How do I display a "success" pop up message as a result of a Webwork Action?

[Alessandro]

Good morning,

I'm developing a small Jira plugin and I have created a simple Webwork Action (extending JiraWebActionSupport) that takes some data from an input form, makes some business logic and returns a result (success or failure).

Instead of returning a new page (like success.vm, for instance), I would like to just show a pop up message (like these) with a custom text.

I've tried to use the JiraWebActionSupport's methods addMessageToResponse and returnMsgToUser, but the resulting page shows no messages.

Am I doing something wrong? Should I maybe add some Javascript or HTML to the resulting page template to show the message?

[DH]

In your plugin javascript, giddy up on this:

JIRA.Messages.showSuccessMsg('Returned Success',{closeable: true, timeout: 10});

more verbose:

function updateConfig() {
    $.ajax({
        url: url,
        type: "PUT",
        contentType: "application/json",
        data: JSON.stringify({ key: $("#key").val() }),
        processData: false
    }).success(function(data, textStatus, jqXHR) {
        JIRA.Messages.showSuccessMsg('Returned Success',{closeable: true, timeout: 10});
    });

It will display the Jira message at the top of the page - like you've seen before - and then remove the message after 10 seconds.