JIRA development cookbook : your one-stop resource for mastering extensions and customizations in JIRA 7+ / Jobin Kuruvilla.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kuruvilla, Jobin, author.

Series:

Quick answers to common problems.

Quick answers to common problems

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

JIRA (Computer file).

Java (Computer program language).

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (588 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Your one-stop resource for mastering extensions and customizations in JIRA 7+ About This Book Explore the new features of JIRA 7 and best practices for agile development and integration with development tools Customize the look and feel of your JIRA UI to match your specific user needs Create seamless reports that make sense of your data through easy-to-use techniques Who This Book Is For If you are a JIRA developer or administrator, or a project manager who wants to fully exploit the exciting capabilities of JIRA, then this is the perfect book for you. What You Will Learn Create and deploy your own JIRA plugins Manipulate workflows to transform JIRA into a user-friendly system Create custom reports that show statistics for particular people, projects, versions, or other fields within issues Simplify reporting by writing your own JIRA gadgets, which can be added into a user's dashboard Master database handling by extending and retrieving custom field details from the database Deal with custom fields on an issue and program custom field option In Detail 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. Style and approach 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 sear...

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Plugin Development Process

Introduction

What is a JIRA add-on?

The plugin development process

Atlassian Marketplace

Troubleshooting

Setting up the development environment

Getting ready

How to do it…

There's more…

Proxy settings for Maven

Using local Maven

Configuring IDEs to use the SDK

Creating a skeleton plugin

How it works…

One step to your skeleton plugin

Creating an Eclipse project

Adding plugin modules

Deploying a JIRA plugin

Using a specific version of JIRA

Reusing the data in each run

Making changes and redeploying a plugin

Debugging in Eclipse

See also

Using FastDev for plugin development

Adding ignored files

Changing admin credentials

Testing and debugging

Using custom data for integration/functional Tests

Testing against different version of JIRA/Tomcat

Chapter 2: Understanding the Plugin Framework

JIRA architecture

Third-party components

Webwork

Seraph

Embedded Crowd

PropertySet

Active Objects

OSWorkflow

OfBiz Entity Engine

Apache Lucene

Atlassian Gadget JavaScript Framework

Shared Access Layer

Architecture

Authentication and user management

Property management

Presentation

Database

Workflows

Searching

Scheduled jobs

Plugins.

Types of plugin modules

Reporting

Custom fields

Links and tabs

Remote invocation

Actions and components

Other plugin modules

What goes into atlassian-plugin.xml?

Working with the Plugins1 and Plugins2 versions

Development

Installation

JIRA system plugins

Stable and core APIs

Modifying Atlassian bundled plugins

Converting plugins from V1 to V2

Adding resources into plugins

Adding web resources into plugins

Web resource contexts

Turning off batch mode

Building JIRA from source

Making a single class patch

Adding new webwork actions to JIRA

Adding new commands to the action

Form token handling in webwork actions

Providing a token in HTML links

Getting the token programmatically

Opting out of token checking in remote calls

Capturing plugin installation/uninstallation events

Chapter 3: Working with Custom Fields

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.

Getting ready

Customizing the change log value

Migrating from one custom field type to another

Changing the type of a custom field

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

Reloading velocity changes without restart (auto reloading)

Making the custom field project importable

Changing the size of a text area custom field

Chapter 4: Programming Workflows

Writing a workflow condition

Writing a workflow validator

Writing a workflow post function

Editing an active workflow

Modifying workflows in a JIRA database

Permissions based on workflow status

Making an issue editable/non-editable using workflow properties

Including/excluding resolutions for specific transitions

Adding workflow triggers

How it works….

There's more…

User mapping from development tools to JIRA

Internationalization in workflow statuses

Obtaining available workflow actions programmatically

Getting the action ID's given name

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

Chapter 5: Gadgets and Reporting in JIRA

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

Getting ready…

Accessing gadgets outside of JIRA

Chapter 6: The Power of JIRA Searching

Writing a JQL function

Sanitizing JQL functions

How to do it….

How it works…

Adding a search request view

Using Single Issue Views to render search views

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

Creating a filter

Updating a filter

Deleting a filter

Retrieving filters

Sharing a filter

Subscribing to a filter

Chapter 7: Programming Issues

Creating an issue from a plugin

Creating the issue using IssueManager

Creating subtasks on an issue

Updating an issue

Deleting an issue

Adding new issue operations

Conditions on issue operations

Working with attachments

Creating an attachment

Reading attachments on an issue

Deleting an attachment

Time tracking and worklog management

Auto adjusting the remaining estimate

Logging work and retaining the remaining estimate

Logging work with a new remaining estimate.

Logging work and adjusting the remaining estimate by a value.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 28, 2017).

OCLC:

961944584