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 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 in a few simple steps:

1. Create commentParams of type CommentService.CommentParameters, with the appropriate values. You can do it with the help of CommentService.CommentParameters.CommentParametersBuilder, as shown here:

           CommentService.CommentParameters commentParams = 
           new CommentService.CommentParameters
           .CommentParametersBuilder().issue(issue)
           .body(commentString).build();

   Here, commentString is the comment we are adding and issue is the issue on which the comment is added.

2. Validate...