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JIRA Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Jobin Kuruvilla
Book Image

JIRA Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Jobin Kuruvilla

Overview of this book

JIRA provides issue and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development. With the new version of JIRA, you can create your own JIRA plugins and customize the look and feel of your JIRA UI easier than ever. JIRA Development Cookbook , Third Edition, is a one-stop resource to master extensions and customizations in JIRA. This book starts with recipes about simplifying the plugin development process followed by recipes dedicated to the plugin framework. Then, you will move on to writing custom field plugins to create new field types or custom searchers. You will also learn how to program and customize workflows to transform JIRA into a user-friendly system. With so much data spanning different projects, issues, and so on, we will cover how to work on reports and gadgets to get customized data according to our needs. At the end of the book, you will learn how to customize JIRA by adding new tabs, menus, and web items; communicate with JIRA via the REST APIs; and work with the JIRA database.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
JIRA Development Cookbook Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Converting plugins from V1 to V2


If you are upgrading a plugin from JIRA 3.13.x or earlier versions, one of the important differences is the introduction of v2 plugins. While designing the upgrade to the new JIRA version, it makes perfect sense to sometimes migrate the plugins from v1 to v2, although it is not a mandatory step. In this recipe, we will see how to convert a version1 plugin to a version2 plugin.

Getting ready

There are a couple of questions we need to ask before the plugin is converted:

  • Are all the packages used by the plugin available to OSGi plugins?

    This is very important because JIRA doesn't expose all the packages to OSGi plugins. The list of packages exported and made available to the plugins2 framework can be found in the com.atlassian.jira.plugin.DefaultPackageScannerConfiguration class.

  • Are all the components used by the plugin available to OSGi plugins?

    Similar to the previous question, we need to make sure the components are also exposed to the OSGi plugins.Unfortunately...