How to set issue status?

[Alexander Urzhumtsev]

I create issue so

IssueInputBuilder issueBuilder = new IssueInputBuilder(
				nameOutputProject, currentIssue.getIssueType().getId(),
				currentIssue.getSummary());
		issueBuilder.setDescription(currentIssue.getDescription());
		issueBuilder.setAssignee(currentIssue.getAssignee());
		issueBuilder.setPriority(currentIssue.getPriority());
		issueBuilder.setProjectKey(nameOutputProject);
IssueInput issueInput = issueBuilder.build();

but IssueInputBuilder don't have method setStatus(). How to set issue status?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

You don't set the status of an issue in most cases.

If you're adding a new issue, you can (importing issues does this), but for existing issues, you should move the issue through the workflow, not set the status. Status is an indicator of where an issue is in the workflow, not a real "field".

[Alexander Urzhumtsev]

I understood idea, but how to move the issue through the workflow programmatically?

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

use issueService.trannsition after issueService.validateTransition. You will find examples for these methods in Answers itself.

[Alexander Urzhumtsev]

I find code

JiraWorkflow workFlow = ComponentAccessor
							.getWorkflowManager().getWorkflow(currentIssue);
					Status status = currentIssue.getStatusObject();
					com.opensymphony.workflow.loader.StepDescriptor currentStep = workFlow
							.getLinkedStep(status);
					List<ActionDescriptor> actions = currentStep.getActions();
					int actionId = 0;
					for (ActionDescriptor actionDescriptor : actions) {
						if (actionDescriptor.getName().equals("Start Progress")) {
							actionId = actionDescriptor.getId();
						}
					}
					IssueService issueService = ComponentAccessor
							.getIssueService();
					TransitionValidationResult transitionValidationResult = issueService
							.validateTransition(getLoggedInUser(),
									currentIssueId, actionId, issueService.newIssueInputParameters());
					if (transitionValidationResult.isValid()) {
						IssueResult transitionResult = issueService.transition(
								getLoggedInUser(), transitionValidationResult);
						if (!transitionResult.isValid()) {
							// Do something
						}
					}

[Michal Husar]

Hello Alexander,

how said Nic, you cant set the Status, but you have to "do transition" in your workflow. In JSON si something like this:

{
  "transition": {
      "id": "5"
  }
}

So you have to put transition ID, to set Status field(for example REST API, but it's only example, because you are not using it: http://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/latest/#id109333).

[Alexander Urzhumtsev]

Do you know how to do transition when use jira rest java client library?

[Michal Husar]

You can look at this: https://ecosystem.atlassian.net/browse/JRJC-76 . I think Transition or TransitionInput can do this magic(I'm using REST API not REST Client, so I don't know exactly how to do this).