Custom data in Automation incoming webhook webResponse.body

Question

Hi all,

I've created a library of useful Automation rules, that can be called from other rules as incoming webhook, using the "Web Request" component.

Is it possible to insert a custom value in the webResponse body of the library rule?

E.g. (just a silly example):

- Let's imagine I create a "library" incoming webhook rule, which takes the current day and calculates the 1st day of next month

- From another rule, I call the first one using Web Request

- Is it possible for the first rule to return to the second rule, in the webResponse, the calculated day?

I mean: without having to store the value in an issue field or comment or similar action.

A typical webResponse includes:

WebhookResponseBean{status=200, statusCategory=SUCCESS, headers={Connection=[keep-alive], Content-Length=[0], Content-Type=[application/json], Date=[Thu, 27 Jun 2024 08:17:51 GMT], Strict-Transport-Security=, [...] body=}

, but for my incoming webHook the body value is always empty.

Best regards,

Federico

Slava Gefen · Answer

Hey @Fede B. Have you found the solution for your original need?

We've got a similar case, when we need to return a user id by it's email. We don't want to share a bearer token. As you mentioned the solution is to store this data somewhere else. A good solution would be to set up a custom web response in incoming webhook rule.

And you're right: we haven't got SR Rest Endpoints in Cloud unfirtunatelly.

With kind regards

Slava

Fede B. · Answer

Hi @Bill Sheboy,

Very interesting article, thanks for sharing it. I got more or less to the same conclusion when writing 'cascade'web request/incoming webhook rules. I found out it was easier to call the rule itself, instead of duplicating it.

But still it doesn't provide a way to customise the response body of an incoming webhook rule...

Bill Sheboy · Answer

Please this article on a dynamically looping rule using an incoming webhook trigger for an example of passing and consuming custom data:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Service-Management-articles/How-to-create-dynamic-looping-in-Automation-for-Jira/ba-p/2293077