How to Set a Date Time Customfield by Postfunction

[Ops Lead]

Hi,

this is for info to the community: We had to set a customfield "StartTime" of type "Date Time" automatically in a postfunction via script (groovy) with the current time.

[Ops Lead · Accepted solution]

Here is the complete code. It includes a hack to share the code to be used as a postfunction and developed with Script Runner webinterface (https://jira/secure/admin/groovy/GroovyRunner.jspa) - some additional debugging code included:

import org.apache.log4j.Category
import com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.ModifiedValue
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.DefaultIssueChangeHolder

log = Category.getInstance(env="post-set-starttime.groovy") // env="SR" if used within Script Runner webinterface
// log.warn "begin"

// issue is provided by environment when used as a postfunction
if (env == "SR") issue = componentManager.getIssueManager().getIssueObject(97328)
// log.warn "issue "+issue.getKey()
cfm = componentManager.getCustomFieldManager()
ch  = new DefaultIssueChangeHolder();
cfo = cfm.getCustomFieldObjects(issue).find {it.name == 'StartTime'}
cfv = issue.getCustomFieldValue(cfo)
if (! cfv) {
  t0  = new java.sql.Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis())
  log.warn "StartTime => '"+t0.toString()+"'"
  if (env == "SR") { // Script Runner code
    mv = new ModifiedValue(cfo, t0)
    ch = new DefaultIssueChangeHolder()
    cfo.updateValue(null, issue, mv, ch)
  } else { // postfunction code
    issue.setCustomFieldValue(cfo, t0)
    issue.store()
  }
} else {
  log.warn "StartTime == '"+cfv.toString()+"'"
}
// log.warn "end"

[Vishali]

What is 97328 in getIssueObject(97328)?

[Ops Lead]

'env' is set to "SR" if we test our scripts on example data and in this case the issue with the id 97328 was our example issue.

Normally this script works as a postfunction. In this case there is no 'env' variable defined and 'issue=...' is not executed, the object issue is defined by groovy environment.