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JIRA 5.x Development Cookbook

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JIRA 5.x 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. "JIRA 5.x Development Cookbook" is a one stop resource to master extensions and customizations in JIRA. 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. "JIRA 5.x Development Cookbook" 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, and so on, and a lot of planning done for the project, 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. "JIRA 5.x Development Cookbook" steers towards programming issues, such as creating, editing, and deleting issues, creating new issue operations, managing the various other operations available on issues via the JIRA APIs, and so on. In the latter half of "JIRA 5.x Development Cookbook", 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 5.x Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Writing a simple custom field


In this recipe, we will see how to write a new custom field type. Once created, we can create a number of custom fields of this type on our JIRA instance that can then be used to capture information on the issues.

New custom field types are created with the help of the customfield-type module. The following are the key attributes supported:

Name

Description

key

This should be unique within the plugin

class

Must implement the com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.CustomFieldType interface

i18n-name-key

The localization key for the human-readable name of the plugin module

name

Human-readable name of the web resource

The following are the key elements supported:

Name

Description

description

Description of the custom field type.

resource type="velocity"

Velocity templates for the custom field views.

valid-searcher

From JIRA 5.2, you can define a searcher in the custom field definition itself. This element is most useful when we have...