Scripted Field always returning Anonymous User

PhillipS

Yesterday I wrote a custom script that was returning a user based off a userName and it was working.  This morning I ran the same code and it was returning Anonymous User.  I simplified the code just to return me a static user and return it, and it still returns the Anonymous User.

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor;
import com.atlassian.jira.user.ApplicationUser

ApplicationUser u = ComponentAccessor.getUserManager().getUserByKey("XXXX")
return u

 Some things I have verified with the above code snippet:

* XXXX is my username in jira (what I use to login with - omitted for security)

* The Template type is "User Picker (single user)"

 

The interesting thing is that when I change the template type to "Text Field (multi-line)", and do the following:

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor;
import com.atlassian.jira.user.ApplicationUser

ApplicationUser u = ComponentAccessor.getUserManager().getUserByKey("XXXX")
return u.getDisplayName()

 I get what I expect. My full name

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor;
import com.atlassian.jira.user.ApplicationUser

ApplicationUser u = ComponentAccessor.getUserManager().getUserByKey("XXXX")
return u.getEmailAddress()

 I get what I expect. I get my email address

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor;
import com.atlassian.jira.user.ApplicationUser

ApplicationUser u = ComponentAccessor.getUserManager().getUserByKey("XXXX")
return u.getUserName()

 I get what I expect.  My original input "XXXX"

 

Either something really bad is happening here, or I'm missing something really simple.  Can someone please help out?

PhillipS

Very strange...I created a new scripted field, copied the first bit of code and it started working again.  My only guess is that there is a bug when constantly switching the return type between Text Field (multi-line) and User Picker (which i've been doing for debugging).