Accessing reporter value in Velocity template

[Tim Shnaider]

Hi, I can't figure out how to access the reporter in a VM file.

During a create issue, I want to populate a specific custom field with the reporter, and don't know what to use in the VM file.

I can confirm that the 'Test text' is displayed, but I get empty strings for the following two lines.

#customControlHeader ($action $customField.id $customField.name $fieldLayoutItem.required $displayParameters $auiparams)
#if ($customField.id == "customfield_10200" )
#set ($value = $textutils.htmlEncode($!reporter))
Test text
$!reporter.getClass().getName()<br/>
$!issue.reporterUser.getName()
#end
#userPicker ($action $customField.id $value false $null "" $canPerformAjaxSearch $ajaxLimit)
#customControlFooter ($action $customField.id $fieldLayoutItem.fieldDescription $displayParameters $auiparams)

Thanks for your help, it's been driving me up the wall for hours.

[JamieA]

issue.getReporter().getName() is correct, or issue.reporter.name. If that doesn't work make the reporter is populated. Also check your log for velocity errors.

[Tim Shnaider]

Thanks, disabled the Velocity cache and enabled auto loading.

But have now decided that during a Create Issue all those values are null for a reason i.e. the issue hasn't been created yet, issue = null.

So now I'm looking to get the current user, and don't see anything obvious in the variables available in the context.

[Tim Shnaider]

With the help of this snippet posted somewhere else, I've now sorted this out. Thanks for your help Jamie.

#foreach($p in $ctx.keySet().toArray())
$p.toString() - $ctx.get($p).getClass().getName().toString()<br/>

#end
$authcontext.getLoggedInUser().getName()

[JamieA]

Ah, sorry, missed the "create transition" bit of the question.

[Tim Shnaider]

I've also tried:

$!issue.getReporter().getName(), also returns empty string

$!issue.getClass().getName() returned ....IssueImpl

[JamieA]

getReporterUser returns a different type of user, although getName should work fine.

You don't need to restart, run with -Djira.dev.mode=true.

[Tim Shnaider]

Also tried following and all return empty, even though getReporterUser is supposed to be supported for 4.3+

$!issue.getReporterUser().getClass().getName()
$!issue.getReporterUser().getName()

Having to restart JIRA each time to test is getting rather tiresome...