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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

Writing a simple custom field


In this recipe, we will see how to write a new custom field type. Once created, we can create a number of custom fields of this type on our JIRA instance that can then be used to capture information on the issues.

New custom field types are created with the help of the customfield-type module. The following are the key attributes and elements supported:

Attributes:

Name

Description

key

This should be unique within the plugin.

class

This must implement the com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.CustomFieldType interface.

i18n-name-key

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

name

Human-readable name of the web resource.

Elements:

Name

Description

description

Description of the custom field type.

resource type="velocity"

Velocity templates for the custom field views.

Valid-searcher

From JIRA 5.2, you can define searcher in the custom-field definition itself. Most useful when we have a new custom field type that wants...