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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

Conditions on issue operations


When new operations are created, it is often a requirement to hide them or show them, based on the permissions or state of the issue or something similar. JIRA allows conditions to be added while defining the web items, and the web item won't show up when the conditions are not satisfied.

In this recipe, let us lock down the new issue operation, created in the previous recipe, to a specific user named admin.

Getting ready...

Create the ManageProject issue operation, as explained in the previous recipe.

How to do it...

Following are the steps to add a new condition to an issue operation's web item:

  1. Create the condition class. Since the issue operation is a web item, the easiest thing to do is to extend the com.atlassian.jira.plugin.webfragment.conditions.AbstractWebCondition class.While extending AbstractWebCondition, we will have to implement the shouldDisplay method, as shown here:

            @Override 
            public boolean shouldDisplay(ApplicationUser user...