JSUTIL Field Validation using Regex on Story Points

[sjwhyter]

I want to limit the value of story points to 1.2 or 3, so I have added a Regular Expression check of 

[1-3]

But when I enter a valid number, the validation fails.

[sjwhyter · Accepted solution]

When processing the validating the value, some where during the transition the value I typed 3, became 3.0 and the regular expression of "[1-3]" failed. I changed it to "[1-3](?:\.[0-9])?" and it works.

[Steven F Behnke]

Steven, all number fields in JIRA are doubles. Apparently your regex validator didn't like comparing integers to doubles. :) https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/datatypes.html

[sjwhyter]

Steven thanks for putting me on the right path. When I looked at the transition screen, I saw the message Field Story Points with actual value 3.0 does not match regular expression "[1-3]" I figured it out the issue.

[Andrew Ripley]

Hey Steven,

Would you mind elaborating on how you fixed this? I'm having the same issue the expression I used, Option [1,2,3,5,8,13,20], resulted in the same error message stating that the numbers need to be 1.0 (when I entered 1). When I tried entering 1.0 in the field, I still got the same error message. And, again, I got the same message when I updated the expression to be: Option Option [1.0,2.0,3.0,5.0,8.0,13.0,20.0]. 

[Steven F Behnke]

Could you add an image of the validation failing? I assume it throws an error...