entry validation

[gil]

What's the best way to validate the data entry of a text field?

[RambanamP]

what do you want to validate?

the best way is using validators.

check this you can get few validator to validate fields

https://jsutil.atlassian.net/wiki/display/JSUTIL/JIRA+Suite+Utilities+Workflow+Validators

and you can develop your won validator

check this document to know how to develop validators

http://www.j-tricks.com/1/post/2010/08/workflow-validator.html

and even you do this by using script runner plugin

https://jamieechlin.atlassian.net/wiki/display/GRV/Validators

and one more way is using behaviour plugin

https://jamieechlin.atlassian.net/wiki/display/JBHV/JIRA+Behaviours+Plugin

[Radu Dumitriu]

Check this: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.keplerrominfo.jira.plugins.keplercf (free)

It offers a Regex field

[Bharadwaj Jannu]

its good idea making your own plugin meeting your requirement.

you write a workflow validator which work only when creation.

now what you need to do is, you get the customfield value from the issue object and try to validate using java Pattern class.

e.g:

Object PackageNumber = issue.getCustomFieldValue(cfm.getCustomFieldObjectByName("Package Number"));

String PackageType =  issue.getCustomFieldValue(cfm.getCustomFieldObjectByName("Package Type")).toString();

if(PackageType.toLowerCase().equals("gca") && Pattern.matches("[0-9]{2}\\.[0-9]{2}\\.[0-9]{2}\\.0{3}$",PackageNumber.toString()) == false)

{	
    CustomFieldManager cfm=ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager();

e.addError(cfm.getCustomFieldObjectByName("Package Number").getId(), "For 'GCA' Build Requests, Package Number must be ##.##.##.000 (i.e., major.minor.maintenance.eFix) where the eFix digits are always 3 zeroes. Moreover, no alpha characters are allowed anywhere in the Package Number. Example 'GCA' Package Numbers include 14.00.00.000 and 14.10.00.000");

    validityFlag = false;
}

if(validityFlag == false)
{	
        		
    e.addError("Field validation failed");
        		
    throw e;
}

Here I'm reading two customfields Package Type and Package Name.If the Package Type is 'GCA', then Package Number should be something like this xx.xx.xx.000

[gil]

I want to validate entry in a free text field and make sure it's in a certain pattern before the input is accept. For example, it must be abc-123, thus start with some letters, then follow by a dash, and a number.

I don't think the JIRA Suite Utilities will do this kind of pattern validation?

Then the only option left is to write my own plugin or do the script runner.

I don't think behaviour plugin will do the job neither. Correct me if I am wrong.