Scriptrunner Create Sub-task not working properly

[Jorge Rivero]

I *think* I may have discovered a scenario in which the current "Create a sub-task" listener does not work.

This is my setup:

In my workflow, as a validator for create issues I have the following piece of code:

if (issue.getIssueTypeObject().isSubTask()) {
	if (issue.getParentObject().issueTypeObject.name == 'Sticky Task' || issue.getParentObject().issueTypeObject.name == 'Dreams & Ideas') {
		return false;}
              
        else {
        	return true;
             }
          }
else {
return true;
}

The above code is tried and true: It does not allow Sub-task issue types for those two issue types mentioned.

Now, I am attempting to create a listener that, whenever an issue is updated and certain criteria is met, a set of sub-tasks are created. However, the sub-tasks are not creating. Looking at the logs, I am seeing that the reason why the sub-tasks are not being created is because of my validator above (error description below).

Any thoughts why the validator is working properly through the interface, but it's preventing a script listener to create a Sub-task properly?

Thank you for your help!

2014-03-14 17:38:06,480 http-bio-8080-exec-557 ERROR jrivero 1058x95924x1 1bs1w89 192.168.0.59 /secure/QuickEditIssue.jspa [atlassian.event.internal.AsynchronousAbleEventDispatcher] There was an exception thrown trying to dispatch event 'com.atlassian.jira.event.issue.IssueEvent@6b08461[issue=AS-2527,comment=<null>,worklog=<null>,changelog=[GenericEntity:ChangeGroup][id,88908][author,jrivero][created,2014-03-14 17:38:06.402][issue,24508],eventTypeId=2,sendMail=true,params={eventsource=action, baseurl=http://jira:8080},subtasksUpdated=true]' from the invoker 'SingleParameterMethodListenerInvoker{method=public void com.onresolve.jira.groovy.listener.ScriptRunnerUberListener.workflowEvent(com.atlassian.jira.event.issue.IssueEvent), listener=com.onresolve.jira.groovy.listener.ScriptRunnerUberListener@209a531c}'.
java.lang.RuntimeException: Error occurred while creating issue through workflow: You may not create a Sub-task for the parent issue type.
	at com.atlassian.event.internal.SingleParameterMethodListenerInvoker.invoke(SingleParameterMethodListenerInvoker.java:54)
	at com.atlassian.event.internal.AsynchronousAbleEventDispatcher$2.run(AsynchronousAbleEventDispatcher.java:66)
	at com.atlassian.event.internal.AsynchronousAbleEventDispatcher$1.execute(AsynchronousAbleEventDispatcher.java:32)
	at com.atlassian.event.internal.AsynchronousAbleEventDispatcher.dispatch(AsynchronousAbleEventDispatcher.java:60)
	at com.atlassian.event.internal.EventPublisherImpl.invokeListeners(EventPublisherImpl.java:160)
	at com.atlassian.event.internal.EventPublisherImpl.publish(EventPublisherImpl.java:79)
	at com.atlassian.multitenant.event.DefaultPeeringEventPublisherManager.publish(DefaultPeeringEventPublisherManager.java:17)
	at com.atlassian.multitenant.event.PeeringEventPublisher.publish(PeeringEventPublisher.java:23)
	at com.atlassian.jira.event.issue.DefaultIssueEventManager.publishEvent(DefaultIssueEventManager.java:124)
	at com.atlassian.jira.event.issue.DefaultIssueEventManager.dispatchEvent(DefaultIssueEventManager.java:102)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.DefaultIssueUpdater.doUpdate(DefaultIssueUpdater.java:88)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.managers.DefaultIssueManager.doUpdate(DefaultIssueManager.java:598)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.managers.DefaultIssueManager.updateIssue(DefaultIssueManager.java:584)
	at com.atlassian.jira.bc.issue.DefaultIssueService.update(DefaultIssueService.java:272)
	at com.atlassian.jira.bc.issue.DefaultIssueService.update(DefaultIssueService.java:246)  <+2> (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at com.atlassian.multitenant.impl.MultiTenantComponentFactoryImpl$AbstractMultiTenantAwareInvocationHandler.invokeInternal(MultiTenantComponentFactoryImpl.java:181)
	at com.atlassian.multitenant.impl.MultiTenantComponentFactoryImpl$MultiTenantAwareInvocationHandler.invoke(MultiTenantComponentFactoryImpl.java:211)
	at $Proxy396.update(Unknown Source)  <+2> (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at com.atlassian.plugin.osgi.hostcomponents.impl.DefaultComponentRegistrar$ContextClassLoaderSettingInvocationHandler.invoke(DefaultComponentRegistrar.java:129)
	at $Proxy396.update(Unknown Source)  <+2> (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at com.atlassian.plugin.osgi.bridge.external.HostComponentFactoryBean$DynamicServiceInvocationHandler.invoke(HostComponentFactoryBean.java:154)
	at $Proxy396.update(Unknown Source)
	at com.atlassian.jira.quickedit.action.QuickEditIssue.doExecute(QuickEditIssue.java:136)  <+1> (ActionSupport.java:165)
	at com.atlassian.jira.action.JiraActionSupport.execute(JiraActionSupport.java:82)  <+7> (DefaultInterceptorChain.java:39) (NestedInterceptorChain.java:31) (ChainedInterceptor.java:16) (DefaultInterceptorChain.java:35) (GenericDispatcher.java:221) (GenericDispatcher.java:150) (JiraWebworkActionDispatcher.java:153)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)  <+14> (ApplicationFilterChain.java:305) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (ChainedFilterStepRunner.java:78) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (XContentTypeOptionsNoSniffFilter.java:22) (AbstractHttpFilter.java:31) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (HeaderSanitisingFilter.java:44) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (IteratingFilterChain.java:46) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:66)
	at com.atlassian.labs.botkiller.BotKillerFilter.doFilter(BotKillerFilter.java:36)  <+3> (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:74) (IteratingFilterChain.java:42) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:66)
	at com.atlassian.jira.tzdetect.IncludeResourcesFilter.doFilter(IncludeResourcesFilter.java:39)  <+3> (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:74) (IteratingFilterChain.java:42) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:66)
	at com.atlassian.jira.baseurl.IncludeResourcesFilter.doFilter(IncludeResourcesFilter.java:40)  <+8> (AbstractHttpFilter.java:31) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:74) (IteratingFilterChain.java:42) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:66) (ContextFilter.java:25) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:74) (IteratingFilterChain.java:42) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:66)
	at com.atlassian.mywork.client.filter.ServingRequestsFilter.doFilter(ServingRequestsFilter.java:37)  <+20> (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:74) (IteratingFilterChain.java:42) (ServletFilterModuleContainerFilter.java:77) (ServletFilterModuleContainerFilter.java:63) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (AccessLogFilter.java:103) (AccessLogFilter.java:87) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (XsrfTokenAdditionRequestFilter.java:54) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (SiteMeshFilter.java:129) (SiteMeshFilter.java:77) (SitemeshPageFilter.java:124) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (IteratingFilterChain.java:46) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:66)
	at com.atlassian.labs.remoteapps.modules.permissions.ApiScopingFilter.doFilter(ApiScopingFilter.java:60)  <+32> (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:74) (IteratingFilterChain.java:42) (ServletFilterModuleContainerFilter.java:77) (ServletFilterModuleContainerFilter.java:63) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (SecurityFilter.java:234) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (TrustedApplicationsFilter.java:98) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (BaseLoginFilter.java:169) (JiraLoginFilter.java:70) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (IteratingFilterChain.java:46) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:66) (OAuthFilter.java:55) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:74) (IteratingFilterChain.java:42) (ServletFilterModuleContainerFilter.java:77) (ServletFilterModuleContainerFilter.java:63) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (ProfilingFilter.java:99) (JIRAProfilingFilter.java:19) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (AbstractJohnsonFilter.java:71) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
	at org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.RuleChain.handleRewrite(RuleChain.java:176)
	at org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.RuleChain.doRules(RuleChain.java:145)
	at org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriter.processRequest(UrlRewriter.java:92)  <+9> (UrlRewriteFilter.java:394) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (GzipFilter.java:80) (GzipFilter.java:51) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (IteratingFilterChain.java:46) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:66)
	at com.atlassian.labs.remoteapps.modules.oauth.OAuth2LOFilter.doFilter(OAuth2LOFilter.java:70)  <+3> (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:74) (IteratingFilterChain.java:42) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:66)
	at com.atlassian.labs.remoteapps.util.http.bigpipe.RequestIdSettingFilter.doFilter(RequestIdSettingFilter.java:22)  <+43> (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:74) (IteratingFilterChain.java:42) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:66) (JWDSendRedirectFilter.java:25) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:74) (IteratingFilterChain.java:42) (ServletFilterModuleContainerFilter.java:77) (ServletFilterModuleContainerFilter.java:63) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (ChainedFilterStepRunner.java:78) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (AbstractCachingFilter.java:33) (AbstractHttpFilter.java:31) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (AbstractEncodingFilter.java:41) (AbstractHttpFilter.java:31) (PathMatchingEncodingFilter.java:49) (AbstractHttpFilter.java:31) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (JiraStartupChecklistFilter.java:74) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (MultiTenantServletFilter.java:91) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (ChainedFilterStepRunner.java:78) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (StandardWrapperValve.java:225) (StandardContextValve.java:123) (AuthenticatorBase.java:472) (StandardHostValve.java:168) (ErrorReportValve.java:98) (StandardEngineValve.java:118) (AccessLogValve.java:927) (CoyoteAdapter.java:407) (AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1001) (AbstractProtocol.java:585) (JIoEndpoint.java:312)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Caused by: com.atlassian.jira.exception.CreateException: Error occurred while creating issue through workflow: You may not create a Sub-task for the parent issue type.
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.managers.DefaultIssueManager.createIssue(DefaultIssueManager.java:496)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.managers.DefaultIssueManager.createIssue(DefaultIssueManager.java:426)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.managers.DefaultIssueManager.createIssueObject(DefaultIssueManager.java:511)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueManager$createIssueObject.call(Unknown Source)
	at com.onresolve.jira.groovy.canned.workflow.postfunctions.AbstractCloneIssue.doScript(AbstractCloneIssue.groovy:80)  <+3> (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedMethod.invoke(CachedMethod.java:90)
	at groovy.lang.MetaMethod.doMethodInvoke(MetaMethod.java:233)
	at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:1054)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ScriptBytecodeAdapter.invokeMethodOnSuperN(ScriptBytecodeAdapter.java:128)
	at com.onresolve.jira.groovy.canned.workflow.postfunctions.CreateSubTask.doScript(CreateSubTask.groovy:118)
	at com.onresolve.jira.groovy.canned.CannedScript$doScript.call(Unknown Source)
	at com.onresolve.jira.groovy.CannedScriptRunner.runCannedScript(CannedScriptRunner.groovy:63)
	at com.onresolve.jira.groovy.GroovyRunner.run(GroovyRunner.java:52)  <+3> (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PojoMetaMethodSite$PojoCachedMethodSite.invoke(PojoMetaMethodSite.java:189)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PojoMetaMethodSite.call(PojoMetaMethodSite.java:53)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:120)
	at com.onresolve.jira.groovy.listener.ScriptRunnerUberListener$_workflowEvent_closure1.doCall(ScriptRunnerUberListener.groovy:48)  <+2> (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedMethod.invoke(CachedMethod.java:90)
	at groovy.lang.MetaMethod.doMethodInvoke(MetaMethod.java:233)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.metaclass.ClosureMetaClass.invokeMethod(ClosureMetaClass.java:272)
	at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:884)
	at groovy.lang.Closure.call(Closure.java:412)
	at groovy.lang.Closure.call(Closure.java:425)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.DefaultGroovyMethods.each(DefaultGroovyMethods.java:1377)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.DefaultGroovyMethods.each(DefaultGroovyMethods.java:1349)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.dgm$149.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PojoMetaMethodSite$PojoMetaMethodSiteNoUnwrapNoCoerce.invoke(PojoMetaMethodSite.java:271)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PojoMetaMethodSite.call(PojoMetaMethodSite.java:53)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:116)
	at com.onresolve.jira.groovy.listener.ScriptRunnerUberListener.workflowEvent(ScriptRunnerUberListener.groovy:35)  <+2> (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at com.atlassian.event.internal.SingleParameterMethodListenerInvoker.invoke(SingleParameterMethodListenerInvoker.java:36)
	... 189 more
Caused by: [InvalidInputException: [Error map: [{}]] [Error list: [[You may not create a Sub-task for the parent issue type.]]]
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
	at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedConstructor.invoke(CachedConstructor.java:77)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.ConstructorSite.callConstructor(ConstructorSite.java:42)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.callConstructor(AbstractCallSite.java:190)
	at com.onresolve.jira.groovy.canned.workflow.validators.SimpleScriptedValidator.doScript(SimpleScriptedValidator.groovy:66)
	at com.onresolve.jira.groovy.canned.CannedScript$doScript.call(Unknown Source)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:42)
	at com.onresolve.jira.groovy.canned.CannedScript$doScript.call(Unknown Source)
	at com.onresolve.jira.groovy.CannedScriptRunner.runCannedScript(CannedScriptRunner.groovy:63)
	at com.onresolve.jira.groovy.GroovyRunner.run(GroovyRunner.java:52)
	at com.onresolve.jira.groovy.GroovyValidator.validate(GroovyValidator.java:44)
	at com.opensymphony.workflow.AbstractWorkflow.verifyInputs(AbstractWorkflow.java:1512)
	at com.opensymphony.workflow.AbstractWorkflow.transitionWorkflow(AbstractWorkflow.java:1203)
	at com.opensymphony.workflow.AbstractWorkflow.initialize(AbstractWorkflow.java:615)
	at com.atlassian.jira.workflow.OSWorkflowManager.createIssue(OSWorkflowManager.java:807)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.managers.DefaultIssueManager.createIssue(DefaultIssueManager.java:488)
	... 234 more

[Jorge Rivero]

Thank you all for the help. Here's the the log.warn(...) added at the beginning of the validator. The validator remains the same as the OP.

log.warn(issue.getKey())
log.warn(issue.getParentObject().getKey())

Observation - Adding a log.warn to the beginning of the validator caused it to return false regardless of what came next. I had to do this quickly to capture the error, but then quickly removed it from the validator because as it stands, it works fine for adding a sub-task through the interface.

Results - Here are the two scenarios for adding a sub-task, and respective results:

1) When adding a sub-task through the interface manually

• log.warn(issue.getKey()) = was EMPTY
• log.warn(issue.getParentObject().getKey()) = was the PARENT KEY
• END RESULT = Sub-task was successfully added (according to Validator criteria)

2) When attemting to add a sub-task through the Scriptrunner listener

• log.warn(issue.getKey()) = was EMPTY
• log.warn(issue.getParentObject().getKey()) = was ERROR: javax.script.ScriptException: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke method getKey() on null object
• END RESULT = Sub-task was not added, and gave me the same error as the OP.

I think the problem is that issue is something different during #1 and something else during #2. Jamie, you would know best, but looking at the script source of the "Create a sub-task" listener, on line 120-126, I see this

Issue newIssue = params['newIssue'] as Issue

        def subTaskManager = componentManager.getSubTaskManager()

        // get a fresh copy of the issue, otherwise the old version gets indexed by the createSubTaskIssueLink method
        // issue = ComponentAccessor.getIssueManager().getIssueObject(issue.id)
        subTaskManager.createSubTaskIssueLink(issue, newIssue, user)

Would that have something to do with the error and how issue is instantiated and handled in the 2 scenarios above?

Thanks for any guidance you may be able to provide.

[JamieA]

What type of validator is it... the one called "simple scripted validator"?

println typically will not come up in atlassian-jira.log, but "log.warn(...)" will.

[Boris Georgiev _Appfire_]

I think it will come up in the logs, but I'm not 100% sure. Just put it as a first line in the validator script

println(issue.getKey())

println(issue.getParentObject().getKey())

[MichałS]

Hi Jorge, you should probably initialize and use the logger for this LOG.warn(...) it is a good way to debug this functionality.

[Jorge Rivero]

I believe so. I mean I have tested this through the interface for every possible scenario and the validator works correctly.

But you bring up a good point... perhaps when the validator is called through the Script Listener code, it does *not* return the right parent object. Is there a different more accurate way to get the parent object for both scenarios? Maybe when I'm in the listener, the issue is not really the sub-task yet or something, or it gets created differently? That is the only possible explanation.

At any rate, I could put that println to verify, but where should I put it and would it come out through the logs?

[Boris Georgiev _Appfire_]

Are you sure you're getting the "right" issue when you call issue.getParentObject()?

Can you add a println and check which issue is returned by issue.getParentObject() when the error appears ?

[Jorge Rivero]

Thank you for getting back to me so quickly.

I tried removing the validator, and the Scriptrunner listener *worked* (created the subtask successfully). However, I have to put that validator back in because I need it in place. Any thoughts?

I am running JIRA v5.2.7.

[Boris Georgiev _Appfire_]

Does the same error appears if you remove the validator ?

[Boris Georgiev _Appfire_]

Which version of JIRA are you running ?