What is the selfGenerated property in a Forge event?

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My app processed an event from Confluence that included a property named selfGenerated. However, I cannot find any mention of this property in Forge docs. Can anyone confirm whether this is a reliable property? And if so, what is its behavior?

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You can find references to it in this table: https://developer.atlassian.com/platform/forge/manifest-reference/modules/trigger/#filter-reference

Filter reference

Property Type Required Description
ignoreSelf boolean The filter property must have either ignoreSelf or expression or both of them defined. Ignore self-generated events.

For example, an app updates an issue and ignores the avi:jira:updated:issue event that is generated by this operation.

Note that currently ignoreSelf only works with Jira events.|

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I tested it today with this scenario: If my app uses asApp().requestJira(route`/rest/api/2/issue/${issueId}, payload) to update a work item, this results in an event with atlassianId equal to the app user and selfGenerated being false. So I currently consider this property being unreliable, which is especially disappointing, as it is not possible to retrieve the app’s user id in Jira (unlike Confluence, which provides a dedicated endpoint for that purpose).

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Hello @JasonMarx ,
You can get the app’s UserId in Jira using the Myself resource (documentation).
Call Get Current User asApp and you get the accountId of the app.

GET /rest/api/3/myself

Hope that helps.

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Hi @FabienLydoire,

Edit: Thank you for your remark. Finally got it to work. Still curious, why such an event is not labeled as “selfGenerated”. That would save a REST call per event.