Custom Field Type $value customization

[Sebastiano Costa]

Hi everybody,

I've developed a custom field type which extends a simple GenericTextCFType, the point is that this custom field open a popup(very similar to UserPicker) and let you choose a Client with name/surname/etc...

Now the point is that this process store the Client id (and that's right) but when i open the issue to visualize the value, I'll see the id and not the name.

in .vm files the id is stored as $value (i think this is because it is standard)

Now, the point is:

"How can I intercept this $value in order to pass it to the class and elaborate it to return the name?"

Hope to find a solution

[Sebastiano Costa · Accepted solution]

Ok, found a solution. I had to Ovveride following method

@Override

	public String getValueFromIssue(CustomField field, Issue issue) {
		//Here is where i get the value (the id)
		String internalValue= super.getValueFromIssue(field, issue); 

		/*
		* Here it goes the code to elaborate the value
		*/

		return elaboratedValue;
	}