nav[aria-label="Primary Navigation"] { padding: 0; & ul { list-style: none; width: 100%; display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: start; align-items: start; gap: 30px; padding: 0; & li { margin: 0; } & ul li { list-style: none; } } }

playing with database through projectTabPanel plugin

alexis12

Hi everyone,

I'm actually developping an extension for Jira.

I created a projectTabPanel plugin because I needed to call my plugin from this emplacement. My plugin also created a new table in activeObjects and I want to interact with it.

No problem with that, I did some tests and it worked perfectly well.

My problem is that my projectTabPanel call my velocity template and this template have a form with data that I want to save in my new table.
Here's my question : how to send those data from this page ? Which java class will that call ?

Thanks a lot for your help and sorry for my english^^

Accepted answers

Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]

Create a webwork action class and invoke it from the form. You can then persist the data in the action class.

See https://developer.atlassian.com/jiradev/jira-architecture/jira-technical-overview/jira-webwork-actions

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Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]

Create a webwork action class and invoke it from the form. You can then persist the data in the action class.

See https://developer.atlassian.com/jiradev/jira-architecture/jira-technical-overview/jira-webwork-actions

alexis12

Hi Jobin,

Thanks for your answer.

Following your advices I read the documentation and created a WebWork plugin which I linked to a template and a Javascript function. JIRA compile well, unfortunatly the WebWork plugin doesn't work.

Here's my code :

release-plugin.vm

&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
     #include("js/jira-version-plugin.js")
&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;h1&gt; Release notes of version : &lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;select name="select"&gt;
  &lt;option value=""&gt;&lt;/option&gt; 
    #foreach($version in $versions)
        #if ( $version == $selected )
            &lt;option value="$version" selected&gt;$version&lt;/option&gt; 
        #else
            &lt;option value="$version"&gt;$version&lt;/option&gt; 
        #end
    #end
&lt;/select&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;textarea rows="40" cols="100"&gt;$description2 , $QueryString, $contextKey, $url, $contextKey&lt;/textarea&gt; 
 &lt;button onclick="test()"&gt;ok &lt;/button&gt;

atlassian-plugin.xml

&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;

&lt;atlassian-plugin key="${project.groupId}.${project.artifactId}" name="${project.name}" plugins-version="2"&gt;
  &lt;plugin-info&gt;
    &lt;description&gt;${project.description}&lt;/description&gt;
    &lt;version&gt;${project.version}&lt;/version&gt;
    &lt;vendor name="${project.organization.name}" url="${project.organization.url}"/&gt;
    &lt;param name="plugin-icon"&gt;images/pluginIcon.png&lt;/param&gt;
    &lt;param name="plugin-logo"&gt;images/pluginLogo.png&lt;/param&gt;
  &lt;/plugin-info&gt;
  &lt;!-- add our i18n resource --&gt;
  &lt;resource type="i18n" name="i18n" location="jira-version-plugin"/&gt;
  &lt;!-- add our web resources --&gt;
  &lt;web-resource key="jira-version-plugin-resources" name="jira-version-plugin Web Resources"&gt;
    &lt;dependency&gt;com.atlassian.auiplugin:ajs&lt;/dependency&gt;
    &lt;resource type="download" name="jira-version-plugin.css" location="/css/jira-version-plugin.css"/&gt;
    &lt;resource type="download" name="jira-version-plugin.js" location="/js/jira-version-plugin.js"/&gt;
    &lt;resource type="download" name="images/" location="/images"/&gt;
    &lt;context&gt;jira-version-plugin&lt;/context&gt;
  &lt;/web-resource&gt;
  &lt;!-- publish our component --&gt;
  &lt;component key="myPluginComponent" class="com.test.MyPluginComponentImpl" public="true"&gt;
    &lt;interface&gt;com.test.MyPluginComponent&lt;/interface&gt;
  &lt;/component&gt;
  &lt;!-- import from the product container --&gt;
  &lt;component-import key="applicationProperties" interface="com.atlassian.sal.api.ApplicationProperties"/&gt;
  &lt;project-tabpanel key="release-plugin" name="Release Plugin" i18n-name-key="release-plugin.name" class="com.test.jira.tabpanels.ReleasePlugin"&gt;
    &lt;description key="release-plugin.description"&gt;The Release Plugin Plugin&lt;/description&gt;
    &lt;label key="release-plugin.label"/&gt;
    &lt;order&gt;10&lt;/order&gt;
    &lt;resource type="velocity" name="view" location="templates/tabpanels/release-plugin.vm"/&gt;
    &lt;web-resource key="ajax-actions"&gt;
      &lt;resource type="download" name="jira-version-plugin.js" location="js/jira-version-plugin.js"/&gt;
      &lt;context&gt;com.test.jira.tabpanels&lt;/context&gt;
    &lt;/web-resource&gt;
  &lt;/project-tabpanel&gt;
  &lt;ao key="ao-module"&gt;
    &lt;description&gt;The module configuring the Active Objects service used by this plugin&lt;/description&gt;
    &lt;entity&gt;com.test.jira.ao.releaseplugin.ReleaseNotes&lt;/entity&gt;
  &lt;/ao&gt;
  &lt;component-import key="ao" name="Active Objects service" interface="com.atlassian.activeobjects.external.ActiveObjects"&gt;
    &lt;description&gt;Component to access Active Objects functionality from the plugin&lt;/description&gt;
  &lt;/component-import&gt;
  
  
  
  
  &lt;webwork1 key="SaveEntity" name="SaveEntity" i18n-name-key="SaveEntity.name"&gt;
    &lt;description key="SaveEntity.description"&gt;The SaveEntity Plugin&lt;/description&gt;
    &lt;actions&gt;
      &lt;action name="com.test.jira.tabpanels.SaveEntity" alias="SaveEntity"&gt;
        &lt;view name="success"&gt;templates/tabpanels/release-plugin.vm&lt;/view&gt;
        
           &lt;command name="test" alias="SaveEntityOne"&gt;
            &lt;view name="success"&gt;templates/tabpanels/release-plugin.vm&lt;/view&gt;
        &lt;/command&gt;
        
      &lt;/action&gt;
    &lt;/actions&gt;
  &lt;/webwork1&gt;

  
&lt;/atlassian-plugin&gt;

SaveEntity.java

package main.java.com.test.jira.tabpanels;

import java.util.*;

import com.atlassian.activeobjects.external.ActiveObjects;
import com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager;
import com.atlassian.jira.ofbiz.OfBizDelegator;
import com.atlassian.jira.project.Project;
import com.atlassian.jira.project.browse.BrowseContext;
import com.atlassian.jira.project.version.Version;
import com.atlassian.jira.web.action.JiraWebActionSupport;
import com.atlassian.query.Query;

public class SaveEntity extends JiraWebActionSupport {

    protected String doExecute() throws Exception {
        System.out.println("TEST SUCCEED");
        return SUCCESS;
    }

    protected String doTest() throws Exception {
        System.out.println("TEST SUCCEED2");
        return SUCCESS;

    }

}

jira-version-plugin.js

function test() {
    alert("!!!!!!!hello world!!!!!!!!");
    window.location = "/SaveEntity!test"
}

When I load my template page doExecute isn't called. When I click on the javascript button I got the alert "hello world" but it does redirect me on a white page and not the same template as expected...
I have no idea why and no errors in the logs
Thanks again for your help !

Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]

This is not how you do things in webwork. But it is a lot to teach in a forum For starters, you are redirecting to "/SaveEntity!test" which is wrong. It should be "JIRA_BASE_URL/secure/SaveEntity!test.jspa". You should also do it in a form action instead of redirecting from java script.

alexis12

Once again you gave me the solution, a great thanks for that !

Nevertheless, I've got some others problem, here's the situation :

From the view of my projectTabPanelPlugin I submit a form to a class of a WebWork plugin.
I can do most of the stuff I wanted to do inside the class but here's not actually the problem.

When this class return the "success" statement I want to go back to the view of my projectTabPanel and it works, the problem is that my left side column menu disapeared, how to get it back ?

My other worry is this : in my view I got a textarea and I want to fill it with the result of some treatment I did in the class of my WebWork plugin. I know how to display variables in the view but I have no idea how to send those variables from my WebWork class

Thanks for your help

EDIT : I just found how to display parameters in my view, thanks to ${action.myMethod()} !