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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

Accessing the JIRA configuration properties


We have seen how to use PropertySet to store details of plugins in the previous recipes. In this recipe, we will see how we can access the JIRA configuration properties using PropertySet.

How to do it...

There are lots of global configuration settings in JIRA that are configured using administration menus. More on the various options can be read at http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Configuring+Global+Settings. Where does JIRA store this information and how do we access it?

All these configuration properties, such as settings under General Configuration, Base URL, Attachments Path, License Info, and more, are stored in the PropertySet tables we saw earlier. They are stored against a virtual entity, jira.properties. This is the same virtual entity that is used when PropertySet is retrieved using PropertiesManager, as we saw while persisting plugin information.

Here, all the property key entries are stored in the propertyentry table, with jira...