How to trigger a timer every midnight to make rest call.

[Bani]

Hi 

I am developing a Jira plugin and trying to set substitutes for team leaders for a particular time interval.  I am providing team permission to substitute and need to check every midnight if the substitutes time interval is over or not . if yes then need to remove permission for the substitute,

I have already developed the code for setting and removing substitute but now i m searching how to add a timer to jira so that it will make a rest call every midnight to check whether current date reside in  substitutes time interval if not then delete the permission.

Thnanks!!

[Bani]

Hey ..

actually in my authentication helper i'm appending http req.

Is it possible to create a jsession id for  the user  using name and password or if we can create a cookie to make a tempo rest api call .... 

Thanks 

[Aleksandr Zuevich]

I don't know exactly how your AuthenticationHelper and TempoRestClient are implemented but maybe you need to do something like:

JiraAuthenticationContext authContext = ComponentAccessor.getJiraAuthenticationContext();
authContext.setLoggedInUser(ComponentAccessor.getUserManager().getUserByKey("username"));

[Bani]

Is there some another way in which i can create a timer then  and append my http req too ?because i ll need admin rights to make a rest call to get tempo teams 

[Aleksandr Zuevich]

Hi, 

Look at this tutorial to schedule a task: https://developer.atlassian.com/server/framework/atlassian-sdk/scheduling-events-via-sal-tutorial.

[Bani]

HI Aleksander ,

Thanks for the link .

As I described earlier,I am trying to develop a  substitute functionality in JIRA in which team leaders can assign their substitutes and give them permission to approve the timesheet of his team members,

It will be valid for a specified interval for that interval i am giving tempo team permission to the substitute. After the time interval is over i want to remove the team permission for the substitute,

I already have the code to remove and set permission for substitute i need to create a timer which will run every mid night to check weather team's substitute reside in the time interval for team permission or not if not then remove it .

I tried to follow this link.

I  used following steps to create a timer.

1. I added the maven dependency.

2. Imported the SAL scheduler as defined in link.

3. Wrote a Task in which I implemented PluginJob and also pass the task  class name.I also injected the services here which I was using to delete the team permission here for substitute after checking the time interval.

// i m getting error  in this step at the point where i tried to call my authentication helper to set the httprequest which i will need to get all the tempo teams and to get the substitute for them . I am getting following error.

2:15:49,422 Caesium-1-1 ERROR ServiceRunner [c.a.scheduler.core.JobLauncher] Scheduled job with ID 'JiraPluginScheduler:com.foxconn.dta.schedular.RemoveOldSubstituteTeamPermissionsimpl:job' failed
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] java.lang.NullPointerException
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at com.foxconn.dta.schedular.RemoveOldSubstitute.execute(RemoveOldSubstitute.java:31)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at com.atlassian.sal.jira.scheduling.JiraPluginScheduler$JobDescriptor.runJob(JiraPluginScheduler.java:110)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at com.atlassian.sal.jira.scheduling.JiraPluginScheduler.runJob(JiraPluginScheduler.java:80)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at com.atlassian.scheduler.core.JobLauncher.runJob(JobLauncher.java:153)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at com.atlassian.scheduler.core.JobLauncher.launchAndBuildResponse(JobLauncher.java:118)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at com.atlassian.scheduler.core.JobLauncher.launch(JobLauncher.java:97)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at com.atlassian.scheduler.caesium.impl.CaesiumSchedulerService.launchJob(CaesiumSchedulerService.java:443)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at com.atlassian.scheduler.caesium.impl.CaesiumSchedulerService.executeLocalJob(CaesiumSchedulerService.java:410)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at com.atlassian.scheduler.caesium.impl.CaesiumSchedulerService.executeQueuedJob(CaesiumSchedulerService.java:388)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at com.atlassian.scheduler.caesium.impl.CaesiumSchedulerService$1.consume(CaesiumSchedulerService.java:285)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at com.atlassian.scheduler.caesium.impl.CaesiumSchedulerService$1.consume(CaesiumSchedulerService.java:282)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at com.atlassian.scheduler.caesium.impl.SchedulerQueueWorker.executeJob(SchedulerQueueWorker.java:65)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at com.atlassian.scheduler.caesium.impl.SchedulerQueueWorker.executeNextJob(SchedulerQueueWorker.java:59)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at com.atlassian.scheduler.caesium.impl.SchedulerQueueWorker.run(SchedulerQueueWorker.java:34)
[INFO] [talledLocalContainer] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

Thanks !!

[Aleksandr Zuevich]

Could you show your RemoveOldSubstitute.java?

[Bani]

public class RemoveOldSubstitute implements PluginJob {
@Inject
private SubstituteSettingsService substituteSettingService;
@Inject
private TempoRestClient tempoRestClient;
@Context
HttpServletRequest httpRequest;
@Inject
AuthenticationHelper authenticationHelper;
@Override
public void execute(Map<String, Object> jobDataMap) {
final RemoveOldSubstituteTeamPermissionsimpl monitor = (RemoveOldSubstituteTeamPermissionsimpl) jobDataMap
.get(RemoveOldSubstituteTeamPermissionsimpl.KEY);
assert monitor != null;

//here i m getting the error .. httprequest is null here how i can add request here .
authenticationHelper.setHttpRequest(httpRequest);

//getting all the teams info here 
List<TempoTeam> teams = tempoRestClient.getTeamListForUser();

if (teams != null && !teams.isEmpty()) {
for (TempoTeam team : teams) {
substituteSettingService.deleteTeamLeadSubstitute(team.getId(), team.getLead());

}
}

}

}

[Aleksandr Zuevich]

There is no httpRequest here because you run your method in scheduled mode, without user interaction. You have to think how to authenticate another way.