How to access JIRA issue data from Confluence via User Macro velocity script?

Chris Rocco

I have recently started wrting user macros. They are cool and powerful. I am really looking forward to further customizing my confluence site. Here is what I am trying to do and am looking for some help:

I want to write a marco to very similar to the JIRA issue macro, but with a twist. I want to:

1. Allow a user to drop the macro on a page
2. Click edit macro
3. enter a JIRA URL for a list of issues (e.g. XML)
4. I want my new macro to:
   1. Have access to the jira issues
   2. And be able to act on them in my velocity script - e.g. count the number of issues, access the values in certain fields, etc.

I am not sure how to do everything in 4 above. Can I read the XML into an array? Can I loop through the data in the XML and parse it?

Can I view the source code on the JIRA issue macro and start from there?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

francis

Did you consider the SQL plugin for confluence. It allows you to query the jira db directly, not really the jira issues macro but a valid alternative imo.