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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

Parsing a JQL query in plugins


In the previous recipe, we saw how to build a query to search within JIRA. In this recipe, we will see searching again, but without building a query using the APIs. We will use the JQL query as it is written in the Issue Navigator in advanced mode and search using the same.

How to do it...

Suppose we know the query that we want to execute. Let us assume it is the same we saw in the previous recipe: project = "DEMO" and assignee = currentUser().

The following is how we do it:

  1. Parse the JQL query:

             String jqlQuery = "project = "DEMO" and assignee = currentUser()";
             SearchService.ParseResult parseResult = 
             searchService.parseQuery(user, jqlQuery);
  2. Check if the parsed result is valid or not:

             if (parseResult.isValid())
             {
                 // Carry On 
             } else { 
                // Log the error and exit!
             }
  3. If the result is valid, get the Query object from the ParseResult:

             Query...