Is there any way to reopen a ticket automatically through service

Question

I can create n external service from JIRA which will call my api and with some response from that API. This service will be called on closed tickets only, which i will manage.

My concern is that, can we automatically change the status of ticket(s) to reopen if response from API is false (assuming response as true/false as of now).

Kindly suggest.

Thomas Heidenreich · Answer

You could for example use the JiraSoapService from http://docs.atlassian.com/rpc-jira-plugin/latest/index.html?com/atlassian/jira/rpc/soap/JiraSoapService.html

(this is what we use at the moment as we havent switched to REST)

A simple somplete example class to use would be:

class OurJiraSoapHelper
{
	private $soap;
	private $auth;

const JIRA_SERVER 	= 'example.com';
	const JIRA_PORT 	= '8080';
	const JIRA_WSDL 	= '/rpc/soap/jirasoapservice-v2?wsdl';

public function __construct($user, $password){
		$this->soap = new SoapClient ("http://" . self::JIRA_SERVER . ":" . 
		self::JIRA_PORT . self::JIRA_WSDL, array ("style" => SOAP_RPC,"
		use" => SOAP_ENCODED,"soap_version" => SOAP_1_1,"uri" => "urn:myWS"));
		$this->auth = $this->soap->login($user, $password);
	}

public function issueReopen($issueKey){
		$this->soap->progressWorkflowAction($this->auth, $issueKey, "71", array() );
    }
}

(Provided that 71 is your action ID to reopen an issue)

Kanishk Chorari1 · Answer

Thanks Thomas,

This is really helpful. but it would be great if i can get to know the exact JIRA API and function to use, where i can found  similar type of code which you had implemented.

I hope i am clear to you.

Thomas Heidenreich · Answer

Here is some PHP code:

if ( ! $yourResponse ){
    $jiraAPI->progressWorkflowAction($auth, $issueKey, "71", array() );
}

*  $yourResponse is the mentioned response on which you want to act when it's false
* 71 is the workFlow actionid for the reopen step
* array() is an associative array of fields to be set during the transition

Hope this is better helps

Thomas