JIRA Watcher List

Question

In JIRA 7.8, I use ScriptRunner to create a post function trigger.  When a user transitions from Open to In Progress, it will add a watcher to the watcher list. Everything works fine. I can remove this added user to the watcher list. However, if I transition back to Open, and then transition again to In Progress, this auto-added watcher cannot be removed from the watch list. The code to add user to the watcher list is as follows:

WatcherManager watcherManager = ComponentAccessor.getWatcherManager();
ApplicationUser user = ComponentAccessor.getUserManager().getUserByKey("testuser1");
watcherManager.startWatching(user, issue);

I even tried to remove that added user from the list, before going back to Open and to In Progress, still same problem.

gil · Answer

Yes this user has the manage watcher permission.

Alexey Matveev · Answer

Maybe, the user, under whom you are trying to remove watchers, does not have the manage watcher list permission for the project.

gil · Answer

Correct.  No watcher can be removed when this happens.