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Event types

Every event has a source and a type, such as github and issue_comment. A routing rule matches one (source, type) pair, which the rule form’s Event type list shows by its label, such as GitHub: Issue/PR Comment. Its conditions then test the event’s attributes.

This page lists the built-in types, from the GitHub and Jira integrations. An organisation’s own types have the source custom and the attributes their schema defines; see Custom events.

Every type has two attributes:

  • body: the event’s text, such as a comment. Its meaning depends on the type, and it is empty for types that have no text.
  • url: the URL of what the event is about, such as a comment or an issue.

Each type adds others. An attribute can hold several values, such as every user mentioned in a comment, and a condition holds if any of them satisfies it. Conditions compare exactly and are case-sensitive; see Matching.

The Label column is what the rule form shows for the attribute.

Source github. GitHub usernames are given without the leading @.

GitHub: Issue/PR Comment. A comment on an issue or a pull request is created or edited.

Attribute Label Value
body Comment Body The comment’s text.
url Issue/PR URL The comment’s URL, such as https://github.com/owner/repo/issues/123#issuecomment-456.
mention Mention Each username @-mentioned in the comment.
user User The username of the commenter.

GitHub: PR Review Comment. An inline review comment on a pull request is created or edited.

Attribute Label Value
body Review Comment Body The review comment’s text.
url PR URL The review comment’s URL, such as https://github.com/owner/repo/pull/123#discussion_r456.
mention Mention Each username @-mentioned in the review comment.
user User The username of the reviewer.

The event also carries, for the agent but not for conditions, the file and line the comment is on (path, line, start_line, side) and its diff_hunk.

GitHub: PR Review. A review with a summary is submitted on a pull request.

Attribute Label Value
body Review Body The review’s summary.
url PR URL The review’s URL, such as https://github.com/owner/repo/pull/123#pullrequestreview-456.
mention Mention Each username @-mentioned in the summary.
user User The username of the reviewer.

GitHub: Issue Assigned. An issue is assigned to someone.

Attribute Label Value
body Issue Body Empty.
url Issue URL The issue’s URL, such as https://github.com/owner/repo/issues/123.
assignee Assignee The username newly assigned.
user User The username of who assigned it.

GitHub: PR Assigned. A pull request is assigned to someone.

Attribute Label Value
body PR Body Empty.
url PR URL The pull request’s URL, such as https://github.com/owner/repo/pull/123.
assignee Assignee The username newly assigned.
user User The username of who assigned it.

GitHub: PR Opened. A pull request is opened.

Attribute Label Value
body PR Description Empty.
url PR URL The pull request’s URL.
user User The username of who opened it.

GitHub: PR Closed. A pull request is closed, with or without merging.

Attribute Label Value
body PR Description merged or closed, as state.
url PR URL The pull request’s URL.
state State merged if it was merged, otherwise closed.
user User The username of who closed or merged it.

GitHub: Label Added. A label is added to an issue or a pull request. Adding several labels sends one event per label.

Attribute Label Value
body Issue/PR Body Empty.
url Issue/PR URL The issue’s or pull request’s URL.
label Label The label added.
user User The username of who added it.

Source atlassian. People are identified by their Atlassian account ID, such as 5b10ac8d82e05b22cc7d4ef5. Enter the bare ID, not the [~accountid:…] form Jira uses in comment text.

Jira: Issue Comment. A comment is added to an issue.

Attribute Label Value
body Comment Body The comment’s text.
url Issue URL The comment’s URL, such as https://your-domain.atlassian.net/browse/PROJ-123?focusedCommentId=10001.
mention Mention The account ID of each person @-mentioned in the comment.
user User The account ID of the commenter.

Jira: Label Added. One or more labels are added to an issue. Adding several at once sends one event with all of them.

Attribute Label Value
body Issue Description Empty.
url Issue URL The issue’s URL, such as https://your-domain.atlassian.net/browse/PROJ-123.
label Label Each label added.
user User The account ID of who added them.

Jira: Issue Assigned. An issue is assigned to someone.

Attribute Label Value
body Issue Description Empty.
url Issue URL The issue’s URL.
assignee Assignee The account ID of the new assignee.
user User The account ID of who assigned it.

The url attribute is the event’s own URL, as listed above, so a url condition sees the comment’s or review’s URL, with its fragment or query string. Use prefix to scope a rule to a repository or a project: url prefix https://github.com/owner/repo/ or url prefix https://your-domain.atlassian.net/browse/PROJ-.

To find subscribed tasks, gritz reduces the URL to the issue or pull request it belongs to, so an event about a comment reaches the tasks subscribed to its issue. See Subscriptions.