Cancelling action in scriprunner escallation service

[PD Sheehan]

I have some conditions too complex to try to apply via JQL.

Is there some attribute I could set using the "Additional issue actions" code to cancel/prevent the action from occurring as expected?

Right now, I'm setting the action as "None" and I've completely coded my own action handling, but I'd prefer a simpler solution.

[PD Sheehan · Accepted solution]

No sooner asked then answered .... 

I had actually been thinking for a  few days about that, then realized that I could probably just throw an exception.

And yup, sure enough, that works

throw new Exception("Skipping this action")

[Ben Poulson]

Could just include something like 

return "Cancelling action"

Edit: Just saw that you answered it yourself- leaving my answer for anyone who will stumble across this thread in the future 

[PD Sheehan]

I don't think this works:

[Ben Poulson]

Good call- I forgot that it only cancels out of the rest of the script, not the action (I pretty much only use escalation services for scripts). Your way is definitely better