How to get details for validators via groovy

Question

Hello,

I have found thanks to this thread : https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-to-execute-all-the-validators-defined-in-the-Workflow/qaq-p/892011

that I can use the "getValidators()" method to the the validators associated to a transition. However, it returns me the validator object (I assume), and I want the name and the description of what it does.

Example:

allStatuses.each { status -> 
def relatedActions = eachWorkflowObject.getLinkedStep(status).getActions()
log.warn("For the status " + status.name + " the available transitions are: " + relatedActions)

relatedActions.each { it ->
def validators = it.getValidators()
log.warn("For the transition " + it + " the validators are: " + validators)

}

For the transition Close Issue (resolveissue) the validators are: [com.opensymphony.workflow.loader.ValidatorDescriptor@3e54be25]

That;s great, but I would love to get information like:

For the transition Close Issue (resolveissue) the validators are:  resolution field is mandatory.

I tried with it.getValidators()*.name , or validators.name and it is blank.

What are the properties accepted by a validator, or the functions that can be used to get a readable description of the validator?

Thank you!

Hans Pesata · Answer

Hi!

Thanks for the very valid information within this post!

I would also need to iterate the "postfunctions", but using

transitionProperties.postfunctions.each

doesn't work.

Any idea how to get the postfunctions ?

Thanx in advance!

Regards, Hans

Hans Pesata · Answer

Hi!

Thanks for the very valid information within this post!

I would also need to iterate the "postfunctions", but using

transitionProperties.postfunctions.each

doesn't work.

Any idea how to get the postfunctions ?

Thanx in advance!

Regards, Hans

Ken McClean · Answer

You were really close! You can use dot notation to get the information you're after. From the script below, you can see that when we get to transitionProperties, i.e. the properties for each transition, we can access the validators for each by simply creating a closure using transitionProperties.validators.each Within that closure, we see that we can further access the arguments of the validator by calling valid.properties.args. This results in output like so: {nullallowed=true, permissionKey=ADMINISTER_PROJECTS, vars.key=, class.name=com.atlassian.jira.workflow.validator.UserPermissionValidator} Clearly the args would be different for every different kind of validator, but that should get you close. import com.atlassian.jira.workflow.WorkflowManager import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor def workflowManager = ComponentAccessor.getComponent(WorkflowManager) def wf = workflowManager.getWorkflow("") //wf is the workflow itself def statuses = wf.getLinkedStatusObjects() //statuses are the statuses available to that workflow statuses.each { status -> //For each status associated with the workflow def relatedActions = wf.getLinkedStep(status).getActions() //relatedActions is the set of actions (transitions) associated with each status log.warn("For the status " + status.name + " the available transitions are: " + relatedActions) relatedActions.each { it -> //For each related transition, we need the validators associated with the def transitionProperties = it.properties transitionProperties.validators.each { valid -> log.warn(valid.properties.args) } } }