How to make Java Classes in Jira Plugin accessible to custom .JSP Pages

EthanML

Hi there,

I'm working on bringing forward our custom Jira plugin forward to Jira 5.2.2 from Jira 4.1.2 .

The plugin just adds some links to the nav bar that point to some custom .jsp pages we've written, which are found in Jira's root.

I've updated all the API usage such as OSUser etc to meet new Jira standards, however I'm running in to an issue with the new version-2 type plugins - my jsp pages can't seem to access the Java classes contained in the plugin. Error given is "Only a type can be imported. com.blah.ClassX resolves to a package".

In the old version-1 plugin the plugin .jar was placed under WEB-INF/lib so the pages could access the code without a problem but obviously this is not the case with newer plugins.

I take it there is a way around this? From what I've read I suspect it may involve the use of either "Components" or "Webworks" but I don't know enough about either of these to really know how to get started.

My current atlassian-plugin.xml looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<atlassian-plugin key="${project.groupId}.${project.artifactId}" name="${project.name}" plugins-version="2">
  <plugin-info>
    <description>${project.description}</description>
    <version>${project.version}</version>
    <vendor name="${project.organization.name}" url="${project.organization.url}"/>
    <param name="plugin-icon">images/pluginIcon.png</param>
    <param name="plugin-logo">images/pluginLogo.png</param>
  </plugin-info>
  <!-- add our i18n resource -->
  <resource type="i18n" name="i18n" location="companystabs"/>
  <!-- add our web resources -->
  <web-resource key="companytabs-resources" name="companytabs Web Resources">
    <dependency>com.atlassian.auiplugin:ajs</dependency>
    <resource type="download" name="companytabs.css" location="/css/companytabs.css"/>
    <resource type="download" name="images/" location="/images"/>
    <context>companytabs</context>
  </web-resource>
  <!-- import from the product container -->
  <component-import key="applicationProperties" interface="com.atlassian.sal.api.ApplicationProperties"/>
  <web-section name="companyTabs" i18n-name-key="company-tabs.name" key="company-tabs" location="companyTabs" weight="1000">
    <description key="company-tabs.description">The company Tabs Web-section</description>
    <label key="company-tabs.label"/>
  </web-section>
  <web-item name="Roadmap" i18n-name-key="roadmap.name" key="roadmap" section="system.top.navigation.bar" weight="1000">
    <description key="roadmap.description">The company Roadmap menu item.</description>
    <label key="roadmap.label"/>
    <link linkId="roadmap-link">/roadmap.jsp</link>
  </web-item>
  <web-item name="Service Packs" i18n-name-key="service-packs.name" key="service-packs" section="system.top.navigation.bar" weight="1000">
    <description key="service-packs.description">The company Service Packs menu item.</description>
    <label key="service-packs.label"/>
    <link linkId="service-packs-link">/supportRoadmap.jsp</link>
  </web-item>
  <web-item name="Research" i18n-name-key="research.name" key="research" section="system.top.navigation.bar" weight="1000">
    <description key="research.description">The company Research menu item.</description>
    <label key="research.label"></label>
    <link linkId="research-link">/researchList.jsp</link>
  </web-item>
</atlassian-plugin>

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Boris Georgiev [Appfire]

Can you provide the source of your jsp. Do you need access to classes from JIRA or your own classes ?

You can just try to implement your jsps as webwork actions using velocity templates or you might be able to just point the action the the jsp without making it velocity file (buy putting it like that - <viewname="createuserissue">/templates/myjspfile.jsp</view> in the atlassian-plugin.xml.)

You can use these resources for reference :

https://developer.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/Webwork+plugin+module

https://bitbucket.org/mdoar/webwork-sample

I suggest that you first try to implement a "Hellow world" page and then try to plug your existing jsp there.