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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

Remote administration methods


Before we wind up the various useful methods using remote APIs, we can have a look at the administration methods. In this recipe, we will just concentrate on some methods revolving around the creation of projects and permissions. The remaining methods are an easy read once you have a fair idea of the ones we are discussing in this recipe.

Since JRJC doesn't support all the administration methods, let us look at the required REST method details, along with sample request and response data, as we did in the Remote user and group management recipe.

How to do it...

Let us consider a simple scenario to explain some of the administrative REST APIs:

  1. Create a simple permission scheme. The permission scheme will grant Project Admin permissions to the jira-administrators group and will ignore the rest of the permissions.

  2. Create a project.

  3. Update the project with the new permission scheme, created in step 1.

  4. Retrieve the project roles.

  5. Add a user to the Administrators project...