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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

Linking directly to search queries


Haven't you wondered how we can link to a query from a template, or link a JSP from a custom page or plugin page? In this recipe, we will see how we can create a link programmatically and otherwise to use in various places.

How to do it…

Let us first look at creating a search link programmatically. Perform the following steps:

  1. Create the Query object using JqlQueryBuilder, as we have seen in the previous recipe.

  2. Get an instance of the SearchService class. It could be injected in the constructor of your plugin using a dependency injection, or it can be retrieved from the ComponentAccessor class as follows:

    SearchService searchService = ComponentAccessor.getComponent(SearchService.class);
  3. Retrieve the query string from the Query object using SearchService, shown as follows:

    String queryString = searchService.getQueryString(user, query);
  4. Construct the link using the context path. In JSPs, you can do it as shown in the following lines of code:

    <a href="<%= request...