Working with comments on issues
In this recipe, we will see how to manage commenting on issues using the JIRA API.
How to do it...
JIRA uses the CommentService class to manage the comments on an issue. Let us have a look at all the three major operations—creating, editing, and deleting comments. We will also have a look at how to restrict the comment visibility to a specific group of people or to a project role.
Creating comments on issues
A comment can be added on to an issue as follows:
Comment comment = this.commentService.create(user, issue, commentString, false, new SimpleErrorCollection());
Here, commentString is the comment we are adding, user is the user adding the comment, and issue is the issue on which the comment is added. The fourth argument is a boolean that determines whether an event should be dispatched or not. If it is true, an Issue Commented event is thrown.
Creating comments on an issue and restricting it to a project role or group
If we need to restrict the visibility of the...
