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JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Patrick Li
Book Image

JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Patrick Li

Overview of this book

JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook, Second Edition covers all the new major features that provide better prioritizing capabilities, enhanced visibility, and the ability to customize JIRA application to meet your needs. We start by upgrading your existing JIRA instance and working through tasks you can perform at the server level to better maintain it. We then delve deep into adapting JIRA to your organization's needs, starting with the visual elements of setting up custom forms to capturing important data with custom fields and screens, and moving on to ensuring data integrity through defining field behaviors. You'll gain insights into JIRA's e-mail capabilities, including managing outgoing e-mail rules and processing incoming e-mails for automated issue creation. The book contains tips and tricks that will make things easier for you as administrators, such as running scripts to automate tasks, getting easy access to logs, and working with tools to troubleshoot problems. The book concludes with a chapter on JIRA Service Desk, which will enable you to set up and customize your own support portal, work with internal teams to solve problems, and achieve optimized services with SLA.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Using JIRA REST API


JIRA exposes many of its features through a set of REST APIs, allowing other applications to interact with it. With these APIs, you can perform operations such as searching, creating, and deleting issues. In fact, several of the add-ons used throughout this book make use of these REST APIs to perform their functions.

Being a web-based standard, JIRA's REST API allows you to use any technology with it. This means, you can write the code in Java, .NET, JavaScript, or even with simple bash scripts.

In this recipe, we will be using the RESTClient Firefox add-on to run a search query against JIRA for getting a list of issues assigned to the currently logged-in user. There are many other tools you can use, such as cURL, and Postman for Chrome.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to run a search query using JIRA's REST API:

  1. Open up REST Client in the Firefox browser.

  2. Set the Method to Get.

  3. Enter the following into the URL text box: http://localhost:8080/rest/api/2/search?jql...