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JIRA Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Jobin Kuruvilla
Book Image

JIRA Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Jobin Kuruvilla

Overview of this book

JIRA provides issue and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development. With the new version of JIRA, you can create your own JIRA plugins and customize the look and feel of your JIRA UI easier than ever. JIRA Development Cookbook , Third Edition, is a one-stop resource to master extensions and customizations in JIRA. This book starts with recipes about simplifying the plugin development process followed by recipes dedicated to the plugin framework. Then, you will move on to writing custom field plugins to create new field types or custom searchers. You will also learn how to program and customize workflows to transform JIRA into a user-friendly system. With so much data spanning different projects, issues, and so on, we will cover how to work on reports and gadgets to get customized data according to our needs. At the end of the book, you will learn how to customize JIRA by adding new tabs, menus, and web items; communicate with JIRA via the REST APIs; and work with the JIRA database.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
JIRA Development Cookbook Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Retrieving permissions on issues from a database


JIRA is quite powerful in enforcing permissions on issues. There are quite a lot of configuration options in controlling who can do what. All these revolve around two different schemes in JIRA, the Permission scheme and the Issue Security scheme.

The Permission scheme enforces project-level security, whereas the Issue Security scheme enforces issue-level security. It is possible for you to grant access to view issues in a project and yet hide some of those issues from the user. However, the reverse is not possible, that is, one cannot grant access to certain selected issues when the user originally didn't have access to view the issues in the project.

The various tables involved in storing permission information in the JIRA database, along with the relations between them, can be depicted as follows:

As you can see here, both the Permission schemes and Issue Security schemes are related to a project via the nodeassociation table. Here, SOURCE_NODE_ENTITY...