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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

Creating subtasks on an issue


In this recipe, we will demonstrate how to create a subtask from a JIRA plugin. It is very similar to issue creation, but there are some notable differences.

Subtasks are useful for splitting up a parent issue into a number of tasks, which can be assigned and tracked separately. The progress on an issue is generally a sum of progress on all its subtasks, although people use it for a lot of other purposes too.

How to do it...

There are two steps in creating a subtask:

  1. Create an issue object. A subtask object is nothing but an issue object in the backend. The only difference is that it has a parent issue associated with it. So, when we create a subtask issue object, we will have to define the parent issue in addition to what we normally do while creating a normal issue.

  2. Link the newly-created subtask issue to the parent issue.

Let's see the steps in more detail:

  1. Create the subtask issue object similar to how we created the issue in the previous recipe. Here, the IssueInputParameters...