik) only be accessed from velocities or javascript
* It is possible to make custom events, although it's not quite clear to me how

So either I could pop a message from the onIssueEvent method somehow, or I create a custom event and raise it in onIssueEvent and catch it in a javascript. For both parts I don't really know how to do it. If you know how to manage it over a custom event, could you give a simple example (Event-Class, raise event, catch event jscript)? Of course the event would need to carry a tiny bit of information about the sending status.

I might not be seeing a different solution right now, so I am grateful for any kind of help in that direction.

Kind regards

Chris

Christian_Schönert · Answer

Ok so I guess you need to put in a script for the event. So far I have never used Scriptrunner myself, since it was used by other developers for minor scripts. I didn't see at first that your link is only to write scripts with that plugin. I'm really looking for a solution that integrates into my plugin java code.

The thing is, that I already finished all the work with listeners, data transaction etc.

The only thing missing is a notification for the user, if something went wrong. But still your hint does help, as it may provide a (more costly) backup plan.

Ilya Turov · Answer

It totally slipped my mind that it's scriptrunner's feature, so I don't really know how to use it anywhere besides jira.

But since you already have it (scriptrunner) why not use it's own listeners?

Christian_Schönert · Answer

Thank you. That sounds very much like a solution I need. On Jira I am running Adaptavist Scriptrunner for Jira with Version 4.3.15. Although I am not sure how to include the dependency right, since this: com.adaptavist.pom scriptrunner-jira-standard 4.3.15 provided is not working. Though I think an independent solution would be much better, I'll take this if you could point me to how to include the dependency correctly.