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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

Making the custom field project importable


Importing projects is the default functionality in JIRA. And while importing projects, JIRA lets you copy all the issue data across, but only if it is asked to do so!

Let us see how we can make the custom field's project importable, or in simple words, inform JIRA that our fields are okay to be imported!

How to do it...

To tag our custom field as project-importable, we need to implement the following interface:

com.atlassian.jira.imports.project.customfield.ProjectImportableCustomField

You will have to then implement the following method:

ProjectCustomFieldImporter getProjectImporter();

There are existing implementations for the ProjectCustomFieldImporter class, such as the SelectCustomFieldImporter class, which we can reuse. It is in this class that we check whether the value getting imported is a valid value or not.

For example, in the case of a select field, we need to make sure that the value being imported is a valid option configured in the custom...