Exiting jelly script by dayofweek [Jira]

[Tamir Lavi]

Hi.

I am trying to exit Jelly script if it runs on the weekend.

I found some examples on retrieving the day of week.
I know it sound pretty simple... , but I wasn't able to get it to work.

How do you write a condition on Jelly Script?
How do you exit jelly script?

I would appreciate if anyone can give me a working example (I'm sure it be useful for many others...)

Thanks!

Tamir.

[Neil Arrowsmith · Accepted solution]

Hi

I had to do something like this, and have picked up some tips from other posts here. Mine is a little bit more complicated as I needed to act on tomorrow's date rather than today's. But hopefully the below helps. The important parts for your questions are the <core:if... > tags.

In summary this is set to run every day, creating an issue with tomorrow's date in the summary, unless tomorrow is a weekend day.

<JiraJelly xmlns:jira="jelly:com.atlassian.jira.jelly.JiraTagLib" xmlns:core="jelly:core">
<core:invokeStatic className="java.util.Calendar" method="getInstance" var="TomorrowCalendar"/>
<core:invoke on="${TomorrowCalendar}" method="add">
    <core:arg type="int" value="5"/>
    <core:arg type="int" value="1"/>
</core:invoke>
<core:invoke on="${TomorrowCalendar}" method="get" var="dayOfweek">
    <core:arg type="int" value="7"/>
</core:invoke>
<core:if test="${dayOfweek != 1}">
    <core:if test="${dayOfweek != 7}">
        <core:new className="java.text.SimpleDateFormat" var="format">
            <core:arg type="java.lang.String" value="yyyy-MM-dd" />
        </core:new>
        <core:new className="java.text.SimpleDateFormat" var="dayformat">
            <core:arg type="java.lang.String" value="EEEE" />
        </core:new>

        <core:invoke on="${TomorrowCalendar}" var="TomorrowDate" method="getTime"/>
        <core:invokeStatic className="java.util.TimeZone" method="getTimeZone" var="timezone">
	    <core:arg type="java.lang.String" value="GMT" />
	</core:invokeStatic>
	<core:invoke on="${format}" var="formattedDate" method="setTimeZone">
	    <core:arg type="java.util.TimeZone" value="${timezone}" />
	</core:invoke>
        <core:invoke on="${format}" var="formattedDate" method="format">
            <core:arg type="java.util.Date" value="${TomorrowDate}" />
        </core:invoke>
        <core:invoke on="${dayformat}" var="formattedDOW" method="format">
            <core:arg type="java.util.Date" value="${TomorrowDate}" />
        </core:invoke>        
        
        <jira:CreateIssue project-key="REL" summary="Daily Release ${formattedDOW} ${formattedDate}" assignee="-1" duplicateSummary="ignore" />
    </core:if>
</core:if> 
</JiraJelly>

[Tamir Lavi]

Hi Neil Arrowsmith

It's been some time since I posted that question...
I realy appreciate your effort to share the solution with us.

Although I did not yet test it, I going to mark your answer as accepted, as it seems to solve the problem I had.

Thanks!

[Neil Arrowsmith]

Hi Ravi

This bit of the script above checks if the day is a Sunday (dayOfweek == 1) or Saturday (dayOfweek == 7)...

<core:if test="${dayOfweek != 1}">
    <core:if test="${dayOfweek != 7}">

[Ravi Sagar _Sparxsys_]

Just amazing code, I am wondering how the code finds out whether the date is weekend or not?

[Tamir Lavi]

Hi, David.

I guess that if I'll spend enough time on that issue, I will figure it out.
Problem is that I don't have a full day to spend on it, and I am not a jelly script expert.

So, if some have a working example - I would appriciate it.

The flow I need is:

1. If now().dayofweek is in [day of weekend] -> EXIT.

2 Else continue with the Jelly script.

[David Pinn]

You will already be familiar with the Jelly tags for JIRA. For general flow control and logic, you may want to read about the tags in the jelly:core library.

Perhaps you have already read my answer to the question about retrieving the value of a custom date field, in which case, you have an example of using Jelly to make arbitrary calls to Java methods using the core:invoke and core:invokeStatic tags. There's anther example of using those tags in my answer to Jira Jelly how do I add label to an issue?