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Overview

Tempo Planner allows for planning team capacity and schedules within Jira.  However, you may have some need to pull that resource planning information out of the Tempo interface and add it to a ticket.

The Tempo API has some severe limitations, but where there’s a will there’s a way.

Team Info

The first thing we’ll examine is how to get information on all of the teams in Tempo Planner.  According the documentation, this isn’t possible.  Per the API documentation, you can return limited very information about plans and allocations. 

Naturally I found this to be unacceptable, and I figured out a way to have the API return all of the teams.   One of the undocumented API endpoints is a search function: /rest/tempo-teams/3/search.    One of the tricks to using this method is that it’s not a GET, it’s a POST, so we have to supply a search parameter as a payload.  When we POST to this endpoint, we supply some JSON: {“teamSearchString”:”<string>”}.  But here’s the rub: the API will accept an empty search string, and return all of the teams as a result.

Allocation Info

Much like team info, there is no public Tempo API endpoint that will

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I try to learn something new every day when it comes to Groovy, or at the very least to challenging my understanding of some of the tenets of the syntax that I think I already know.

This morning I was playing around with the assert statement in ScriptRunner, trying to understand the nuances of it.   I was getting frustrated because I wanted the assertion to fail, but then for the script to keep going.  I couldn’t figure out how to capture the error without having the script stop.

I tried a few things.   I know you can include a log statement to the end of an assertion, like so:

 assert (1 == 2) : "Assertion failed"

 

 java.lang.AssertionError: Assertion failed. Expression: (1 == 2)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper.assertFailed(InvokerHelper.java:438)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ScriptBytecodeAdapter.assertFailed(ScriptBytecodeAdapter.java:670)
	at Script205.run(Script205.groovy:2)

But even with the inclusion of the log statement, my script would grind to a halt when the assertion failed.    I also tried putting the assertion in a try/catch statement, but that didn’t work at all.

I then realized that I had no idea what the functional difference between an assertion and a try/catch statement actually was.  Moreover, I didn’t know when it was appropriate to use one or the

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