Hi,

I'm trying to use updateIssue(String token, String issueKey, RemoteFieldValue[] actionParams) from the JiraSoapService but I cannot find any information about the RemoteFieldValue object. Does anyone have any information about this? The documentation is very weak in some parts and it is extremely difficult to figure things out. Any help is greatly appreciated.

figured it out...you have to use progressWorkflowAction to change resolution and status.

From what I've found, the first value in String[] will be the new value. I think this is the case for most of the fields.

Try putting different things in the array and see what values change. Sorry couldn't be more helpful...

I created RemoteFieldValues for the items I wanted to update. The first field is the property you want to change, and the second is a String array containing the value you want to change it to. The value is usually a String id associated with that type. For example, the resolution "Fixed" has the id 1 so I would pass a String array with value 1. You can call getResolutions(token) to get a list of the available resolutions and to get the id call getId() on one of the resolutions.

String resolution[] = {"1"};
...
RemoteFieldValue resolutionField = new RemoteFieldValue("resolution", resolution);
RemoteFieldValue priorityField = new RemoteFieldValue("priority", priority);
RemoteFieldValue assigneeField = new RemoteFieldValue("assignee", assignee);

Then I created a RemoteFieldValue array with each of the RemoteFieldValues. The order in the array didn't seem to matter.
RemoteFieldValue[] remoteFields = {priorityField, assigneeField, resolutionField};

Before you can call progressWorkflowAction, you have to find the action id. This can be found on your JIRA install if you go to the administration page and go to the Global Settings section. You should find Workflows and you can choose the workflow you are working with. For our installiation, Resolve Issue has an action id of 5. I think you can also find this from a soap call but I can't remember what method it would be. Once you have that and the issueKey you can go ahead and make the call.

progressWorkflowAction(token, issueKey, action, remoteFields);

So that's all I did. You can also update more values such as the summary if you add another value to the RemoteFieldValue array. I'm sure you know where the documentation is but I'll post it anyways http://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/rpc-jira-plugin/latest/index.html?com/atlassian/jira/rpc/soap/JiraSoapService.html . Also if you run the JIRA Maven2 SOAP Library extension with eclipse, you will get an error telling you if you're missing a field or if something isn't passed correctly. It can be found here http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAEXT/JIRA+Maven2+SOAP+Library .

Yea no problem. It took me a while to figure out...

I think dueDate should be a String. On our install it was dd/mmm/yy so today would be 23/Jun/08. If it's not a String, then it's a Calendar object.

This is what I did (with Perl, not sure what language you were trying to use)

my $soap = SOAP::Lite->proxy("http://server:port/rpc/soap/jirasoapservice-v2?wsdl");
my $auth = $soap->login("login", "password")->result(); #this is my 'token', pass it in to any JIRA SOAP methods: $auth;

my $customfields = $soap->getCustomFields($auth)->result();
my $customfieldid = "";
my $customfieldTarget = "Old ID";
my $target_issue = "TRN-17";
my $customfield_value = "THIS IS THE OLD ID: uploaded with PERLY goodness.";

foreach my $customfield (@{$customfields})
{
if ($customfield->{"name"} eq $customfieldTarget)
{
$customfieldid = $customfield->{"id"};
last;
}
}

my $ref = bless( {
'id' => $customfieldid,
'values' => SOAP::Data->type( string => $customfield_value ),
}, 'RemoteFieldValue' );

my $updatedIssue = $soap->updateIssue($auth, $target_issue, $ref );

print Dumper( $updatedIssue->fault() );
print Dumper( $updatedIssue->result() );

Edited by: Rangent on Apr 30, 2009 5:13 PM

Edited by: Rangent on Apr 30, 2009 5:14 PM