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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

Redirecting to a different page in webwork actions


This recipe covers a very simple concept in JIRA web actions. While writing plugins, we often come across scenarios where we need to navigate to a new page, such as a Dashboard, to browse a new project, or view another issue after the action has executed. JiraWebActionSupport provides a simple method for doing this, which we will see in this recipe.

How to do it...

What if we want to navigate to the Dashboard instead of rendering a success view when an action is executed? What if we can't directly link it from the JSP page or the velocity template because we want to perform something in the action class beforehand?

All you need to do here is to return getRedirect(URL) in the action class's doExecute method (or the appropriate method)! This method will redirect to the specified location after the action method has successfully finished. If there are any errors, it will go to the error page, as the getRedirect() method returns Action.ERROR in...