Can you describe your use cases more? How would you use this variable?

Hi Wisen,

My use case is to trigger an Artifactory object promotion job from a JIRA comment.

promote this build #35

I want the comment as an environment variable for easy parsing to extract the build number.

This is the only way I can see to link the required build number and the JIRA issue.

Despite reporting earlier not being able to extract custom fields, in our organisation we are prohibited from actually using them so this is not an option.

Apart from this use case I think the general ability to create conditional Jenkins workflows on the basis of the JIRA comment would be invaluable.

Thanks and regards.

I don't think I understand what you mean by "conditional Jenkins workflow". If I understand this correctly, basically the feature request is:
When: Jenkins job is triggered by a JIRA comment
Then: JIRA_NEW_COMMENT environment variable should be injected to the build
And: It should contain the comment that has been added to JIRA

Please CMIIW.

For workaround, you should be able to hit JIRA REST API with the JIRA_ISSUE_KEY information and grab the latest comment.

You have summarised this request perfectly.

By conditional workflow I mean only that the content of the comment can then be used to control the internal logic of, e.g. a shell script.

If JIRA_NEW_COMMENT regex contains 'x' do this, or if contains 'y' do that..

The work around is fine for now.