ContentPermissionEvent: Telling add/remove events apart

[Manuel Bähnisch]

I'd like to record permission changes on pages. I already found this https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-19721 but figured I might be able to implement something myself with the help of the Scriptrunner Addon.

I created a custom Event which listens to the ContentPermissionEvent being fired. Generally speaking it would be enough to log something to console stating how a permission was changed. I also found out that the confluence database keeps the set of page permissions, whereas no entry means "full permissions and EDIT/VIEW are written according to what I configured.

The following shows the script that I got so far.

import com.atlassian.confluence.event.events.security.ContentPermissionEvent
import com.atlassian.confluence.core.ContentEntityObject
import org.apache.log4j.Logger
import org.apache.log4j.Level
import com.atlassian.user.User

// create Loglistener
def log = Logger.getLogger("com.company.CustomContentPermissionEventListener")
log.setLevel(Level.INFO)

def event = event as ContentPermissionEvent
def contentid = event.content.idAsString
def contentPermission = event.contentPermission

def permissionString

//group our user
if(contentPermission.groupPermission){
permissionString = "Group: " + contentPermission.groupName
}else{
permissionString = "User: " + contentPermission.userName
}

//type
permissionString = permissionString + ", Type: " + contentPermission.type

// Log data from Event
log.info("PermissionEvent registered for PageId " + contentid + ", details: " + permissionString)

Apparently the event seems to be not smart enough to tell adding and removing permissions apart. In both cases the log entry is the same. Is there a way to tell them apart?

Thanks allot for any pointers.

[Ekaterina Berezutskaya]

Hello Manuel! Did you find the answer? Is it possible to know whether the permission has been added or removed?

[Manuel Bähnisch]

Hello Ekaterina, 

sorry, found no solution back then. To be honest I didn't look further into it. So there might be a solution now, that I don't know of.