1. Implementing a custom JIRA UI using plugins 2.0 Andreas Knecht Plugins 2 & REST

2. Overview How to implement a custom UI How to implement a REST resource Demo svn co https://labs.atlassian.com/svn/IPHONE/trunk https://labs.atlassian.com/svn/IPHONE/trunk Excellent resource - This is a great app, not just because it looks good. It's also a great resource for JIRA 4.0 REST plugin development. Matt Doar (PAC - 2 Dec 09) Excellent resource - This is a great app, not just because it looks good. It's also a great resource for JIRA 4.0 REST plugin development. Matt Doar (PAC - 2 Dec 09) ““ ””

3. Custom UI Why? Building Blocks o Servlet Filters o Webwork actions o HTML/JS + REST

4. This is not a talk about REST!

5. JIRA Web-Interface for the iPhone Easy to use interface on the iPhone Plugins 2 plugin Most of the work done client-side Custom REST interface

6. Plugin structure

7. Some stats 2000+ downloads since November 09 ~7000 LOC 20 20% days to develop 8 features

8. Custom UI - Filters Redirect certain users Inject content into pages

9. Custom UI - Define a Filter URL-Pattern Location o after-encoding, before-login, before-decoration, before-dispatch

10. Custom UI - Webwork Full MVC UI framework Views, Commands, Validation, Templating /secure/* is not secure roles-required=”admin” does not work /secure/* is not secure roles-required=”admin” does not work

11. Securing Webwork http://localhost:2990/jira/OrderForm!default.jspahttp://localhost:2990/jira/OrderForm!default.jspa?id=10001 http://localhost:2990/jira/OrderForm.jspa?id=100011

12. REST Simple for small data What about 100000 issues? vs

13. Expands to the Rescue.../rest/iphone/1.0/filter/10000.json

14. Expands to the Rescue.../rest/iphone/1.0/filter/10000.json.../rest/iphone/1.0/filter/10000.json?expand=result[1:2]

15. Expands to the Rescue.../rest/iphone/1.0/filter/10000.json.../rest/iphone/1.0/filter/10000.json?expand=result[1:2]

16. Expands to the Rescue.../rest/iphone/1.0/filter/10000.json?expand=result[1:2].issue.details

17. Expands to the Rescue.../rest/iphone/1.0/filter/10000.json?expand=result[1:2].issue.details

18. Expands to the Rescue.../rest/iphone/1.0/filter/10000.json?expand=result[1:2].issue.details.comments[1]

19. Expands to the Rescue.../rest/iphone/1.0/filter/10000.json?expand=result[1:2].issue.details.comments[1]

20. How do expands work? Lists vs Objects

21. How to expand lists

22. How to expand objects

23. REST provides com.atlassian.plugins.rest.common.expand.EntityExpanders...

24. REST Backend doesn’t always support expands Tricky to implement expands #protip: Use services

25. Services keep you safe!

26. Demo Implement ‘Add Comment’ feature Requires some client side JS Server side REST resource Tools

27. Summary Use HTML/JS as much as possible o Faster development turnaround o Good frameworks (jQuery, GWT, jQTouch...) If our REST API doesn’t do it for you...

28. Questions https://labs.atlassian.com/browse/IPHONE