Older versions of Jira how do you set logged in user?

[steve labar]

I'm trying to make my plugin that is compatible with versions 4.4 to 5.0. I'm trying to get it available down to 4.2. I noticed that the following method is not available:

getJiraAuthenticationContext().setLoggedInUser(user);

Any ideas how you do this? I need to log a user in before I can automate the creation of an issue with that user being the assignee.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

You will need to create a different version of the plugin. JIRA 4.2 uses OSUser and you will have to use setUser method.

http://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/4.2/com/atlassian/jira/security/JiraAuthenticationContext.html#setUser%28com.opensymphony.user.User%29

In JIRA5, this method is not available.

[steve labar]

So, the top is how i did it in version 4.5+ Below it is how it be done in earlier versions.

		ComponentAccessor.getJiraAuthenticationContext().setLoggedInUser(user);//log user in
		user = ComponentAccessor.getJiraAuthenticationContext().getLoggedInUser();//grab reference to the logged in user

user = compManager.getUserUtil().getUser((String) issueData.get(ASSIGNEE_FIELD));//grab user
		compManager.getJiraAuthenticationContext().setUser(user);//log user in