Post to Slack when a critical bug is created in Jira Cloud

This template demonstates how to check if the new issue that was created in Jira Cloud is "a critical bug", if it is, then send a message to a configured Slack channel. Get started to learn more.

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📋 Overview

This template demonstates how to check if the new issue that was created in Jira Cloud is "a critical bug", if it is, then send a message to a configured Slack channel.

🖊️ Setup

• Configure the API Connection and Event Listener by creating connectors for Jira Cloud and Slack, or use existing ones.
• Go to Parameters and configure parameters to meet you needs.

🚀 Usage

Create a new issue in Jira Cloud that matches a condition for "critical bug", after successful event processing a new message should be sent to the configured Slack channel.

import { IssueCreatedEvent } from '@sr-connect/jira-cloud/events';
import Slack from './api/slack';

/**
 * This function checks if the new issue that was created is a critical bug, and if it is then sends a message to pre-defined Slack channel.
 *
 * @param event Object that holds Issue Created event data
 * @param context Object that holds function invocation context data
 */
export default async function (event: IssueCreatedEvent, context: Context) {
    if (context.triggerType === 'MANUAL') {
        console.error('This script is designed to be triggered externally or manually from the Event Listener. Please consider using Event Listener Test Event Payload if you need to trigger this script manually.');
        return;
    }

    const { SLACK_CHANNEL, ISSUE_TYPE_NAME, ISSUE_PRIORITY_NAME } = getEnvVars(context);

    // Check if the Issue is critical bug
    if (event.issue.fields.issuetype?.name === ISSUE_TYPE_NAME && event.issue.fields.priority?.name === ISSUE_PRIORITY_NAME) {
        // If it is, then log out the issue key
        console.log(`Critical bug was created: ${event.issue.key}`);

        // And send a message to pre-defined Slack channel
        await Slack.Chat.postMessage({
            body: {
                channel: SLACK_CHANNEL,
                text: `New critical bug was created - Key: ${event.issue.key} - Reporter: ${event.issue.fields.reporter?.displayName ?? 'Unknown'} - Summary: ${event.issue.fields.summary}`
            }
        });
    }
}

interface EnvVars {
    SLACK_CHANNEL: string;
    ISSUE_TYPE_NAME: string;
    ISSUE_PRIORITY_NAME: string;
}

export function getEnvVars(context: Context) {
    return context.environment.vars as EnvVars;
}