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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

Discarding fields while cloning


Cloning of issues in JIRA is an easy way to replicate an existing issue. While cloning, a new issue is created exactly similar to the original issue with identical values for all its fields, except for a few special ones. The special ones include created date, updated date, issue key, status, and so on.

But, in addition to the special fields JIRA has chosen, we might want to ignore a few other fields while cloning an issue. How about a unique custom field? We surely don't want to replicate that while cloning?

Here is an easy way to discard any such fields while cloning an issue.

Getting ready...

Create a Skeleton plugin using the Atlassian Plugin SDK. It is recommended to read the Extending JIRA actions recipe before proceeding.

How to do it...

As we have seen while extending JIRA actions in the second chapter, all we need to do here is to create a new webwork action that extends the existing JIRA clone action and overrides the required method. In this specific...