Getting current value of a Group Picker field and setting required field

[Srinath Anand]

Hi All,

Here is my requirement -

I have a Group Picker field that has a value. I want to set the Comment field to required when someone changes the value.

My initial thought is to get the current value of the field and then compare it to the new value and then set Comment to required if true. So for example, if the field had the value "Foo" and someone edited it to "Bar" then set Comment to required. If the value didn't change then do not set Comment as required.

Here is the code I have currently -

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.MutableIssue
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.*

CustomFieldManager customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()
CustomField customField = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjectByName("Group Field")

IssueManager issueManager = ComponentAccessor.getIssueManager();
MutableIssue issue = (MutableIssue) underlyingIssue;
Issue originalIssue = issueManager.getIssueObject(issue.id)

def oldValue = originalIssue.getCustomFieldValue(customField)

def customFieldOnForm = getFieldByName("Group Field")
def newValue = customFieldOnForm.getValue()

log.error "[DEBUG] oldValue is :: " +oldValue
log.error "[DEBUG] newValue is :: " +newValue

Output:

/rest/scriptrunner/behaviours/latest/runvalidator.json [c.o.j.groovy.user.FieldBehaviours][DEBUG] oldValue is :: [com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.impl.ImmutableGroup@9acac80d]
2018-03-22 14:25:55,096 http-nio-7999-exec-19 ERROR <> 865x332419x3 duah9u 139.49.147.10,10.73.139.2 /rest/scriptrunner/behaviours/latest/runvalidator.json [c.o.j.groovy.user.FieldBehaviours] [DEBUG] newValue is :: FOO

I would have expected oldValue to be FOO and newValue to be what I set it to from the Edit screen.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

[Srinath Anand]

This code worked for me -

import com.atlassian.jira.issue.MutableIssue

import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField

import com.atlassian.jira.issue.*

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor

CustomFieldManager customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()

CustomField customField = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjectByName("<Single Group Picker Field>")

IssueManager issueManager = ComponentAccessor.getIssueManager();

MutableIssue issue = (MutableIssue) underlyingIssue;

Issue originalIssue = issueManager.getIssueObject(issue.id)

def customFieldOnForm = getFieldByName("<Single Group Picker Field>")

def oldValue = underlyingIssue.getCustomFieldValue(customField)*.name as Set

def newValue = customFieldOnForm.getValue().split(",")*.trim() as Set

def commentField = getFieldById("comment")

if (oldValue != newValue)

{

    log.error "[INFO] oldValue " +oldValue +" is not equal to the newValue " +newValue +".Setting comment field to required."

    commentField.setRequired(true)

}

[Prashant Mali]

I am getting static type checking error on below line

def oldValue = underlyingIssue.getCustomFieldValue(customField)*.name as Set

Thanks,

Prashant

[Srinath Anand]

Ignore the static type checking error in the editor and try it out. It worked for me.

[Prashant Mali]

Thanks Srinath

It is working for me too.

[Alexey Matveev]

Make sure that you attached this script to the "Group Field" custom field behaviour. Not to the initializing script.

[Srinath Anand]

Yes, it is attached to the "Group Field".

[Alexey Matveev]

It is strange. getValue takes the value from the screen. And if you choose another value, it will take it.

[Srinath Anand]

So if I have a value of "Foo" on the screen getValue should return "Foo" right? If I change it to "Bar" then how do I get that value and compare it to "Foo" and make the Comment field required?

[Alexey Matveev]

That is right. Your code would look like this

def commentField = getFieldById("comment")

if (oldValue != newValue) {

 commentField.setRequired(true)

} else {

 commentField.setRequired(false)

}

[Srinath Anand]

Yes that is what I am trying to achieve but the oldValue and newValue are not returning the values I expect. Any suggestions?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

What values were you expecting?  (I'd expect two group objects from them)

[Srinath Anand]

I am expecting oldValue to hold the current value in the field and I want to compare it to some newValue that the user sets it to and then make the Comment field required.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

And what do they contain?

[Srinath Anand]

Assuming FOO is what is on the field this is what I get -

/rest/scriptrunner/behaviours/latest/runvalidator.json [c.o.j.groovy.user.FieldBehaviours][DEBUG] oldValue is :: [com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.impl.ImmutableGroup@9acac80d]
2018-03-22 14:25:55,096 http-nio-7999-exec-19 ERROR <> 865x332419x3 duah9u 139.49.147.10,10.73.139.2 /rest/scriptrunner/behaviours/latest/runvalidator.json [c.o.j.groovy.user.FieldBehaviours] [DEBUG] newValue is :: FOO

My code-

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.MutableIssue
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomField
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.*

CustomFieldManager customFieldManager = ComponentAccessor.getCustomFieldManager()
CustomField customField = customFieldManager.getCustomFieldObjectByName("Group Field")

IssueManager issueManager = ComponentAccessor.getIssueManager();
MutableIssue issue = (MutableIssue) underlyingIssue;
Issue originalIssue = issueManager.getIssueObject(issue.id)

def oldValue = originalIssue.getCustomFieldValue(customField)

def customFieldOnForm = getFieldByName("Group Field")
def newValue = customFieldOnForm.getValue()

log.error "[DEBUG] oldValue is :: " +oldValue
log.error "[DEBUG] newValue is :: " +newValue

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

That's what I expected - the current value is an group object.  Try adding .getName() to the code that gets it from the issue.

[Prashant Mali]

Hi Nic,

I have a same issue. I got that current value is an group object. but where to add .getName() 

Can you please explain me in detail.

[Gezim Shehu [Communardo]]

Is this being run as a listener?

[Srinath Anand]

Behaviour Script