Get content of a current comment on transition

[Roman Blyshchyk]

Hello smart people, 

I am trying to do validation on a comment during a transition between statuses. I want my comment to contain a certain tag, say :

[tagName] <some comment text>

If the body of the comment doesn't contain that text - I want to throw a validation message. It seems to me that this has to be done in validation part of the workflow, but I can't figure out how to grab the body of the current comment.  After searching CommentManager, I only found ".getLastComment(issue)", but not currentComment. 

Here is what I have right now:

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import org.apache.log4j.Logger

def commentManager = ComponentAccessor.getCommentManager()
def lastComment = commentManager.getLastComment(issue)
def log = Logger.getLogger("com.acme.workflows")

log.warn(lastComment.body)

if(lastComment.body.contains("[public]")){
    return true;
}
else{
    return false;
}

Thanks,

Roman

[Payne · Accepted solution]

You can use transientVars, e.g.

String comment = transientVars?.get("comment")?.toString()

You'll get a Static type checking error in the editor, but it works fine.

[Roman Blyshchyk]

fantastic! thank you, it worked. 

[Roman Blyshchyk]

Couldn't find any documentation on transientVars, only a small mention in here:

https://scriptrunner.adaptavist.com/latest/jira/recipes/workflow/get-workflow-vars.html

Do you know of any documentation on this and other "hidden" things?

[Payne]

No, I know of no good source for goodies like that. I just happened to stumble upon transientVars by way of searching for a solution to a problem and also found little in the way of information about it.

[Roman Blyshchyk]

Well, hope things thread brings more searchable info to other users who needs to do the same or similar stuff. 

Thanks for help again :)