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JIRA Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Jobin Kuruvilla
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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.

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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
JIRA Development Cookbook Third Edition
JIRA Development Cookbook Third Edition
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Plugin Development Process
Plugin Development Process
Introduction
Setting up the development environment
Creating a skeleton plugin
Adding plugin modules
Deploying a JIRA plugin
Making changes and redeploying a plugin
Using FastDev for plugin development
Testing and debugging
2
Understanding the Plugin Framework
Understanding the Plugin Framework
Introduction
Modifying Atlassian bundled plugins
Converting plugins from V1 to V2
Adding resources into plugins
Adding web resources into plugins
Building JIRA from source
Adding new webwork actions to JIRA
Form token handling in webwork actions
Capturing plugin installation/uninstallation events
3
Working with Custom Fields
Working with Custom Fields
Introduction
Writing a simple custom field
Custom field searchers
Dealing with custom fields on an issue
Programming custom field options
Overriding the validation of custom fields
Customizing the change log value
Migrating from one custom field type to another
Making custom fields sortable
Displaying custom fields on subtask columns
User and date fields
Adding custom fields to notification e-mails
Adding help text for a custom field
Removing the "none" option from a select field
Making the custom field project importable
Changing the size of a text area custom field
4
Programming Workflows
Programming Workflows
Introduction
Writing a workflow condition
Writing a workflow validator
Writing a workflow post function
Editing an active workflow
Permissions based on workflow status
Including/excluding resolutions for specific transitions
Adding workflow triggers
Internationalization in workflow statuses
Obtaining available workflow actions programmatically
Programmatically progressing on workflows
Obtaining workflow history from the database
Reordering workflow actions in JIRA
Creating common transitions in workflows
Creating global transitions in workflows
5
Gadgets and Reporting in JIRA
Gadgets and Reporting in JIRA
Introduction
Writing a JIRA report
Reports in Excel format
Data validation in JIRA reports
Restricting access to reports
Object configurable parameters for reports
Writing JIRA gadgets
Invoking REST services from gadgets
Configuring user preferences in gadgets
Accessing gadgets outside of JIRA
6
The Power of JIRA Searching
The Power of JIRA Searching
Introduction
Writing a JQL function
Sanitizing JQL functions
Adding a search request view
Smart querying using quick search
Searching in plugins
Parsing a JQL query in plugins
Linking directly to search queries
Index and de-index issues programmatically
Searching on issue entity properties
Managing filters programmatically
Subscribing to a filter
7
Programming Issues
Programming Issues
Introduction
Creating an issue from a plugin
Creating subtasks on an issue
Updating an issue
Deleting an issue
Adding new issue operations
Conditions on issue operations
Working with attachments
Time tracking and worklog management
Working with comments on issues
Programming change logs
Programming issue links
JavaScript tricks on issue fields
Creating issues and comments from e-mail
8
Customizing the UI
Customizing the UI
Introduction
Changing the basic look and feel
Adding new web sections in the UI
Adding new web items in the UI
Use of decorators and other metadata tags
Adding conditions for web fragments
Creating new velocity context for web fragments
Adding a new drop-down menu on the top navigation bar
Dynamic creation of web items
Adding new tabs in the View Issue screen
Adding new tabs in the Browse Project screen
Adding new links in the Project-centric view
Adding new panels in the project-centric view
Adding sub-navigation in Project-centric view
Adding issue link renderers
Displaying dynamic notifications/warnings on issues
Re-ordering Issue Operations in the View Issue page
Re-ordering fields in the View Issue page
9
Remote Access to JIRA
Remote Access to JIRA
Introduction
Writing Java client for REST API
Working with issues
Working with attachments
Remote time tracking
Working with comments
Remote user and group management
Progressing an issue in workflow
Searching issues
Managing versions
Managing components
Remote administration methods
Exposing services and data entities as REST APIs
Using the REST API browser
Working with JIRA Webhooks
10
Dealing with the JIRA Database
Dealing with the JIRA Database
Introduction
Extending the JIRA database with a custom schema
Accessing database entities from plugins
Persisting plugin information in the JIRA database
Using Active Objects to store data
Accessing the JIRA configuration properties
Getting a database connection for JDBC calls
Migrating a custom field from one type to another
Retrieving issue information from a database
Retrieving custom field details from a database
Retrieving permissions on issues from a database
Retrieving workflow details from a database
Updating the issue status in a database
Retrieving users and groups from a database
Dealing with change history in a database
11
Useful Recipes
Useful Recipes
Introduction
Writing a service in JIRA
Adding configurable parameters to a service
Writing scheduled tasks in JIRA
Writing listeners in JIRA
Customizing e-mail content
Redirecting to a different page in webwork actions
Adding custom behavior for user details
Deploying a servlet in JIRA
Adding shared parameters to Servlet Context
Writing a Servlet Context Listener
Using filters to intercept queries in JIRA
Adding and importing components in JIRA
Adding new module types to JIRA
Enabling access logs in JIRA
Enabling SQL logging in JIRA
Internationalization in webwork plugins
Sharing common libraries across v2 plugins
Operations using direct HTML links
Implementing Marketplace licensing in plugins

User and date fields

JIRA boasts of a simple, clutterless UI. You will find this theme in the View Issue page, and one of the standout things is the way issue fields are arranged on the page. The fields are grouped based on their type and you will see separate sections for the user and date fields, as shown in the next screenshot:

But how do we define the custom fields that we develop as a date field or a user field?

How to do it...

When you write your new date fields or user fields, all you need to do to make it appear in the correct sections is to implement the right interface!

For a user field, the new custom field type class should implement the following interface:

com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.UserField

For a date field, implement the following:

com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.DateField

If you are extending the existing date fields or user fields, they already implement the interface, and hence they will appear automatically in there!

What if you do not want your field in the special date...

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