Scriptrunner - Edit Description based on Component

[Jon Langshaw]

Can someone review and let me know why this wont work?

import com.atlassian.jira.bc.project.component.ProjectComponent

def desc = getFieldById("description")

def component = getFieldById(getFieldChanged()) 

def defaultValue = """

*WHAT:* chicken, chicken chicken

*WHY*

""".replaceAll(/    /, '')

for(c in comps){

     if(c.getName().contains(“Stuff”)){defaultValue = true}

}

if (! underlyingIssue?.description) {

desc.setFormValue(defaultValue)

}

[PD Sheehan]

1. Where is "comps" on the line "for (c in comps)" coming from?
   That variable is not defined anywhere.
2. Suff appears to be surrounded by invalid quotes. Maybe this happened when you copied here. Or maybe this happened because you edited the script in a word processor rather than a code editor. Make sure you use either ' or " and not ” (notice the slant on the last one?
3. You set the variable "defaultValue" to the boolean "true" if c (whatever c is ) has a name that contains stuff. Then you try to set the description to a boolean. The best-case scenario, this will be converted to a string "true" or it might fail altogether.

Perhaps the following will achieve something close to what you expect:

import com.atlassian.jira.bc.project.component.ProjectComponent

def defaultValue = """
    *WHAT:* chicken, chicken chicken
    
    *WHY*

""".stripIndent()

if (! underlyingIssue?.description) {
    def components = getFieldById(fieldChanged) as List<ProjectComponent>
    if(components.any{it.name.contains('Stuff')}){
        def desc = getFieldById("description")
        desc.setFormValue(defaultValue)
    }
}

[Inayat Nahvi]

Hi @PD Sheehan .   I tried this code.  It compiles with no issues, but it does not seem to populate the Description.   In the behavior, I have it set to the Component/s field, not the initializer.

If the component of 'Stuff' is selected on the create screen, it should add the defaultValue to the description box, right?

[PD Sheehan]

Correct, that's what this code is designed to do.

If that's not working for you ( and you are on a server/dc instance) you will need to add some logging and review your jira logs to see what might be happening.

For example:

import com.atlassian.jira.bc.project.component.ProjectComponent
import com.apache.log4j.Level
log.setLevel(Level.INFO) // make sure log level is adequate to view the messages

log.info "Start of behaviour for Component/s field"
def defaultValue = """
    *WHAT:* chicken, chicken chicken
    
    *WHY*

""".stripIndent()

if (! underlyingIssue?.description) {
    def components = getFieldById(fieldChanged).value as List<ProjectComponent> //I see the original code was missing .value
    log.info "component/s field contains ${components.size()} values, checking if any of them contain stuff"
    if(components.any{log.info("component name=$it.name");it.name.contains('Stuff')}){
        log.info "stuff component found, setting the description field"
        def desc = getFieldById("description")
        desc.setFormValue(defaultValue)
    }
} else {
   log.info "an existing issue was detected ($underlyingIssue.key), we won't update the description"
}
log.info "end of behaviour for Component/s field

[Inayat Nahvi]

Thanks @PD Sheehan .  This is working now.  I did have to make one correction and change:

import com.apache.log4j.Level

to

import org.apache.log4j.Level