How do you access the UserEvent in a Script Listener? I'm receiving a signature error.

[Patrick S]

I'm trying to trigger an event when new user accounts are added, and am having trouble accessing the UserEvent in the listener.

I'm listening for "AutoUserCreatedEvent", "UserAuthenticatedEvent", "UserCreatedEvent", "UserEvent".

Here is a snippet of code where the error occurs.  I think the problem is that I am defining a new UserEvent, how do I access the user that is being referenced in the trigger that happened in the first place?

Code

import com.atlassian.jira.user.ApplicationUser
import com.atlassian.jira.event.AbstractEvent
import com.atlassian.jira.event.user.UserEvent


def newUserEvent = UserEvent;
def appUser = newUserEvent.getUser(); // This errors (shown below)
int userEventType = newUserEvent.getEventType(); // This errors too (not shown, same idea though)

Error 

I think the key piece here is this "applicable for argument types: () values: []".

2018-06-27 17:08:11,907 https-jsse-nio-8443-exec-5 ERROR anonymous 1028x672557x1 - xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx /rest/api/2/search/ [c.o.scriptrunner.runner.AbstractScriptListener] Script function failed on event: com.atlassian.crowd.event.user.UserAuthenticatedEvent, file: <inline script>
groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: static com.atlassian.jira.event.user.UserEvent.getUser() is applicable for argument types: () values: []
Possible solutions: getUser(), getTime(), getAt(java.lang.String), use([Ljava.lang.Object;), use(java.lang.Class, groovy.lang.Closure), use(java.util.List, groovy.lang.Closure)
 at Script90.run(Script90.groovy:11)

[Mark Markov · Accepted solution]

Hello @Patrick S

The problem here, that you dont catch event, you re just creaate User event object here.

Code must be like this

import com.atlassian.jira.user.ApplicationUser
import com.atlassian.jira.event.AbstractEvent
import com.atlassian.jira.event.user.UserEvent


def newUserEvent = event as UserEvent;
def appUser = newUserEvent.getUser(); 
int userEventType = newUserEvent.getEventType(); 

[Patrick S]

@Mark Markov - Perfect, thanks!  I knew I was overlooking something fundamental.

[Mark Markov]

You are welcome :)