Transition issue as user different than logged in user

[Henning Tietgens]

Hi,

I created a listener (in groovy, through script runner plugin) which has to transition an issue on assigning the issue to a different user. The transition ("Stop Progress") has two conditions "currentUser = assignee OR currentUser is in group jira_bots".

This is the code of the transition method.

static void transitionIssue(issue, actionId, IssueInputParameters issueInputParameters, log=null, user=null) {
	log?.debug "Starting transitionIssue"
	ComponentManager cm = ComponentManager.instance

	if (!issueInputParameters) {
		log?.debug "Empty InputParameters, creating new one."
		issueInputParameters = new IssueInputParametersImpl([:])
	}
	// http://docs.atlassian.com/jira/latest/com/atlassian/jira/issue/IssueInputParameters.html

	if (!user) {
		log?.debug "User is null, get one."
		user = getUser(log)
	}
	log?.debug "User is ${user}"
	log?.debug "Issue.ID is ${issue.id}"
	log?.debug "ActionID is ${actionId as Long}"
	// log?.debug "issueInputParameters is ${issueInputParameters.dump()}"
	// log?.debug "Issue Dump is ${issue.dump()}"
	
	def validationResult = cm.issueService.validateTransition(user, issue.id, actionId as int, issueInputParameters)
	// log?.debug "Validationresult: ${validationResult.dump()}"
	
	if (validationResult.isValid()) {
		log?.debug "validationResult is valid"
		def transResult = cm.issueService.transition(user, validationResult)
		log?.debug "Transitionresult: ${transResult.dump()}"
		if (!transResult.isValid()) {
			log?.error ("Transition failed.")
			transResult.errorCollection.errorMessages.each{log?.error "Error Message: $it"}
			transResult.errorCollection.errors.each{log?.error "Error: $it"}
			transResult.errorCollection.reasons.each{log?.error "Reason: $it"}
		} else {
			log?.info ("Transitioned issue $issue through action \"$actionId\"")
		}
	} else {
		log?.debug "validationResult is NOT valid"
		validationResult.errorCollection.errorMessages.each{log?.error "Error Message: $it"}
		validationResult.errorCollection.errors.each{log?.error "Error: $it"}
		validationResult.errorCollection.reasons.each{log?.error "Reason: $it"}
		log?.error ("Not attempting transition")
	}
	
}

This is the resulting log output:

2012-02-20 14:57:34,577 http-8443-15 DEBUG htietgens [...] /secure/AssignIssue.jspa [eventim.AssigneeListener] Starting transitionIssue
2012-02-20 14:57:34,578 http-8443-15 DEBUG htietgens [...] /secure/AssignIssue.jspa [eventim.AssigneeListener] Empty InputParameters, creating new one.
2012-02-20 14:57:34,578 http-8443-15 DEBUG htietgens [...] /secure/AssignIssue.jspa [eventim.AssigneeListener] User is jira_bot
2012-02-20 14:57:34,578 http-8443-15 DEBUG htietgens [...] /secure/AssignIssue.jspa [eventim.AssigneeListener] Issue.ID is 55491
2012-02-20 14:57:34,578 http-8443-15 DEBUG htietgens [...] /secure/AssignIssue.jspa [eventim.AssigneeListener] ActionID is 201
2012-02-20 14:57:34,597 http-8443-15 DEBUG htietgens [...] /secure/AssignIssue.jspa [eventim.AssigneeListener] validationResult is NOT valid
2012-02-20 14:57:34,599 http-8443-15 ERROR htietgens [...] /secure/AssignIssue.jspa [eventim.AssigneeListener] Error Message: It seems that you have tried to perform a workflow operation (Stop Progress) that is not valid for the current state of this issue (INS-5632). The likely cause is that somebody has changed the issue recently, please look at the issue history for details.
2012-02-20 14:57:34,602 http-8443-15 ERROR htietgens [...] /secure/AssignIssue.jspa [eventim.AssigneeListener] Not attempting transition

At the moment my listener tries to perform the transition the assignee is already the new assignee, so the first condition doesn't match. I tried to do the validateTransition() from IssueService with a user in group jira_bots (to match the second condition) but it doesn't work (Error Message: It seems that you have tried to perform a workflow operation (Stop Progress) that is not valid for the current state of this issue (INS-5632). The likely cause is that somebody has changed the issue recently, please look at the issue history for details.). If I add the current user to the group jira_bots the transition takes place.

Should it work or do I have to do something different to perform a transition as a different user?

Thanks Henning

[Henning Tietgens · Accepted solution]

I got it... if I put a

cm.jiraAuthenticationContext.loggedInUser = user

just before the validateTransition() the transition is validated.

[Henning Tietgens]

It completely my own code and it's distributed within different classes. It's a little bit difficult to post it. I will add the transition method to the question. Thanks Jamie.

[JamieA]

Henning, you might need to post your code. Also is it all your own code or are you using the fast-track transition built-in script?