Practical JIRA Plugins
Using JIRA Effectively: Custom Development
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Release Date: July 2011
Pages: 112
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One advantage of using JIRA for issue tracking, bug tracking, or project management is the ability to extend this tool with hundreds of plugins from the JIRA community. In this concise book, software toolsmith Matt Doar—the author of Practical JIRA Administration—shows you how to create and maintain your own JIRA plugins to meet the specific needs of a project.
This book uses detailed examples to clarify some of the more confusing aspects of JIRA plugins, and serves as an ideal supplement to the extensive documentation already available.
- Use JIRA’s Plugin SDK, and learn several aspects common to all plugins
- Create your own custom field type, using a JIRA plugin
- Delve into advanced aspects of custom field plugins, and discover how searching for values in custom fields works
- Create JIRA plugins to use with workflows, and learn about conditions, validators, and post-functions
- Store data using the PropertySet interface and the Active Objects plugin
- Upgrade a plugin and upload it to Atlassian Plugin Exchange (PAC)
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1 Plugin Basics
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Overview
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Creating a JIRA Plugin
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Reading a Plugin
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Building and Deploying a Plugin
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What Can JIRA Plugins Do?
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Which Methods Should My Plugin Use?
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Troubleshooting a Build
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Logging
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Apache Velocity
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Maven
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Further Reading
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Chapter 2 Custom Field Types
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Overview
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A New Custom Field Type
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Generating an Empty Plugin
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Adding a customfield-type to atlassian-plugin.xml
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Creating the CustomFieldType Class
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Adding Velocity Template Files
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Troubleshooting the Plugin
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Extending the Plugin
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Summary
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Further Reading
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Chapter 3 Advanced Custom Field Types
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Overview
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Adding Configuration to a Custom Field
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Fields with Multiple Values
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Read-only and Calculated Fields
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WebWork
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Other Examples of Custom Field Types
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Chapter 4 Custom Field Searchers
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Overview
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How Searchers Work
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Searchers and atlassian-plugin.xml
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A Simple Searcher
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Troubleshooting Searchers
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More Complex Searchers
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Statistical Searchers
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Further Reading
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Chapter 5 Workflow Customizations
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Overview
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Conditions
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Configurable Conditions
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Validators
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Configurable Validators
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Post-Functions
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Configurable Post-Functions
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Further Reading
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Chapter 6 Storing Data with Your Plugin
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Overview
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Storing Data with PropertySet
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Storing Data with Active Objects
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Further Reading
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Chapter 7 Publishing Your Plugin
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Overview
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Atlassian Marketplace
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SPAC (studio.plugins.atlassian.com)
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bitbucket
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Upgrading a Plugin to a New Version of JIRA
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Updating a Plugin Version at the Marketplace
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Further Reading
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Chapter 8 Further Plugin Information
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Overview
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JIRA Plugins—Beyond the .jar file
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Internationalization
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Plugin Security
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Version One, Version Two and Version Three Plugins
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JIRA Development Mode
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Using a Debugger with JIRA
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Further Reading
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