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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 new webwork actions to JIRA


Most of the time, plugin developers will find themselves writing new actions in JIRA to introduce new functionality. Usually, these actions are invoked from new web-item links configured at different places in the UI. It could also be from customized JSPs or other parts of the JIRA framework.

New actions can be added to JIRA with the help of the webwork plugin module.

Getting ready

Before we start, it probably makes sense to have a look at the webwork plugin module. Following are the key attributes supported:

Name

Description

key

A unique key within the plugin. It will be used as the identifier for the plugin.

i18n-name-key

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

name

Human-readable name of the webwork action.

roles-required

Used to determine which roles can access this action. The permissions are the short names found in the com.atlassian.jira.security.Permissions class, and will only work for global-based permissions...