External Web Service Client in JIRA

[Bahar Çağlar]

Hi,

I wrote a web service client in java for an external web service, and I want to run it in my jira.

It will work in a workflow step. I mean I need to get some data from JIRA, then I will send them to a web service (server) using web service client.

How can I do this? With writing a plugin, listener or anything else.

I am confused about that.

Thanks for your answers

[Tim B · Accepted solution]

Well you can use a listener for that. Check what kind of issue event it is. We use generic events for a transition. Check whether the issue's new status equals the one you want to do the webservice for and act accordingly.

Note that I have experienced difficulties accessing webservices from inside JIRA plugins. JAR & OSGi hell are both present. I have used SOAP succesfully with commons http, auto generated code from WSDL hasn't worked for me yet.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Since it is workflow related, my suggestion would be develop a post function. Also have a look at the new JIRA webhooks because these are pretty good to invoke external services.

[Renjith Pillai]

+1 for Webhooks.