JIRA Development Cookbook - Third Edition

Deleting an issue

In this recipe, let us look at deleting an issue programmatically.

How to do it...

Let us assume that we have an existing issue object. For deletion as well, we will use the IssueService class. Following are the steps to do it:

1. Validate the delete operation on the issue using IssueService:

           DeleteValidationResult deleteValidationResult = 
           issueService.validateDelete(user, issue.getId());

   Here, the issue is the existing issue object that needs to be deleted.

2. If deleteValidationResult is valid, invoke the delete operation:

           if (deleteValidationResult.isValid()) { 
               ErrorCollection deleteErrors = issueService.delete(user, 
               deleteValidationResult); 
           }

3. If the deleteValidationResult is invalid, ...