Send latest attachment with webhook + what is the format of the POST when using smart value

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#1

With a project webhook, I want to send the latest attachment using the smart value {{issue.attachment.last}}.

This works, though the {{issue.attachment.last}} sends the latest in the list, not the latest added…! But I think I have found a work-around for this.

My colleague on the other side (Jira Spoke in ServiceNow), needs to parse and map this to the attachment field in SN. But: the format of the smartvalue inside the JSON load is not valid JSON. The {{issue.attachment.last}} is in a Bean format.

The payload sent from Jira is as follows:

{
"id":"388132",
"attachment":
"SmartAttachmentBean
{source=AttachmentBean
{self='[https://tryg01.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/attachment/298653'](https://tryg01.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/attachment/298653%27), id=298653, filename='V center1_09.png', 
author=UserBean

Can’t post it all or attach because I am a new user… sigh

The custom data configured as payload is:

{
"id": "{{issue.id}}",
"attachment": "{{issue.attachment.last}}" 
}

The {{issue.id}} is nice and clean, but the attachment is another format.

#2

Hi,

Thanks for reaching out. Unfortunately there isn’t really an easy elegant way to convert the bean into a json parsable format. You would need to manually specify the fields in the payload you are sending, ie

{
"id": "{{issue.id}}",
"attachment": {
  "id": "{{issue.attachment.last.id}}",
  "filename": "{{issue.attachment.last.filename}}",
  "size": "{{issue.attachment.last.size}}",
  etc 
}
}

Apologies for the inconvenience, I have raised an improvement ticket for this here [AUT-2383] - Code Barrel JIRA

Cheers
Sam

#3

Thanks Sam. And thanks for raising an improvement issue.

Can you provide an answer on how to retrieve the latest added attachment on an issue? attacment.last is not enough.

And: is there a possibility to include the link to the attachment in Jira? Otherwise it cannot be retrieved by another system.

Br, Kristoffer