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JIRA 5.x Development Cookbook

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JIRA 5.x 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. "JIRA 5.x Development Cookbook" is a one stop resource to master extensions and customizations in JIRA. 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. "JIRA 5.x Development Cookbook" 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, and so on, and a lot of planning done for the project, 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. "JIRA 5.x Development Cookbook" steers towards programming issues, such as creating, editing, and deleting issues, creating new issue operations, managing the various other operations available on issues via the JIRA APIs, and so on. In the latter half of "JIRA 5.x Development Cookbook", 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 5.x Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Adding resources into plugins


It is often required to add static resources such as JavaScript files, CSS files, and so on in to our plugins. To enable JIRA to serve these additional static files, they should be defined as downloadable resources.

Getting ready

A resource can be of different types. It is normally defined as a non-Java file that the plugin requires to operate.

Examples of resources that you will come across during JIRA plugin development include, but are not restricted to, the following:

  • Velocity (*.vm) files required to render a view

  • JavaScript files

  • CSS files

  • Property files for localization

How to do it…

To include a resource, add the resource module to the atlassian-plugin.xml file. The resource module can be added as part of the entire plugin or can be included within another module, restricting it just for that module.

The following are the attributes and elements available for the resource module and their uses:

Name

Description

name

The name of the resource. This is used...