unable to add group as default watcher using Scriptrunner postfunction

Question

Hi All,

Could you please let me know if it is possible to add group as default watcher?

Below is my code , However I am getting the below error

Cannot find matching method com.atlassian.jira.issue.watche.WatcherManger#startwatching(java.lang.object, com.atlassian.jira.issue.Mutableissue)

com.atlassian.jira.security.group.GroupManager#getGroupByName (jira.lang.string)

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.watchers.WatcherManager
import com.atlassian.jira.user.util.GroupManager
import com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.Group
import com.atlassian.jira.security.groups.GroupManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.MutableIssue
import com.atlassian.jira.bc.group.search.GroupPickerSearchServiceImpl
import java.lang.String

WatcherManager watcherManager = ComponentAccessor.getWatcherManager()
GroupManager groupManager = ComponentAccessor.getGroupManager()

def watchUsers = {groupnames ->;
groupnames.each {
watcherManager.startWatching(groupManager.getGroupByName((String)it), issue)
}
}

def grp = ["groupname"]
watchUsers(grp)

Mark Markov · Answer

Hello @Shivani Chauhann
As @Nic Brough -Adaptavist- said it is not possible right now, so the only possible way is to add to watchers all users in groups, if this satisfy requirement.

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.watchers.WatcherManager
import com.atlassian.jira.security.groups.GroupManager

WatcherManager watcherManager = ComponentAccessor.getWatcherManager()
GroupManager groupManager = ComponentAccessor.getGroupManager()

def watchUsers = {groupnames ->;
    groupnames.each {
        groupManager.getUsersInGroup(groupnames).each {
            watcherManager.startWatching(it, issue)
        }
    }
}

def grp = ["groupname"]
watchUsers(grp)

Tarun Sapra · Answer

Hello @Shivani Chauhan

As Nic already shared that it's currently not possible to add groups as watchers. Please vote here for this feature request

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-12913

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Groups cannot be watchers, so the call is failing because you're trying to give the function data it does not handle.