issueFunction in epicsOf() vs issue in issuesWhereEpicIn()

Question

What is the difference?

PD Sheehan · Answer

I believe them to be functionally the same. There may be performance differences but I haven’t seen it tested. I know that scriptunner have tied their functions to the issueFuction custom field that they deploy for performance reasons. But maybe jtricks used some other optimization trick.

I think few people are likely to have both in their environment. I got rid of jtricks a few years ago once I became familiar with script runner because it allowed me to do so much more.

joseph weiss · Answer

Peter, thanks for the quick reply.  I goofed.  I'm looking for the comparison of

issueFunction in epicOf()

vs

issue in epicsWhereIssueIn()

PD Sheehan · Answer

issueFunction in epicOf('jqlQuery'):

* provided by scriptrunner add-on
* will return the list of EPICS where any of the issues in the epic match the jqlQuery

issue in issuesWhereEpicIn('jqlQuery'):

* provided by j-tricks add-on
* will return the list of ISSUES where the epic matched the jqlQuery