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JIRA Development Cookbook

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JIRA Development Cookbook

Overview of this book

JIRA provides issue tracking and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development.This book is your one-stop resource to master JIRA extension and customization. You will learn how to create your own JIRA plugins, customize the look and feel of your JIRA UI, work with Workflows, Issues, Custom Fields, and much more.The book starts with recipes on simplifying the Plugin development process followed by a complete chapter dedicated to the Plugin Framework to master Plugins in JIRA.Then we will move on to writing custom field plugins to create new field types or custom searchers. We then learn how to program and customize Workflows to transform JIRA into a user-friendly system. Reporting support in an application like JIRA is inevitable! With so much data spanning across different projects, issues, etc and a lot of project planning done on it, we will cover how to work on reports and gadgets to get customized data according to our needs. We will then look at customizing the various searching aspects of JIRA such as JQL, searching in plugins, managing filters, and so on. Then the book steers towards programming Issues, i.e. creating/editing/deleting issues, creating new issue operations, managing the various other operations available on issues via the JIRA APIs etc. In the latter half of the book, you will learn how to customize JIRA by adding new tabs, menus, and web items, communicate with JIRA via the REST, SOAP or XML/RPC interfaces, and work with the JIRA database.The book ends with a chapter on useful and general JIRA recipes.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
JIRA Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Programming custom field options


We have seen how to create a custom field type, search for it, and read/update its value from/on an issue. But one important aspect of multi-valued custom fields and one that we haven't seen yet is custom field options.

On a multi-valued custom field, the administrator can configure the allowed set of values, also called options. Once the options are configured, users can only select values within that set of options and there is a validation done to ensure that this is the case.

So, how do we programmatically read those options or add a new option to the custom field so that it can be later set on an issue? Let us have a look at that in this recipe.

Getting ready

Create a multi-valued custom field, say X, in your JIRA instance. Add a few options onto the field X.

How to do it...

To deal with custom field options, Atlassian has written a manager class named OptionsManager.

Following are the steps to get the options configured for a custom field:

  1. Get an instance of...