Access to issue throug vLinks custom field with groovy

[Giulio Palumbo]

Good morning, 

I'm trying to get the references of an issue (like for example a field inside that issue) through a vLinks field which gives me the reference of that issue.
is it possible to get the references of that issue through groovy?
I noticed that that field in groovy just gives me an object of type goodlink but I don't know the methods to access it.

Thanks in advance

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

What app are you using to provide the "vlinks" field type?

[Giulio Palumbo]

I use the version 2.2.1-jira8-e10de4f

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Version of what?  Which app is providing the vlink field type?

[Giulio Palumbo]

yes of vlink field type

[Giulio Palumbo]

Sorry I didn't understand, what do you mean by which app?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

The field type "vlink" is not a field type that Jira has natively.

The only way to add new types of field to Jira is by installing an app.

If you want our help with this, we need to know which app is providing the field type.  I don't recognise it from any of the apps I know about, so I can't guess what it might be.

However, I can tell you where this is likely to end up - "you'll need to look at the docs for the app that is providing the vlink type field - hopefully, they will have documented how to use the goodlink object"

[Giulio Palumbo]

sorry for the misunderstandings.

The link to the app is : https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219910/vlinks-easy-issue-linking?tab=overview&hosting=cloud

I've searched about object but i didn't find null

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Ok, I can't see any useful docs on that either, I think you may have to do this the hard way - in Java, there are ways of interrogating objects to find out what methods or properties they can have.  I have not had to do that for a long time, and can't remember how to start.

The other option is to talk to the developers of the app and see if they can share the object docs with you.

[Giulio Palumbo]

Thanks so much for the quick reply! 

Sorry if I ask you here, but by any chance there are other methods to do this ? 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Not getting at the data in the fields, no, all you can do is ask the field for its content and if that content is an object, you need to work with that object to get its attributes out.

[Giulio Palumbo]

thank you very much for the tips and the time you gave me!