Plugin to create / update issues (Jira 7.1.8)

[fla_91]

How can i create or update issues within a plugin? 

i can get all the issues with JQL and i want to update (or also create a new one) some of them, if the data i get from outside are not the same

[Petar Petrov (Appfire) · Accepted solution]

What kind of plug-in are you developing - Server or Cloud?

For Server you can use the Java APIs - take a look at IssueService. For Cloud you need to use the REST APIs. Let me know if you have a more concrete question.

[fla_91]

i am developing for server

i had a look on IssueService and build this code. Am i on the right track?

IssueInputParameters parameters =  issueService.newIssueInputParameters();
parameters.setDescription("description");	//example
 
// item.getId() gets the issueId that have to be updated
UpdateValidationResult updateResult = issueService.validateUpdate(currUser, new Long(item.getId()), parameters);	//updates the issue

[Petar Petrov (Appfire)]

Yes, that's the way to do it, you just need to add the actual update invocation:

issueService.update(currUser, updateResult);

The pattern for creating an issue is the same - validateCreate() then create().

[fla_91]

thanks a lot, updating is working 

but i have some problem creating a new issue.. I add the IssueInputParameters like that, but it do not work:

private IssueInputParameters addParameters(IssueInputParameters par, Long projId) {
		
		par.setProjectId(projId); 
		par.setDescription(getDescriptionString(item));
		
		return par;
	}

have i to do anything else?

[Petar Petrov (Appfire)]

You need to call issueService.validateCreate() and then create(). What do you mean by "it does not work"? Is there an error thrown?

[fla_91]

it works now, i think the problem was i only set the project-id and the description.. after i set all the required fields (summary, issuetype, reporter-id) it created a new issue 

Another question: 
how can i set an ApplicationUser? now i set him as the logged-in one.. but later it should be always the same user with admin-permissions..

can i do it that way:

ApplicationUser currUser = userManager.getUserByName("admin");

[Petar Petrov (Appfire)]

Yes, you could do that, but you need to make sure that user has sufficient permissions to create issues. Also hardcoding users in your code has its own drawbacks - the user name may change, the user may get deleted, etc. If you really want to have a service user which will be used to create issues, maybe you should think about making that user selectable via a configuration UI so that at least it's not hardcoded in you plug-in code.

[fla_91]

ok thanks a lot for your detailed answer, i will regard this.

now i had an other prolbem: i want to set the Components and the Status of the IssueInputParameters. i do it like that:

IssueInputParameters par;
 
par.setComponentIds(getComponents(item));
par.setStatusId(getStatusId(item));
 
getComponents(Object item) {
	// gets all the components from Jira, parse them with a List from the item-object, if there is a match save it to a Long-Array and after return the Long-Array 
}
 
getStatusId(Object item) {
	// gets all statuses from Jira and parse them with the one from the item-object, returns a String with the ID of the Status from Jira
}

The methods "getComponents" and "getStatusId" return a valid Long-Array and String, i proof that... the components exist in Jira, i could select them directly from JIRA ..

Maybe you have an idea what i do wrong

thanks for your great help 

[Petar Petrov (Appfire)]

Hm, I don't think you can set the status ID like that - you'll need to transition the issue to that status after the issue is created.

You didn't mention what goes wrong - does validateCreate return errors or just the issue is created with no components?

[fla_91]

components work now. First I create an issue without components and after i update that issue with the components.. that works fine now

i try the same with the status but it do not change the status (the status i want to set is valid: f.e.: i want to set it from "Open" to "In Progress"). there are no errors about that

Another thing.. now my plugin is a Scheduler that runs every X minutes.. updating issues work but if it should create a new issue, i get this error:

Errors: {pid=Anonymous users do not have permission to create issues in this project. Please try logging in first.}

so i think i have to tell my plugin to login a user that can create issues.. but how can i do that? how can i login a user within a plugin?