How do I specify two versions of an add on in "Manage add ons"

[Marketing Quantum]

I had to create two separate jars for a single add on. One that supports Jira 5 and the other for Jira 4. How do I specify which one to be used for each version?

This is an add on that is downloaded and installed in the marketplace, so how do I get users to download the appropriate one?

And how do I include both jars?

Version 5 uses some things not available in 4 so they need to be separate jars.

Thoughts?

[JohnA · Accepted solution]

You can publish two separate versions and set their product compatibility appropriately. The UPM will automatically download the correct version based on the compatibility you specify.

From the Marketplace website, users can use the Version History tab to download the appropriate version based on their application.

[elibishop]

These will have to be two different version numbers as far as Marketplace is concerned. A convention I've seen some vendors use is to set the version strings to, for instance, "1.0-jira4" and "1.0-jira5". You can set the build numbers to whatever you want (keeping in mind that the build numbers determine the overall ordering of versions), but they must be different from each other.

Specifying the compatibility is pretty straightforward, since you already get to do this for each plugin version. For the one that only works with JIRA 4, just set the minimum version to 4.0 and the maximum to 4.4.5 (the current latest 4.x version)*; for the JIRA 5 one, set the minimum to 5.0 and the maximum to 5.2.7. Users who are installing the plugin from within the product (via the plugin manager a.k.a. Find New Add-ons) will automatically get the right one, since the plugin manager filters out everything that's not compatible with the product you have. Users who are downloading it from the Marketplace website will still have to pick one or the other, but it's easy to see the JIRA version compatibility range in the plugin version history list.

* Note that if we release a new micro version (4.4.6), we'll update your compatibility automatically, but we don't do that if it's a new minor version (4.5).

[Marketing Quantum]

Great! Thanks