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Fetching {{pullRequest.destinationBranch}}

Nareg Karamanoukian

I am trying to access the {{pullRequest.destinationBranch}} smart value in my Jira automations.

Is there a way to manually trigger a rule to fetch the pull request info (for example the destination branch name)? I know it is mentioned here that these smart values are only accessible during the Pull request created, Pull request declined and Pull request merged triggers.

Is there any workaround?

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Stefan Salzl

Hi @Nareg Karamanoukian

General question:
What would be the requirement/use case behind that?

as already mentioned this information is linked to the special event of a PR. In case it is this important to grab that information later you could create a custom field and fill in the needed information (eg. destination branch) on PR.

Another way could be (not sure about that but maybe worth giving it a shot) to call an API (eg. github Rest API) to retrieve that data via "send web request" action in A4J. I just dunno how to build the parameters/where to get the data from for the request.

Best
Stefan

Nareg Karamanoukian

Thank you @Stefan Salzl for your input.

What I would like to do is to fetch the destination branch during state transitions.

I had considered saving in a custom field, however there is no "listener" for Pull Request modified action. Sometimes developers change the destination branch of the pull request, and I'm not sure how to reflect that change in Jira.

Stefan Salzl

Got it

A kinda tricky solution that would also need some deeper configuration would be to work with webhooks inside your git solution. so eg. to send a webhook from github whenever a pull request is edited and an automation rule in jira grabs this webhook and updates your custom field with the information.

see a docu from github in the link below:
https://docs.github.com/webhooks-and-events/webhooks/webhook-events-and-payloads#pull_request

As mentioned above this needs deeper investigation and also research regarding the git solution u are using.

Hope I could still give some helpful input.

Best
Stefan

Nareg Karamanoukian

Thanks.. no direct solution sadly. Hope this gets introduced soon.

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