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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

Adding resources into plugins


It is often required to add static resources such as JavaScript files, CSS files, and so on, in our plugins. To enable JIRA to serve these additional static files, they should be defined as downloadable resources.

Getting ready

A resource can be of different types. It is normally defined as a non-Java file that the plugin requires to operate.

Examples of resources that you will come across during JIRA plugin development include, but are not restricted to, the following:

  • Velocity (*.vm) files required to render a view

  • JavaScript files

  • CSS files

  • Property files for localization

How to do it...

To include a resource, add the resource module to the atlassian-plugin.xml file. The resource module can be added as part of the entire plugin or can be included within another module, restricting it just for that module.

The following are the attributes and elements available for the resource module, and their uses:

Name

Description

name

Name of the resource. This is used by the...