update summary through scripted post-function

[WindHub Support]

I am trying to create a scripted post-function to update the summary by adding a PREFIX and a SUFFIX to the original summary.

By navigating through some other posts I got to this code: 

import com.atlassian.jira.event.type.EventDispatchOption
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.MutableIssue
import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.user.ApplicationUser

IssueManager im = ComponentAccessor.getIssueManager()
MutableIssue currentIssue = im.getIssueObject(issue.key) as MutableIssue
ApplicationUser loggedInUser = ComponentAccessor.getJiraAuthenticationContext().getLoggedInUser()

def originalSummary = currentIssue.getSummary()
def newSummary = "PREFIX" + "-" + originalSummary + "-" + "SUFFIX"
currentIssue.setSummary(newSummary)
im.updateIssue(loggedInUser, currentIssue, EventDispatchOption.DO_NOT_DISPATCH, false)

when I test it in the "Scripted (Groovy) Operation on Issue Post-function" it seems to work fine as it actually changes the summary.

but when I try the transition, the Summary field shows to be updated in the issue's history but the actual Summary of the issue remains unchanged.

Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong here?

[Radek Dostál · Accepted solution]

I think I might have an idea. You should already be getting the MutableIssue in binding.

What this does now, I think, is that it updates the issue, and then the workflow transition updates the issue again with the "old" data, thus overwritting the summary back.

Don't get a new issue object, use just the binding variable, so the whole script could look as simple as this:

issue.setSummary("PREFIX"+"-"+issue.getSummary()+"-"+"SUFFIX")

And no need to use IssueManager to update the issue - the workflow transition will do that if you place the post-function at the beginning of the order.

[WindHub Support]

you were correct. Thanks a lot!

[Graham Twine]

This just needs to happen before the The "Index Issue" Post function.

The order things happen in post functions is somewhat important

[Ian Carlos]

Try changing

MutableIssue currentIssue = im.getIssueObject(issue.key) as MutableIssue

By

MutableIssue currentIssue = im.getIssueObject(issue.id) as MutableIssue

Let me know if it worked!

Hope it does!

[Radek Dostál]

Both will return the same object. If this was not working, there would be a nullpointer exception in runtime.