Practical JIRA Plugins: Using JIRA Effectively: Custom Development

Copyright......Page 8
Table of Contents......Page 9
What This Book Is About......Page 13
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Using Code Examples......Page 15
How to Contact Us......Page 16
Overview......Page 19
Creating a JIRA Plugin......Page 20
Important Plugin Files......Page 21
Building and Deploying a Plugin......Page 22
What Can JIRA Plugins Do?......Page 23
User Interface......Page 24
Other Plugin Module Types......Page 25
Troubleshooting a Build......Page 26
Logging......Page 27
Apache Velocity......Page 29
Maven......Page 31
Further Reading......Page 32
A New Custom Field Type......Page 33
Generating an Empty Plugin......Page 34
Adding a customfield-type to atlassian-plugin.xml......Page 35
Creating the CustomFieldType Class......Page 36
Adding Velocity Template Files......Page 38
Troubleshooting the Plugin......Page 40
Extending the Plugin......Page 41
Further Reading......Page 42
Adding Configuration to a Custom Field......Page 43
A New FieldConfigItemType......Page 44
Velocity Templates and a WebWork Action......Page 47
Configuration Storage......Page 51
Fields with Multiple Values......Page 52
CustomFieldType Methods......Page 53
Velocity Templates for Multiple Values......Page 55
Read-only and Calculated Fields......Page 58
Other Examples of Custom Field Types......Page 59
Overview......Page 61
How Searchers Work......Page 62
Methods for a Custom Field Searcher......Page 63
Adding Data to the Lucene Index......Page 64
Executing a Search......Page 65
Searchers and atlassian-plugin.xml......Page 66
A Simple Searcher......Page 67
More Complex Searchers......Page 70
Statistical Searchers......Page 73
Further Reading......Page 74
Conditions......Page 77
Configurable Conditions......Page 80
Validators......Page 84
Post-Functions......Page 86
Further Reading......Page 88
Storing Data with PropertySet......Page 91
An Example of Storing Data......Page 93
Further Examples and Resources......Page 94
Storing Data with Active Objects......Page 95
Accessing the Data......Page 97
Further Reading......Page 98
PAC (plugins.atlassian.com)......Page 99
SPAC (studio.plugins.atlassian.com)......Page 100
Upgrading a Plugin to a New Version of JIRA......Page 101
Updating a Plugin Version at PAC......Page 102
Further Reading......Page 103
JIRA Plugins—Beyond the .jar file......Page 105
Internationalization......Page 106
Plugin Security......Page 108
JIRA Development Mode......Page 109
Using a Debugger with JIRA......Page 110
Colophon......Page 111