Bulk Delete Comments from (Self-Hosted) JIRA Issues (Misc)

Category: Misc

The following snippet can be passed into JIRA's Groovy Script/ScriptRunner plugin in order to locate comments within a given issue and bulk delete them

Once complete, it's wise to update the indexes within the administration area

Details

  • Language: Misc

Snippet

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.MutableIssue
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.comments.Comment
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.comments.CommentManager

String issueKey = '[[ISSUE KEY]]'

IssueManager issueManager = ComponentAccessor.issueManager
CommentManager commentManager = ComponentAccessor.commentManager

MutableIssue issue = issueManager.getIssueObject(issueKey)
List<Comment> comments = commentManager.getComments(issue)
comments.each {comment ->
    if (comment.body.contains('[[SEARCH TEXT]]')) {
        commentManager.delete(comment)
    }
}

Usage Example

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueManager
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.MutableIssue
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.comments.Comment
import com.atlassian.jira.issue.comments.CommentManager

String issueKey = 'ISS-30'

IssueManager issueManager = ComponentAccessor.issueManager
CommentManager commentManager = ComponentAccessor.commentManager

MutableIssue issue = issueManager.getIssueObject(issueKey)
List<Comment> comments = commentManager.getComments(issue)
comments.each {comment ->
    if (comment.body.contains('Me Too')) {
        commentManager.delete(comment)
    }
}