How to update active objects in a plugin

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Hello everyone,
I need to update entries in AO whenever the user changes input in a Jira workflow post-function via the console. I am not sure exactly where to do this.

Scenario: A Jira admin can go into the workflow of a project, edit the post-function, and change some value input. Once the workflow is published, this value is then updated in AO.

I have a service with an update function that takes a Jira projectKey (as unique identifier, the new value to update, and the value’s type (so I know what to update in the DB). I have the following query to get the AO based on projectKey:
Data[] data = ao.find(data.class, Query.select().where("projectKey == ?", projectKey));

AO entity classes: Data, DataService, DataServiceImp
Postfunction classes: CreateRepo and CreateRepoFactory

Does anyone know where I can listen for the changes in console and change them in AO accordingly? I tried to add code to the CreateRepoFactory class but can’t seem to access the projectKey (or any unique identifier for the project) from inside there.

Thank you!
Em

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Once you have the data object that you want to update you can update the values you need and then call data.save() you may need to do this inside a transaction for additional safety.

e.g you can do it right inside the update function.

e.g.

public void updateValue(String projectKey, String newValue){
    //You will need to import transactionTemplate just the same as AO
    transactionTemplate.execute(()->{
        Data[] data = ao.find(Data.class, Query.select().where("projectKey = ?", projectKey));
        if(data.length != 1) //error handling of some kind here
        data[0].setValue(newValue);
        data.save();
        return null;
    }
}

In many cases this should be refactored into a service component which handles all of create, find, update and delete for your entities

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