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JIRA Development Cookbook

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JIRA Development Cookbook

Overview of this book

JIRA provides issue tracking and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development.This book is your one-stop resource to master JIRA extension and customization. You will learn how to create your own JIRA plugins, customize the look and feel of your JIRA UI, work with Workflows, Issues, Custom Fields, and much more.The book starts with recipes on simplifying the Plugin development process followed by a complete chapter dedicated to the Plugin Framework to master Plugins in JIRA.Then we will move on to writing custom field plugins to create new field types or custom searchers. We then learn how to program and customize Workflows to transform JIRA into a user-friendly system. Reporting support in an application like JIRA is inevitable! With so much data spanning across different projects, issues, etc and a lot of project planning done on it, we will cover how to work on reports and gadgets to get customized data according to our needs. We will then look at customizing the various searching aspects of JIRA such as JQL, searching in plugins, managing filters, and so on. Then the book steers towards programming Issues, i.e. creating/editing/deleting issues, creating new issue operations, managing the various other operations available on issues via the JIRA APIs etc. In the latter half of the book, you will learn how to customize JIRA by adding new tabs, menus, and web items, communicate with JIRA via the REST, SOAP or XML/RPC interfaces, and work with the JIRA database.The book ends with a chapter on useful and general JIRA recipes.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
JIRA Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Making custom fields sortable


We have seen the creation of new custom fields, writing new searchers for them, and so on. Another important feature with the fields, be it custom fields or the standard JIRA fields, is to use them for sorting. But simply writing a new custom field type won't enable sorting on that field.

In this recipe, we will see how to enable sorting on custom fields.

Getting ready

Create the new custom field type that we need to enable searching for.

How to do it...

This is easy to do. There are only two simple steps that you need to do to make sure the custom field is a sortable field:

  1. Implement the SortableCustomField interface. A new custom field type will look like the following:

    public class DemoCFType extends AbstractCustomFieldType implements SortableCustomField

    If you are extending an existing custom field type like TextCFType, it already implements the interface.

  2. Implement the compare method. Following is an example:

    public int compare(Object customFieldObjectValue1, Object...