Greetings, community!
My teammates have increased use of automation for JIRA to solve many problems, and early on we noticed the race condition errors with the Create Issue trigger. When this happens, the issue's fields are not fully loaded/available at the time of rule processing. Our work-around is to place a Re-fetch action immediately after the trigger.
As we become more reliant on the rules working, we want to pro-actively add re-fetches where needed.
Which other triggers have people used where you observed a race condition error?
Thanks for any information you can provide!
Hi Bill,
We recently ran into a race condition using Automation for Jira (Server). When the issue is created based on a field value, we transition it to the next status (in our case we use the automation to transition from Incoming Queue to the DBA queue).
Almost always we were finding that the status transitioned but the visible status was incorrect (displayed Incoming Queue) but in fact it was in DBA Queue. Every now and then it worked. We thought it might be related to some 3rd party post functions but couldn't really nail it down to anything. Re-fetch did not help.
After many weeks with Atlassian we gave up after the explanation of "race condition". Instead I set up an automation rule in the Service Desk automation to transition to DBA Queue and that has worked 100% of the time.
Hope that helps...
Thanks, @Susan Hauth _Jira Queen_ for the idea.
I expect that other than re-fetch, another work-around is to split processing between multiple rules, forcing a slow down until data is present for processing.
We recently saw a different race-track symptom, with random unsaved changes errors during rule execution. Support told us this is was API performance-related and that they expected this to improve with the on-going performance changes by the development team. My hope is that the performance changes are accompanied by transaction improvements in the API so triggers do not get fired out of temporal sequence, as they appear to do with Create Issue currently.
Best regards,
Bill
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Hi @Bill Sheboy ,
Thanks for the info, and there are a few race condition Bugs we are currently aware of, that you can check out a "THIS LINK" .
But overall any time you can trigger a race condition we do want to file it as a bug if we can reproduce the behavior so we can work on fixing it.
Do you happen to have a little more detail of how the rule is set up so I can take a closer look and get this one filed as a new bug.
Regards,
Earl
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Thanks for the info. The link you provided shows as invalid/blocked for me. Would you please update it? Will that information show other triggers which have timing issues?
Regarding your question about details for race conditions, I know of two specific scenarios:
If there are other scenarios, perhaps the community can post them to help with rule execution improvements. Thank you!
Best regards,
Bill
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