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JIRA Development Cookbook

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JIRA 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.This book is your one-stop resource to master JIRA extension and customization. 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.The book 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, etc and a lot of project planning done on it, 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. Then the book steers towards programming Issues, i.e. creating/editing/deleting issues, creating new issue operations, managing the various other operations available on issues via the JIRA APIs etc. In the latter half of the book, 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 Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Writing listeners in JIRA


Listeners are very powerful features in JIRA. JIRA has a mechanism of throwing events whenever something happens on an issue, such as when creating an issue, updating an issue, progressing on the workflows, or in similar events. Using listeners, we can capture these events and do special things based on our requirements.

There are two different ways using which listeners can be implemented in JIRA. The old way of doing it is to extend the AbstractIssueEventListener class which in turn implements the IssueEventListener interface. The AbstractIssueEventListener class captures the event, identifies its type, and delegates the event to the appropriate method where it is handled. To write a new listener, all we need to do is to extend the AbstractIssueEventListener class and override the methods of interest!

The new way of doing it is to use the atlassian-event library. Here, we register the listener in the plugin descriptor and implement the listener with the help of...