Working with comments on issues

In this recipe, we will see how to manage commenting on issues using the JIRA API.

Let us have a look at all of 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.

How to do it...

JIRA uses the CommentService class to manage the comments on an issue.

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...