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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

Conditions on issue operations


When new operations are created, it is often a requirement to hide them or show them, based on the permissions or state of the issue or something else. JIRA allows conditions to be added while defining the web items, and when the conditions are not satisfied, the web item won't show up!

In this recipe, we will lock down the new issue operation we created in the previous recipe to Project Administrators exclusively.

Getting ready...

Create the Manage Project issue operation, as explained in the previous recipe.

How to do it...

Following are the steps to add a new condition to an issue operation's web item:

  1. Create the condition class. The class should implement the com.atlassian.plugin.web.Condition interface, but it is recommended to extend com.atlassian.jira.plugin.webfragment.conditions.AbstractIssueCondition when creating an issue condition.

    While extending AbstractIssueCondition, we will have to implement the shouldDisplay method, as shown here:

    public class AdminCondition...