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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

Customizing the change log value


One scenario we might come across when writing certain custom field types is to manipulate the way we display the change log. For a normal Version Picker custom field, the change log is displayed as follows:

Here, Test Version is the field name. The first value you see, Test1 [10000], is the old value, and the second value, Test2 [10001], is the new value.

Getting ready

Write your custom field type, as described in the first recipe of this chapter.

How to do it...

As you saw in the preceding screen, the change log value for both the old value and the new value are displayed in the following format:

change log string [change log id]

Both the string value and ID value are stored in the ChangeItem table. But before storing the value in the database, this value is generated from the individual custom fields. That is where we need to intercept to manipulate the way the change log is written.

There are two methods, one for changelog string and another for changelog id...