Create a pull request as a particular user

[Carl Myers]

For integration purposes, I need to create a pull request as a specific user, from a service account.  There Doesn't seem to be any efforts underway to implement this, the only reference I can find to it is in a comment on this issue (which seems to misunderstand what the original submitter is asking for): https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/STASH-4185

After carefully looking at all the non-internal (and internal too) APIs available to plugins, I can't see how to change a PR's owner after the fact.  I had the idea to try making an "api proxy" that would let you "sudo" to some other user then execute a rest call, but I'm not sure how to do that either.

Given that you can run code as some other user using SecurityService.impersonating(...).call(...), is there a way for a plugin to impersonate another user, get a session cookie or oauth token of some sort, then make rest calls on their behalf?  Or is there a way better way to do this?  Right now our tool makes rest calls so if we could just point it at the "sudo proxy" without changing anything else that'd be a big win.

Thanks!
-Carl 

[Carl Myers]

Also relevant: https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/11982844/how-can-i-change-the-creatorauthor-of-a-pull-request Is this still the best answer?

[Herman Griffin]

Hello Carl,

Did you find/create a solution for this issue?

Cheers,

Herman