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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

Creating an issue from a plugin


In this recipe, we will see how to create an issue from a plugin programmatically. We will be using IssueServiceto take advantage of its validation and error handling capabilities.

How to do it...

Following are the steps to create an issue using the IssueService:

  1. Create an instance of the IssueService class. You can either inject it in the constructor, or get it from the ComponentAccessor, as shown:

            IssueService issueService = ComponentAccessor.getIssueService();
  2. Create the issue input parameters. In this step, we will set all the values that are required to create the issue using the IssueInputParameters class:

    a. Create an instance of the IssueInputParameters class:

                IssueInputParameters issueInputParameters =
                 issueService.newIssueInputParameters();

    b.  Populate the IssueInputParameters with the values required to create the issue, as shown in the next few lines of code:

                issueInputParameters
                 .setProjectId...