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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

Updating issue status in a database


In this recipe, we will quickly see how to update the status of an issue in the JIRA database.

Getting ready

Go through the previous recipe to understand the workflow related tables in JIRA.

How to do it...

Refer to the follow steps to update the status of an issue in JIRA:

  1. Stop the JIRA server.

  2. Connect to JIRA database.

  3. Update the issuestatus field in jiraissue table with the status you need:

    UPDATE jiraissue SET issuestatus = (select id from issuestatus where pname = 'Closed') where pkey = 'DEMO-123';
  4. Modify the step_id in the os_currentstep table with the step ID linked to the status you used in the previous step. The step_id can be found in the workflow XML alongside the step name within brackets, as shown in the following screenshot:

    As you can see, the status Closed in the JIRA default workflow is linked to the Closed step with an id value 6. Now, the step_id can be updated as follows:

    UPDATE os_currentstep SET step_id = 6 where entry_id = (select workflow_id...