Referencing the same scripted file

albertogarci86

Hi,

I have created an scripted file "FamilyID" that have to check if itself has a previous value. When I reference to the scripted field I received a: java.lang.StackOverflowError

 

This is my code:

CustomFieldManager customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()


CustomField FamilyID = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjectByName("FamilyID")


return FamilyID.getValue(issue)

 

Is it possible to reference for the same custom field into an scripted field?

Regards

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

You get a stack overflow because your code calls out to get the field which runs your code that calls out to get the field which runs your code that calls out to get the field...

That recursion stops when the process runs out of working space in which to repeat itself.

What you're doing sounds like nonsense to me - a scripted field is there to work something out to display to the user.  By definition, if it has a previous value, it has changed, so it's always going to be trying to work out something.  But, scripted fields don't have a history because they are not data, they're a calculation.

You need to think about what you're really trying to do - I suspect you really mean that you want to look an issue and work out if something on the issue has changed in a way that you need to pull out.