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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

Using filters to intercept queries in JIRA


Servlet filters provide a powerful mechanism to intercept queries and do wise things such as profiling, monitoring, content generation, and so on. It works exactly like any normal Java servlet filter and JIRA provides the Servlet Filter Plugin Module to add them using plugins. In this recipe, we will learn about how to use filter to intercept certain queries to JIRA and how we can utilize them!

As with other servlet plugin modules, a servlet-filter plugin module also has a unique key and a class associated with it. The name attribute holds the human-readable name of the filter and weight indicates the order in which the filter will be placed in the filter chain. The higher the weight, the lower the filter's position.

There is another important attribute location that denotes the position of the filter in the application's filter chain. Following are the four possible values for the location:

  • after-encoding: Very top of the filter chain in the application...