Issue Summary

When using the "TRANSITION" LOCATION_CONTEXT as described in the developer tutorial, as such:

<web-item key="my-hint" name="myHint" i18n-name-key="my-hint.name" section="jira.hints/TRANSITION" weight="40">
        <label>Custom hint for jira.hints/TRANSITION</label>
    </web-item>

and setting up the appropriate screens in the workflow (attach a screen when transitioning an issue) such that a dialog appears, an error is thrown:

and no hint is displayed:

Unlike when other Locations are used, such as "ASSIGN":

Environment

Reproducible in Jira 7.10.0

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a P2 app
2. Add a web-item in atlassian-plugin with " jira.hints/TRANSITION"
3. Setup your project workflow and attach a screen on a transition
4. Click on transition and notice error is thrown

Expected Results

A hint is displayed

Actual Results

An error is thrown

The below exception is thrown in the terminal:

0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 /secure/CommentAssignIssue!default.jspa [c.a.j.w.action.issue.CommentAssignIssue] Illegal hint context 'transition' specified!

Notes

Issue thrown by JiraWebActionSupport#getHint

Workaround

Currently there is no known workaround for this behavior. A workaround will be added here when available