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Groovy : Set Cascading Field Value

Hi everybody,

After looking for a solution myslef, I'm kind out of idea right now. Here's the situation :

Environment : Jira 5.2.11 / Script Runner 2.1.15

When creating an issue, (in post-function) I want to :

- Extract values from a cascading select field (Nature of the Request - cf id:17000)

- Check if the word 'QlikView' is in the first value

- Update another cascading field (System and Sub-System - cf id 11201) with values (existing in the field configuration, let's say Data - QlikView)

So far, I have this script I modified to fit my needs, BUT the updating process doesn't manage to update the cf 11201 value.

When checking the script with the script console, I don't have any error message and it gives me back the correct value (Data - QlikView).

But when I put the script in the workflow, the value isn't updated in the cf 11201

// and if I look at the logs, i have the following message :

// Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/opensymphony/user/User

// --> caused by a plugin old version

Do you have any clues about what's wrong?

Thanks!

import org.apache.log4j.Category
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.MutableIssue
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.DefaultIssueChangeHolder
import com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.ModifiedValue
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.IssueChangeHolder
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.CustomFieldManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.layout.field.FieldLayoutItem
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.manager.OptionsManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.view.CustomFieldParams
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.view.CustomFieldParamsImpl 
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.layout.field.FieldLayoutStorageException
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.impl.CascadingSelectCFType 
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.option.Option
import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.opensymphony.workflow.WorkflowContext;


MutableIssue issue = issue

CustomFieldManager cfManager2 = ComponentManager.getInstance().getCustomFieldManager()
// name of the first cascading field I will extract the value in order to check it
CustomField cf2 = cfManager2.getCustomFieldObject(17000)
String first = issue.getCustomFieldValue(cf2)?.values()*.value[0]
String second = issue.getCustomFieldValue(cf2)?.values()*.value[1]

// name of the cascading field where I want to put my new value
CustomField categoryCF = ComponentManager.getInstance().getCustomFieldManager().getCustomFieldObjectByName("Système et sous-système"); 
CustomFieldParams cfVal = issue.getCustomFieldValue(categoryCF) as CustomFieldParams

if (categoryCF == null || !(categoryCF.getCustomFieldType() instanceof CascadingSelectCFType)) {

log.error("Expected customfield doesn't exist or doesn't have the expected type.");

}
   
OptionsManager optionsManager = ComponentAccessor.getOptionsManager();

Option parentOptionObj = optionsManager.findByOptionId(11124); // value to put in first list     

Option childOptionObj = optionsManager.findByOptionId(11211);  // value to put in second list    

Map&lt;String,Object&gt; newValues = new HashMap&lt;String, String&gt;();

// checking if the value in the first cascading field is correct
if (first.contains('QlikView')) {

newValues.put(null, parentOptionObj); 
newValues.put("1", childOptionObj); 
// then updating the second cascading field with new values
categoryCF.updateValue(null, issue, new ModifiedValue(cfVal,newValues), new DefaultIssueChangeHolder());

issue.store()
}

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Ok, if you want to update a blank cascading select field, you just have to put in comment the following lines :

// Object cValue = categoryCF.getValue(cIssue);

// if (cValue == null) {
// log.error("Expected customfield doesn't have any value.");
// }

and replace the last line of the script with :

categoryCF.updateValue(null, cIssue, new ModifiedValue(null, newValues), new DefaultIssueChangeHolder());

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Hi,

Using ComponentAccessor now

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
//(...)

CustomFieldManager customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()
//(...)

def CUSTOM_FIELD_ID = 11201; // set your Cascading Select custom field Id

//Get your Cascading Select CF Object
def categoryCF = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject(CUSTOM_FIELD_ID);

If we want to find the Parent and the child Options Object from the string of their context label :

// if you know or you find these strings
String stParentOption = "Targeted parent option";
String stChildOption = "Targeted child option of the selected parent";

// you'll be able to find their Options objects as below
// null as parentId to find the string into the parent options list of the context
Option parentOptionObj = optionsManager.getOptions(categoryCF.getRelevantConfig(cIssue)).getOptionForValue(stParentOption,null)

// knowing the parent Option object, you'll find the children on its Id
Option childOptionObj = optionsManager.getOptions(myCascadingCf.getRelevantConfig(cIssue)).getOptionForValue(stChildOption,parentOptionObj.optionId)

and I add how I store it

def newValues = new HashMap();
newValues.put(null, parentOptionObj);
newValues.put("1", childOptionObj);

classificationObj.updateValue(null, cIssue, new ModifiedValue(null, newValues), changeHolder);

// deprecated way to store the issue 
cIssue.store()
// to be updated with something like
// issueManager.updateIssue(cUser, cIssue, EventDispatchOption.DO_NOT_DISPATCH, false);

have fun

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Which of the scripts above could be used to copy the contents of a select list (single) to a select list (cascading), changing from a single entry to a map form?

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A script below I used to copy values from a source Cascading Select CF, named "Classification Incident", to a target one, named "Classification", using a JQL query filter

/**
 * Created by robert_mota on 18/12/2014.
 * Script to use one shot to copy "Classification Incident" CF
 * into "Classification"
 *
 * Prerequisite : all the values of the source Cascading Select CF 
 * must be in context configuration of the target CF
 */
import com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.User
import com.atlassian.jira.bc.issue.search.SearchService
import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.event.type.EventDispatchOption
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.CustomFieldManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.MutableIssue
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.manager.OptionsManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.option.Option
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.DefaultIssueChangeHolder
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.IssueChangeHolder
import com.atlassian.jira.web.bean.PagerFilter
import org.apache.log4j.Level
import org.apache.log4j.Logger
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.ModifiedValue

CustomFieldManager customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()
IssueChangeHolder changeHolder = new DefaultIssueChangeHolder();

Logger log = Logger.getLogger("com.onresolve.jira.groovy")
log.setLevel(Level.DEBUG)

log.debug("Begin: Fix Classification ****************************");

OptionsManager optionsManager = ComponentAccessor.getOptionsManager();

// to test on 1 issue
//jqlSearch = "project = CSI AND issuetype = incident AND \"Classification Incident\" is not EMPTY and Classification is not EMPTY and key in (CSI-23015)"
// to run on all issues of the search
jqlSearch = "project = CSI AND issuetype = incident AND \"Classification Incident\" is not EMPTY and Classification is not EMPTY"

SearchService searchService = ComponentAccessor.getComponent(SearchService.class)

// ComponentAccessor.getJiraAuthenticationContext().getUser() returns an ApplicationUser
// To get the User needed for SearchService below, use getDirectoryUser() method
User user = ComponentAccessor.getJiraAuthenticationContext().getUser().getDirectoryUser()

IssueManager issueManager = ComponentAccessor.getIssueManager()

if (!user) {
    log.debug("User not found ****************************");
    return false;
}

SearchService.ParseResult parseResult =  searchService.parseQuery(user, jqlSearch)
if (parseResult.isValid()) {
    def searchResult = searchService.search(user, parseResult.getQuery(), PagerFilter.getUnlimitedFilter())
    // Transform issues from DocumentIssueImpl to the "pure" form IssueImpl (some methods don't work with DocumentIssueImps)
    def issues = searchResult.issues.collect {issueManager.getIssueObject(it.id)}
    issues.each {
        MutableIssue incident = it as MutableIssue;

        // Source CF named "Classification Incident" id = 10490
        def classificationIncidentObj = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjectByName("Classification Incident");
        // to use ID
        //def classificationIncidentObj = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject(10490);

        // Target CF cible Classification id = 10367
        def classificationObj = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjectByName("Classification");
        //def classificationObj = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObject(10367);

        def classificationIncident = classificationIncidentObj.getValue(incident);
        //log.debug ("\n      Incident: Classification Incident Parent: " + classificationIncident.get(null));
        //log.debug ("\n      Incident: Classification Incident Child: " + classificationIncident.get("1"));

        String stParentOption = classificationIncident.get(null);
        String stChildOption = classificationIncident.get("1");
        //log.debug ("\n      Incident: stParentOption = " + stParentOption);
        //log.debug ("\n      Incident: stChildOption = " + stChildOption);

        Option parentOptionObj = optionsManager.getOptions(classificationObj.getRelevantConfig(incident)).getOptionForValue(stParentOption,null)
        //log.debug ("\n      Target Parent Classification = " + parentOptionObj);

        Option childOptionObj = optionsManager.getOptions(classificationObj.getRelevantConfig(incident)).getOptionForValue(stChildOption,parentOptionObj.optionId)
        //log.debug ("\n      Target Classification child ("+ parentOptionObj + ") = " + childOptionObj);

        def newValues = new HashMap();
        newValues.put(null, parentOptionObj);
        newValues.put("1", childOptionObj);

        //log.debug ("\n      Target Classification Parent new value: " + newValues.get(null));
        //log.debug ("\n      Target Classification Child new value: " + newValues.get("1"));

        // To store it
        classificationObj.updateValue(null, incident, new ModifiedValue(null, newValues), changeHolder);

        // deprecated method to store issues
        //incident.store()

        // new way to store issues
        issueManager.updateIssue(user, incident, EventDispatchOption.DO_NOT_DISPATCH, false);
    }
} else {
    log.debug("Invalid JQL: " + jqlSearch);
    return false;
}
log.debug("End: Fix Classification ****************************");
return true;

Regards

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Rambanam, because you proposed some solutions for the previous problems, I give you the karma points.

Thanks again! (thanks also to Bharadwaj!)

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Ok, I made some progress. Right now, this script can modify the value of a cascading select field already containing values. I have now to make it work with an empty field.

Hope this first script can help some people :

import org.apache.log4j.Category
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.MutableIssue
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.DefaultIssueChangeHolder
import com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.ModifiedValue
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.IssueChangeHolder
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.CustomFieldManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.layout.field.FieldLayoutItem
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.manager.OptionsManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.view.CustomFieldParams
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.view.CustomFieldParamsImpl 
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.layout.field.FieldLayoutStorageException
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.impl.CascadingSelectCFType 
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.option.Option
import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.User;


MutableIssue cIssue = issue

// get customfield
CustomField categoryCF = ComponentManager.getInstance().getCustomFieldManager().getCustomFieldObject(11201);
 
if (categoryCF == null || !(categoryCF.getCustomFieldType() instanceof CascadingSelectCFType)) {
log.error("Expected customfield doesn't exist or doesn't have the expected type.");
}
 
OptionsManager optionsManager = (OptionsManager)ComponentManager.getComponentInstanceOfType(OptionsManager.class);
// get customfield value
Object cValue = categoryCF.getValue(cIssue);

if (cValue == null) {
log.error("Expected customfield doesn't have any value.");
}

Option parentOptionObj = optionsManager.findByOptionId(11124); // get first value to input    

Option childOptionObj = optionsManager.findByOptionId(11211);  // get second value to input     

Map&lt;String,Object&gt; newValues = new HashMap&lt;String, String&gt;();

newValues.put(null, parentOptionObj); //input value in first dropdown

newValues.put("1", childOptionObj); // input value in second dropdown

//update issue and save modifications in database
categoryCF.updateValue(null, cIssue, new ModifiedValue(cValue, newValues), new DefaultIssueChangeHolder()); 
issue.store()

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check the "setFieldValue" method on following class, i hope it will help you

https://github.com/atlassian/jira-suite-utilities/blob/master/src/main/java/com/googlecode/jsu/util/WorkflowUtils.java

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Thanks Rambanam, i'll check and let you know! :)

Cheers!

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Thanks Bharadwaj, I followed your advice, but still having troubles to make my script working.

In the logs, I have now a NullPointerException, which I don't get because it works in the Script Console.

Any ideas?

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Hi, thanks to both of you.

The opensymphony error was generated by one plugin (condition validator) which was in an old version (because I don't use it, I've dactivated it) BUT, my script still doesn't update the cascading select field.

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yes in the workflow transition you check any other validators or postfunctions present.

Eventhough you disabled, those were not removed from the transition. You need to manually remove them.

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The above script appear to be correct for me.

You check any validator script running in the transition which uses com/opensymphony/user/User object.

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it should be import com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.User; as prasad suggested

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you have to use following import

import com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.User;

opensymphony user has deprecated!!

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