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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

Writing a Java client for the REST API


In this recipe, we will quickly see how we can create a Java client to communicate with JIRA using the REST APIs.

Getting ready

Make sure that the Accept remote API Calls option is turned ON in JIRA under Administration | System | General Configuration.

How to do it...

In order to connect to JIRA using REST APIs, Atlassian has developed a JIRA REST Java client library called JRJC in short. It provides a thin layer of abstraction on top of the REST API and related HTTP(S) communication, and gives a domain object model to represent JIRA entities, such as issues, priorities, resolutions, statuses, users, and so on. The REST API and the JRJC library are quickly evolving, with new methods added in every version! The status of the library can be viewed at https://ecosystem.atlassian.net/wiki/display/JRJC/Home.

We will be using JRJC to connect to our JIRA instance using the standalone Java program. We can do this by carrying out the following steps:

  1. Create a Maven...