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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

Adding web resources into plugins


The web resources plugin module, like the resource module we just saw, allows defining downloadable resources. The difference is that the web resources are added at the top of the page in the header with the cache-related headers set to never expire.

An additional advantage of using the web resources module is that we can specify the resources to be included in specific contexts within the application.

How to do it...

The root element for the web resource plugin module is web-resource. It supports the following attributes:

Name

Description

key

The only mandatory attribute. This should be unique within the plugin.

state

Indicates whether the plugin module should be disabled by default or not. Default value is "enabled". state="disabled" will keep this module disabled at startup.

i18n-name-key

The localization key for the human-readable name of the plugin module.

name

Human-readable name of the web resource.

system

Indicates whether the plugin module...