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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

Progressing an issue in workflow using SOAP


This is something everyone wants to do when JIRA is integrated with third-party applications. The status of an issue needs to be changed for various use cases and the right way to do this is to progress the issue through its workflow.

Progressing will move the issue to the appropriate statuses and will fire the appropriate post functions and events. In this recipe, we will see how to do the same.

Getting ready

As usual, create a SOAP client if you have not already done so.

How to do it...

JIRA exposes the method, progressWorkflowAction to progress an issue through its workflow. The following are the steps to do it:

  1. Identify the ID of the action that we should execute from the current state. For every issue status, there is a step associated with it and there are zero or more transitions to the other steps in the workflow.

    The action ID can be identified from the workflow screen within brackets alongside the transition name, as shown in the following screenshot...