In Java, editing a custom field fails to update indexes?

[ryan McCullough]

Basically, I need a query to produce a list of issues where custom field 'X' is empty. But just before I query for these issues, I have some java code that edits custom field 'X'.

My problem is only after re-indexing does the query produce the desired resutls. I suspect that my java code is failing to update an index that later influences the query?

public static void editCustomField(Issue sourceIssue, String customField, String value){
		CustomField cf = getCustomField(customField);
		IssueChangeHolder changeHolder = new DefaultIssueChangeHolder();
		Object oldValue = issue.getCustomFieldValue(cf);
		ModifiedValue mod = new ModifiedValue(oldValue, value);
		cf.updateValue(null, issue, mod, changeHolder);
	}

Please help :(

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist] · Accepted solution]

Use IssueIndexManager to reindex it in code:

http://docs.atlassian.com/jira/latest/com/atlassian/jira/issue/index/IssueIndexManager.html#reIndex(com.atlassian.jira.issue.Issue)

[ryan McCullough]

that was perfect, thank you sir!

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

glad it helped!