Change/error in link directions in Jira 6?

[Karol Kleibl]

In Jira 5.x we used this groovy code to retrieve all outgoing links for an issue:

linkManager.getOutwardLinks(issue.id)

After migrating to Jira 6.2.7 the script doesn't retrieve any links, but the call to

linkManager.getInwardLinks(issue.id)

returns the same results as its opposite in Jira 5.

Was there a change in the API or it's an error we're dealing with?

Thank you for your answer.

k

[Karol Kleibl · Accepted solution]

After some investigation and some conincidence i've found out that the reason wasn't a change in the API, but a correction of a bug [JRA-24563] that was present in our previous Jira version and affected the direction of links during cloning. The upgrade do Jira 6.2 fixed the direction of 'cloners' links, but didn't affect the 'cloners' links we created manually.

To correct everything we needed to:

• correct the direction of manually created 'cloners' links (see the instructructions for MySQL DB with the corrected SQL statement)
• update all the scripts that used linkManager.getOutwardLinks() and linkManager.getInwardLinks() to their opposites