Custom Field Update Listener

Ankit Bhasin

Hi Everyone,

I am writing a Listener which needs to capture the event(s) when the custom field ("Epic Link" from JIRA AGILE) of the issue is updated.

@EventListener
    public void onIssueEvent(IssueEvent issueEvent) {
    }

I have following questions

1. When the custom field of an issue is updated, does it fires an event which can be captured inside a listener? If yes, then how?
2. Can we create a custom event to be fired when the custom field of an issue is updated? If yes, then how?

Please advice me if we can take any of the the above approach or if there is a better way to capture the custom field update event.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

Ankit

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

1. Yes, an event is fired on every occaision a field is changed, but you'll need to trap several

2. No. Events are fired by things that happen to issues, not fields

2 is the whole point of events, they are issue changes. A field could be changed on create issue (from null to something), issue edit, during a transition, and some can change as a result of other actions.

Different actions on issues fire different events, but they may well have similar field changes.

So, what you need to do is write a listener that will catch most events that might contain a field update, and then read the contet of the change to see if the field has changed (then if it has, do your logic)