How can you update a User Picker custom field for a renamed user?

[Rick Trudeau]

Our Jira instance has groovy code that assigns values to various UserPicker custom fields.

During workflow transitions, our code essentially does:

ApplicationUser appUser = userManager.getUserByName("username")
...
issue.setCustomFieldValue(ourUserPickerCustomField, appUser)

This works, but we recently ran into a case where for a particular User it didn't work.

After looking into it, it turns out that what makes this User unique is that he had his username changed through the Jira GUI at some point.  For example, if he had been created with "username" and subsequently updated to "username2", the app_user table now looks like this:

jira=> select * from app_user where user_key not like lower_user_name;
 id | user_key | lower_user_name 
-------+-----------------------+-------------------------------
13400 | username | username2

I've verified that the appUser object is correctly retrieved from the userManager, but it seems as though setCustomFieldValue function can't find the right user to set the CF to.

I've also tried updating the CF using the updateValue method, but this seems to have the same problem.

Anyone run into this, and have a workaround?

We're on Jira 7.1.2 FWIW.  

[Joerg Strehl]

Hi @Rick Trudeau, I ran into the same problem. Is there any solution for this yet?

Thanks

[Rick Trudeau]

Nah, never heard back about this.  We had such a limited number of users who this affected that we just managed them individually.

[Joerg Strehl]

Hi @Rick Trudeau Thanks for the reply. We actually have this problem with more than 800 users.