Cannot Copy Original Estimate Summation to Another Field

[Tanner Wortham]

My intent:

I want to preserve the original estimate of a feature at a point in time in the workflow. I planned to do so by copying the summation of the original estimate to a custom field during the appropriate transition. I provided several screen shots of much of what I describe below.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a custom field called Locked Estimate of type Number.*

2. Create a post function during the appropriate transition that copies summation of original estimate to locked estimate.

3. Publish this new workflow feature.

4. Create a feature with 0 hour estimate and a sub-task with 2 hour estimate.

5. Advance this feature through the post-function.

* to ensure it wasn't some kind of field type conflict, i also tried copying the value from summation of original estimate to Time Spent on the post function. I got the same result as described below.

What I expected:

I expected the value would be preserved in Locked Estimate.

What actually happened:

I received an error. You'll see it as a screenshot.

[Tanner Wortham · Accepted solution]

The code isn't pretty, but it answers the question:

import com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager
import com.atlassian.jira.security.JiraAuthenticationContextImpl
import com.atlassian.velocity.VelocityManager
import com.atlassian.jira.config.properties.ApplicationPropertiesImpl
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.AggregateOriginalEstimateSystemField
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.search.SearchProviderFactoryImpl
import com.atlassian.jira.project.DefaultProjectFactory
import com.atlassian.jira.permission.DefaultPermissionContextFactory
import com.atlassian.jira.permission.PermissionTypeManager
import com.atlassian.jira.permission.WorkflowPermissionFactory
import com.atlassian.jira.security.ThreadLocalCachingPermissionManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.AggregateTimeTrackingCalculatorFactoryImpl
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.AggregateTimeTrackingBean
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.IssueImplAggregateTimeTrackingCalculator
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomFieldImpl
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.managers.DefaultCustomFieldManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomFieldImpl
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.DefaultIssueChangeHolder
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.layout.field.DefaultFieldLayoutManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.layout.field.FieldLayoutItem
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.ModifiedValue
import com.atlassian.jira.template.velocity.DefaultVelocityTemplatingEngine

// constructing objects for getting AOE value
ComponentManager componentManager = ComponentManager.getInstance()
JiraAuthenticationContextImpl jac = componentManager.getJiraAuthenticationContext()
AggregateTimeTrackingCalculatorFactoryImpl attcfi = 
	new AggregateTimeTrackingCalculatorFactoryImpl
	(jac,new SearchProviderFactoryImpl(),new ThreadLocalCachingPermissionManager
	(new WorkflowPermissionFactory(),componentManager.getPermissionContextFactory(),
        componentManager.getProjectFactory()))
IssueImplAggregateTimeTrackingCalculator iiattc = new IssueImplAggregateTimeTrackingCalculator
	(jac,componentManager.getPermissionManager())
AggregateTimeTrackingBean bean = iiattc.getAggregates(issue)
AggregateOriginalEstimateSystemField aoesf = new AggregateOriginalEstimateSystemField
	(new DefaultVelocityTemplatingEngine(componentManager.getVelocityManager(),componentManager.getApplicationProperties()),componentManager.getApplicationProperties(),
        jac,attcfi)

/* AggregateOriginalEstimateSystemField aoesf = new AggregateOriginalEstimateSystemField
	(componentManager.getVelocityManager(),componentManager.getApplicationProperties(),
        jac,attcfi)
*/

CustomFieldImpl lockedEstimate = componentManager.getCustomFieldManager().
	getCustomFieldObject(10305)

// finally calculating the answer
Long summedEstimate = aoesf.getAggregateDuration(bean)
summedEstimate == null ? summedEstimate = 0 : summedEstimate
lockedEstimate
.updateValue (componentManager.getFieldLayoutManager().getFieldLayout(issue).getFieldLayoutItem(lockedEstimate),
	issue,new ModifiedValue(lockedEstimate.getValue(issue),summedEstimate as Double),
	new DefaultIssueChangeHolder())
        
return true