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JIRA Development Cookbook

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JIRA Development Cookbook

Overview of this book

JIRA provides issue tracking and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development.This book is your one-stop resource to master JIRA extension and customization. You will learn how to create your own JIRA plugins, customize the look and feel of your JIRA UI, work with Workflows, Issues, Custom Fields, and much more.The book starts with recipes on simplifying the Plugin development process followed by a complete chapter dedicated to the Plugin Framework to master Plugins in JIRA.Then we will move on to writing custom field plugins to create new field types or custom searchers. We then learn how to program and customize Workflows to transform JIRA into a user-friendly system. Reporting support in an application like JIRA is inevitable! With so much data spanning across different projects, issues, etc and a lot of project planning done on it, we will cover how to work on reports and gadgets to get customized data according to our needs. We will then look at customizing the various searching aspects of JIRA such as JQL, searching in plugins, managing filters, and so on. Then the book steers towards programming Issues, i.e. creating/editing/deleting issues, creating new issue operations, managing the various other operations available on issues via the JIRA APIs etc. In the latter half of the book, you will learn how to customize JIRA by adding new tabs, menus, and web items, communicate with JIRA via the REST, SOAP or XML/RPC interfaces, and work with the JIRA database.The book ends with a chapter on useful and general JIRA recipes.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
JIRA Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


We have already seen in Chapter 2, Understanding Plugin Framework, that JIRA uses the Ofbiz suite's Entity Engine module to deal with database operations.

OfBiz stands for Open For Business and the OfBiz Entity Engine is a set of tools and patterns used to model and manage entity-specific data.

As per the definition from the standard entity-relationship modeling concepts of RDBMS, an entity is a piece of data defined by a set of fields and a set of relations to other entities.

In JIRA, these entities are defined in two files, entitygroup.xml and entitymodel.xml, both residing in the WEB-INF/classes/entitydefs folder. entitygroup.xml stores the entity names for a previously-defined group. If you look at the file, you will see that, the default group in JIRA is named default; you will find the same defined in the entity configuration file, which we will see in a moment. entitymodel.xml holds the actual entity definitions, details of which we will see in the recipes.

The entity configuration...