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The type of the return value of issue.get(...) depends on the type of the custom field you are accessing. The following table shows the return type for standard custom field types (provided by JIRA):

Field Type	Return Type	Comments
Checkboxes	Collection<

com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.option.

Option>


Date Picker	java.util.Date


Date Time Picker	java.util.Date


Labels	Set<

com.atlassian.jira.issue.label.

Label>


Number Field	Double


Radio Buttons

com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.option.Option

String
Select List (cascading)	Map<String,

com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.option.

Option>	The key in the map represents the field depth of the select list. A key of null is the first level, and a key of "1" (the string "1") is the second level select list.
Select List (multiple choices)	Collection<

com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.option.

Option>


Select List (single choice)

com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.option.Option

String
Text Field (multi line)	String


Text Field (single line)	String


URL Field	String

User Picker (single user)

com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.

User or

com.atlassian.jira.user.

ApplicationUser (depending on JIRA version)

A lot more custom field types might be available on your JIRA instance, based on the plugins you have installed. The following table shows the return type for the most common "advanced" custom field types:

Field Type	Return Type
Group Picker (multiple groups)	`Collection`<

com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.

Group>

Group Picker (single group)

com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.

Group

Project Picker (single project)

org.ofbiz.core.entity.

GenericValue or

com.atlassian.jira.project.

Project (depending on JIRA version)
User Picker (multiple users)	Collection<

com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.

User> or Collection<

com.atlassian.jira.user.

ApplicationUser> (depending on JIRA version)
Version Picker (multiple versions)	Collection<

com.atlassian.jira.project.version.

Version>

Version Picker (single version)

com.atlassian.jira.project.version.

Version

Standard Fields

In the case of standard fields, <field_name> can be one of the following strings:

field name	returns	description
attachment	`Collection<`

com.atlassian.jira.issue.attachment.

`Attachment>`	the collection of attachments to the issue
versions	`Collection<`

com.atlassian.jira.project.version.

`Version>`	the Affects Version/s field
comment	`List<`

com.atlassian.jira.issue.comments.

`Comment>`	a list of all comments for the issue
components	`Collection<`

com.atlassian.jira.bc.project.component.

ProjectComponent>


fixVersions	`Collection`<

com.atlassian.jira.project.version.

Version>


issuetype

com.atlassian.jira.issue.issuetype.

IssueType


issuelinks	`List<`

com.atlassian.jira.issue.link.

`IssueLink>`	a list of all inward and outward links
workratio	`String`


issuekey	`String`


subtasks	`Collection<`

com.atlassian.jira.issue.

Issue>


priority

com.atlassian.jira.issue.priority.

Priority


resolution

com.atlassian.jira.issue.resolution.

Resolution

status

com.atlassian.jira.issue.status.

Status


project

com.atlassian.jira.project.

Project


security	`Long`	security level ID
timeestimate	`Long`


timeoriginalestimate	`Long`


timespent	`Long`


aggregatetimespent	`Long`


aggregatetimeestimate	`Long`


aggregatetimeoriginalestimate	`Long`

assignee

com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.

User or

com.atlassian.jira.user.

ApplicationUser (depending on JIRA version)


reporter

com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.

User or

com.atlassian.jira.user.

ApplicationUser (depending on JIRA version)


description	`String`


environment	`String`


summary	`String`


duedate

java.sql.

Timestamp

updated

java.sql.

Timestamp


created

java.sql.

Timestamp

resolutiondate

java.sql.

Timestamp


labels	`Set<`

com.atlassian.jira.issue.label.

Label>


watches	`Collection`<

com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.

User> or

Collection<

com.atlassian.jira.user.

ApplicationUser> (depending on JIRA version)

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