Trying to use a Scripted Field value in another Scripted Field

Question

Hi dear Atlassian community,  been a long time JIRA admin, but we recently acquired ScriptRunner for jira for a new project we're working on.

On a that project, we'll have a few scripted field which are based on standard custom field.

In one of those scenarios, we have a the following setup:

- Task A

-- Scripted Field A : Value should be value of Scripted Field B

- SubTask B (Under TaskA)

-- Scripted Field B : Sum of CustomField1 and CustomField2

I basically want to show the value of scripted field of a sub-task on the parent task.

I could done the same logic on Scripted Field A, but that would duplicate my code if ever i need to do modification to the logic of Scripted Field B, i'd have 2 fields to modify, which i'm trying to avoid.

So in theory, it seems ScriptRunner supports that, but when i'm trying this, it seems like the first time i hit Preview, it doesn't work, but the second time it works.

By working here, i mean i'm able to retrieve the value of Scripted Field B from Task A.

This works in debug mode, since i can hit preview multiples times and see the result, but in the real life scenario, when i refresh Task A, the value is empty since it tries only once.

So i'm guessing this is enough context, but i'm wondering if there's something specific that i need to do in order to do that type of flow using ScriptRunner Scripted Fields.

PS.: Also tried to turn off caching like specified in the Scripted Field documentation.

Ivan Tovbin · Answer

No, not really. Basically what you'll do is fetch the value from the issue itself if it's NOT a subtask. If it is, then it first finds its parent, and then fetches the value from there.

Incidentally, in your setup, is there always ONE subtask per parent issue?

Hope this helps.

David Laperle_ian016 · Answer

Hi Ivan, first thanks for your answer.

Doing so won't I get the same problem where i'm trying to fetch data from another Scripted Field?

So wether i'm fetching Scripted Field B from Task A or Scripted Field A from SubTask B i'm in the same gray area where getting the scripted value could lead to caching/out-of-sync issues?

Ivan Tovbin · Answer

Hi David,

Have you tried to re-use your scripted field A in your sub-task, and simply modify the code to check for current issue type. If it's a standard issuetype, then grab your custom field values from it, if not, then grab them from parent. I think it'll take a single line of code to modify it:

def issue = (issue.isSubtask()) ? issue.getParentObject() : issue