Can't manage Listeners

[Marcel Batista]

Hi,

I am not able to manage listeners in my system. When I go system -> Advanced there's no Listeners tab available for me to add a custom one.

Here's the screenshot: http://s18.postimage.org/xhyl766a1/jira_help.jpg

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

You can't add listeners in JIRA OnDemand. See https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Restricted+Functions+in+Atlassian+OnDemand#RestrictedFunctionsinAtlassianOnDemand-JIRA

[Marcel Batista]

Ok I understand. I was told I need to raise a ticket if I want to ask for Jira Adms to create a listener for my project. The thing is I can't do it!! When I'm trying to validate my account I am told "Couldn't validate the URL: 'https://[.......].atlassian.net' you have entered.". I wonder if that's because I'm on a evaluation account. Anyways, I need to make everything work the way I was asked to before being able to convince my company of buying the license. What to do?

[JohnA]

Hi Marcel,

I suspect the reason you haven't been able to log a support ticket is that our system was having problems, but it's back up and running again now. Although it seems there's some confusion because I'm sorry to say that listeners can't be configured for OnDemand instances, as stated by Jobin, but you are correct that you can request Atlassian Support to assist you with configurations that are permitted in the OnDemand environment, but that require System-Administrator privileges to perform.

However, in your case, if listeners are a specific requirement for your organisation then you should investigate a 'Behind The Firewall', (downloaded), version of JIRA because they are a restricted function in the OnDemand environment.

All the best,
John

[Marcel Batista]

Actually I'm all down now. I get a maintenence message when I try to access my url...

[Fabrizio Galletti]

ok so my webhook reference will be something like http://mydomian.com/script.php

My need is slight different, i need to modify data in linked issue of the one closed, dunno how but it's what we need :)

[EddieW]

Just thought I would share my approach.

Using a simple web service (use the term lightly in this case) hosted on another server you can set web-hooks to mimic the actions of listeners.

For example one of my needs was auto-transitions based on comments if issues are in a particular state. If that is your need just update the commentTransitions array, or see the bottom if statement to see how you could handle other cases.

<?php

class aodListener{
		//change me
	public	$TARGET="https://subdomain.atlassian.net";
	public	$USER="username";
	public	$PASS="password";
	public	$LOG="notice.log";

		//array or statusId => actionId for transitions to make on comments, use true or false to limit to assignee or anyone else.
	public	$commentTransitions = array(
			10001=>array(false,"711") //waiting on customer --> investigating if NOT assignee
			//,"10000"=>array(true,"721") //investigating --> waiting is IS assignee
			);

		
		// dont cjhange anything else

		
		function info($message){
			error_log(date("Y-m-d H:i:s") . " " . $message . "\n", 3, $this->LOG);
		}

		function post($url, $body){
			$authHeader="Basic " . base64_encode($this->USER.":".$this->PASS);

			
			$curl_handle = curl_init();
			
			curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
			curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
			curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
				  'Authorization: ' . $authHeader,
				  'User-Agent: ' . "EddiesActionHelper",
				  "Content-type: application/json"
				));
				
			curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,  $body);
			curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
			
			$json_response = curl_exec($curl_handle);
			$request_info = curl_getinfo($curl_handle,CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

			$this->info("Request code: " . $request_info);
			if($request_info == "204"){
				$this->info("Success!");
			}

			
			curl_close($curl_handle);
			$curl_handle = null;
		}
		
		function transition($issueId,$actionId){
			$this->info("creating post");
		    $url=$this->TARGET . "/rest/api/latest/issue/" . $issueId . "/transitions";
			//$url="http://requestb.in/plli6fpl";
			$body='{"transition":{"id":"' . $actionId . '"} }';
			
			$this->info("sending post to: " . $url . " with " . $body . " ");
			$this->post($url,$body);
			
		}
}
	
$helper = new aodListener();	

	$helper->info("request recieved");
	//get request from atlassian web hook.
	$body = @file_get_contents('php://input');

	
	//inspect to determin action
	$message = json_decode($body);
	//$helper->info($body);
	//$helper->info(print_r($message));
	
	if(!isset($message->webhookEvent)){
		$helper->info("Not a valid Atlassian Webhook");
		die();
	}
	
	
	if(isset($message->comment)){
		$helper->info("comment submitted");
		//use map to auto transition		
		$currentStatus=$message->issue->fields->status->id;
		$helper->info("issue status:" . $currentStatus);
		if( isset($helper->commentTransitions[$currentStatus]) ){
			$isAssignee = $message->comment->author->name == $message->issue->fields->assignee->name;
			$helper->info("Is Assignee: " . $isAssignee);
			if($helper->commentTransitions[$currentStatus][0] == $isAssignee){
				$actionId = $helper->commentTransitions[$currentStatus][1];
				$helper->info("Requesting transition with action id " . $actionId);		
				$helper->transition($message->issue->id,$actionId);
			}else{
				$helper->info("Comment being ignored");
			}
		}else{
			$helper->info("Current status not one to transition, ignoring");
		}
	}else if(isset($message->changelog)){
		//handle status change
	}else{
		//unammped action
	}
		
	
?>

[Fabrizio Galletti]

i've to make some action when my issue is closed to linked issue (linked by a particular link type) and i don't know if i can

[Fabrizio Galletti]

Hy eddie, just some question:

- This page that u have created runs on apache or similar?

- Is a php page? Probably i'm new on webhook, but where can i configure where to send the "webhook call" ? in the url section i can specify a single host, have u created this page as "index.php?" or i'm probably missing something

[EddieW]

The script is PHP, so you'll need a webhost that runs PHP (apache will work with mod_php), any standard webhost offers this. You will need to specify the webhook URL depending on the name of the file that you save (couldbeanything.php)

I don't see why you couldn't act on a closed issue ( you may want to modify the script to ignore the current status, and ony inspect the action. )

[Fabrizio Galletti]

ok so my webhook reference will be something like http://mydomian.com/script.php

My need is slight different, i need to modify data in linked issue of the one closed, dunno how but it's what we need :)

[JohnA]

Hi Marcel,

I'm sorry to say that it is expected that you cannot access the listeners in your instance because you do not have the JIRA System-Administrators permission for your OnDemand instance, but this is to be expected because this is one of the restricted functions in OnDemand: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Restricted+Functions+in+Atlassian+OnDemand

Therefore, you will need to open a support ticket for any task that requires System-Administrator permissions and request that an Atlassian Engineer performs the required tasks on your behalf.

All the best,
John