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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 web resources into plugins


The web resources plugin module, like the resource module we just saw, allows for the defining of downloadable resources. The difference is that the web resources are added at the top of the page in the header with the cache-related headers set to never expire.

An additional advantage of using the web resources module is that we can specify the resources to be included in specific contexts within the application.

How to do it…

The root element for the web resource plugin module is web-resource. It supports the following attributes:

Name

Description

key

The only mandatory attribute. This should be unique within the plugin.

state

This indicates whether the plugin module should be disabled by default or not. The default value enabled. value="disabled" will keep the plugin disabled at startup.

i18n-name-key

The localization key for the human-readable name of the plugin module.

name

The human-readable name of the web resource.

system

This indicates...