Script listener does not respect project setting

Question

We have a custom script listener, which listens IssueLinkCreatedEvent in one single project.

However, the listener does not respect the project setting. The script got triggered by other project as well, and I do not see any relationship between these projects.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Leigh Grealis_yknqvv · Answer

I agree this is not going to work as expected. The issueLink[Created|Deleted]Events are not executed in the context of an issue but in the context of an issue link.

I've just stumbled across this same issue and have discovered that these event types do not extend/inherit from com.atlassian.jira.event.issue.IssueEvent but according to Atlassian API it's extended from the generic object type.

I wanted to limit the listener to only specific projects configured in the listener but there's no way it can know that information. Only check I can do is to examine both sides of the link, look at the keys and determine their issue type / project key and make an intelligent assumption...and assumptions are the mother of all **** :(

Don't see this as a scriptrunner bug as such, I think it's just the way that Atlassian have decided to implement. It would be great if these link events could have some information on the issue context which they have been invoked from. This is probably do-able from within the UI (where you're managing links from a specific issue) but definitely wouldn't work in the API/REST where the abstraction takes that information away.

Ivan Tovbin · Answer

I'd suggest contacting add on vendor for that. Perhaps it might be a bug.

Ge Bai_f2kvz5 · Answer

Hi Ivan,

Thanks for the reply! I'll try that.

That is strange that the project key section in listener setting does not take effect, and we have to wrap project key condition check inside our script.