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Need help with listener that captures the date on when a date field is filled

Aisha M

My listener captures the Dates on when the "Baseline Due Date" is filled. And when the field is null, it shows null too. This set up has been working fine for a long time.

Recently, the field does not show up on the issue card. When looked at the logs, it shows no error, but has the below output,

23:23:28,659 ERROR [runner.ScriptBindingsManager]: [[GenericEntity:ChangeItem][newvalue,2020-09-24][field,duedate][oldstring,null][newstring,2020-09-24 00:00:00.0][id,30306603][fieldtype,jira][oldvalue,null][group,25006003]]

The output shows random custom field names like, [field,duedate], [field,Assignee] etc.

Can someone please help how to fix this ? Thank you

Accepted answers

Antoine Berry

Hi @Aisha M ,

You may use this script :

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.ModifiedValue
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.DefaultIssueChangeHolder

def issueType = issue.getIssueType().getName()
if (issueType == "Epic"){
def customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()

def dueDateValue = issue.getDueDate()
int baselineDueDateId = 10001

def baselineDueDate = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject(baselineDueDateId)
def baselineDueDateValue = issue.getCustomFieldValue(baselineDueDate)

if (!baselineDueDateValue && dueDateValue){ 
baselineDueDate.updateValue(null, issue, new ModifiedValue(baselineDueDateValue, dueDateValue), new DefaultIssueChangeHolder())

int baselineCapturedDateId = 10002
def baselineCapturedDate = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject(baselineCapturedDateId)
def baselineCapturedDateValue = issue.getCustomFieldValue(baselineCapturedDate)
def today = new java.sql.Timestamp(new Date().getTime())

baselineCapturedDate.updateValue(null, issue, new ModifiedValue(baselineCapturedDateValue, today), new DefaultIssueChangeHolder())
}
}

It will copy the value of the due date in the baseline due date field, and set the baseline captured date with the datetime at which the due date was changed.

You may want to use this script in each transition (groovy post-function) or in each listener where the the due date might be changed.

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Aisha M

Hello @Antoine Berry , Sorry for troubling you every time ;( Do you feel you can sense something wrong with my above listener ? There are no errors, so not able to guess why its failing

Nobody was able to help. Can I please have your thoughts on the setup.

(FYI, had recently added some script to the Baseline Due Date to capture & lock the first Epic Due Date value - YOU had helped with this). So, was wondering if its failing becoz of that change.

Antoine Berry

Hi @Aisha M ,

Nothing seems blocking in your listener. Whenever you are debugging a script I would suggest to add some logs. Please try this script, update the Baseline Due Date and check the logs :

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.ModifiedValue
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.DefaultIssueChangeHolder

def cfm = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()
def watch = cfm.getCustomFieldObjectByName("Baseline Due Date")
def watchValue = event.issue.getCustomFieldValue(watch)
def updatedWatch = cfm.getCustomFieldObjectByName("Epic Baseline Captured Date")
def today = new java.sql.Timestamp(new Date().getTime())

log.error("current value of Baseline Due Date is : " + watchValue)
if (event.getChangeLog().getRelated('ChildChangeItem').find{ it.field == 'Baseline Due Date'}){
log.error("baseline due date is being changed")
def changeHolder = new DefaultIssueChangeHolder()

updatedWatch.updateValue(null, event.issue, new ModifiedValue(null, today), changeHolder)
log.error("changing epic baseline captured date to date : " + today)
}
else {
log.error("the value is not being changed.")
}

Also have you upgraded Jira or changed custom field's name lately ?

Aisha M

@Antoine Berry I don't think the names changed, but I feel they did upgrade the Jira instances in Prod & Dev (affirmative). And out of the blue, the field stopped working, even thought its available in the View screens & everything seems unchanged.

I'll test again with the above script & let you know the logs thank you so much for looking into the issue.

Aisha M

Hello @Antoine Berry , I'm getting the below error,

2020-09-17 01:13:35,398 ERROR [runner.ScriptBindingsManager]: current value of Baseline Due Date is : null
2020-09-17 01:13:35,403 ERROR [runner.AbstractScriptListener]: *************************************************************************************
2020-09-17 01:13:35,403 ERROR [runner.AbstractScriptListener]: Script function failed on event: com.atlassian.jira.event.issue.IssueEvent, file: <inline script>
java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke method getRelated() on null object
 at Script1546.run(Script1546.groovy:12)

Could it be because, the "Baseline Due Date" is not a user accessible field anymore ??

We recently changed the "Baseline Due Date" field to capture & lock the first Epic Due Date value. So, could it because of this, that the listener is not working as expected ?

Antoine Berry

Hi @Aisha M ,

You may use this script :

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.ModifiedValue
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.DefaultIssueChangeHolder

def issueType = issue.getIssueType().getName()
if (issueType == "Epic"){
def customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()

def dueDateValue = issue.getDueDate()
int baselineDueDateId = 10001

def baselineDueDate = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject(baselineDueDateId)
def baselineDueDateValue = issue.getCustomFieldValue(baselineDueDate)

if (!baselineDueDateValue && dueDateValue){ 
baselineDueDate.updateValue(null, issue, new ModifiedValue(baselineDueDateValue, dueDateValue), new DefaultIssueChangeHolder())

int baselineCapturedDateId = 10002
def baselineCapturedDate = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject(baselineCapturedDateId)
def baselineCapturedDateValue = issue.getCustomFieldValue(baselineCapturedDate)
def today = new java.sql.Timestamp(new Date().getTime())

baselineCapturedDate.updateValue(null, issue, new ModifiedValue(baselineCapturedDateValue, today), new DefaultIssueChangeHolder())
}
}

It will copy the value of the due date in the baseline due date field, and set the baseline captured date with the datetime at which the due date was changed.

You may want to use this script in each transition (groovy post-function) or in each listener where the the due date might be changed.

Aisha M

@Antoine Berry Thank you !!!! Works amazing . . . The 'baseline captured date' correctly gets the time stamp of whenever the "Baseline Due Date" modifies . .
But, for older issues which already has a "Baseline Due Date" present, this wont reflect right ? Coz the event is not happening for the listener to capture ?

Antoine Berry

Absolutely, if you want to fix old issues, that is a whole différent story, since you cannot use "current time". That might be possible by playing around with the data.

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