How do you add JavaScript resources to the JIRA login page?

[David at David Simpson Apps]

JIRA's Web Resource Plugin Module documentation suggests that using the jira.general context "Applies to every page in JIRA"

But this doesn't work for the login page http://localhost:2990/jira/login.jsp

Ideas?

[Dennis Kromhout van der Meer · Accepted solution]

Hello gents, I've tested this by creating two plugins; one for JIRA 4 and one for JIRA 5. In JIRA 4 it works, but in JIRA 5 it does not, sorry about that. Right now there is no solution to include your web-resource on the login.jps page. I used the following to test:

atlassian-plugin.xml

<?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}"/>
  </plugin-info>
  <web-resource name="My Web Resource" i18n-name-key="my-web-resource.name" key="my-web-resource">
    <description key="my-web-resource.description">The My Web Resource Plugin</description>
    <resource name="test.js" type="download" location="/templates/test.js"/>
    <context>atl.general</context>
  </web-resource>
  <resource type="i18n" name="i18n" location="atlassian-plugin"/>
</atlassian-plugin>

/templates/test.js:

alert("hey jira!");

There has been a lot of work done between JIRA 4 and JIRA 5 with the decorators, so this bug probably just sneaked in there. Therefore I raised a bug ticket here: JRA-27960

I recommend to vote on this ticket and watch it to get updates on the progress.

[David at David Simpson Apps]

I think you're right. It's a bug. I've only tried with JIRA 5. If what you've discovered is correct, it'll be worth updating the JIRA Web Resource Plugin Module documentation too.

I'm still going to hang back and wait a couple of days in case anyone has a better suggestion :)

[Dennis Kromhout van der Meer]

I found out how you can probably fix this for now. You need to add the following to your login.jsp, above any of the html document:

<%@ page import="com.atlassian.plugin.webresource.WebResourceManager" %>
<%
    WebResourceManager webResourceManager = ComponentManager.getComponent(WebResourceManager.class);
    webResourceManager.requireResourcesForContext("atl.general");
    webResourceManager.requireResourcesForContext("jira.general");
%>

[Dennis Kromhout van der Meer]

Hi David, is there anything else you need for this question?

[David at David Simpson Apps]

Yes. It would be really cool if that bug was fixed ;) In the meantime, I suppose I might mark your answer as correct.

[Radu Dumitriu]

The dirty hack, which has the advantage to work for creating new pages as well:

1) Place your modified login.jsp as a resource in the plugin

2) On the plugin boot (osgi starup hook), check if the login is the one you have packed in your plugin; if not, copy the login.jsp over it (rename it prior to that)

3) Ha ha !

[Radu Dumitriu]

of course, a more nice stuff would be to patch the existing, but you will have to define insertion points ... anyway, that's the general idea.

[David at David Simpson Apps]

Nice plan, but <sob>I just want it to work properly</sob>

[RambanamP]

i hope it will help!

ttp://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAKB/How+to+Customise+the+Login+Gadget

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/39386/how-can-i-add-a-new-hyperlink-to-the-jira-login-form

[David at David Simpson Apps]

Sure. Thanks. The gadget is not really an issue, but the login page is completely separate.

I'm talking about this page: https://jira.atlassian.com/login.jsp

[Mizan]

I guess javascript is restricted on login.jsp , its a guess :)

you can even have a look at atlassian-jira/includes/loginform.jsp for a better idea

[David at David Simpson Apps]

@Matt Doar suggests using a jira-footer module - it's seemingly an undocumented module type, but example syntax is available in system-footer-plugin.xml:

<atlassian-plugin name='JIRA Footer' key='jira.footer' i18n-name-key="footer.plugin.name">
    <plugin-info>
        <description key="footer.plugin.desc">This plugin renders the content of the footer in JIRA.</description>
        <vendor name="Atlassian" url="http://www.atlassian.com"/>
        <application-version min="3.12" max="4.3"/>
        <version>1.0</version>
    </plugin-info>

    <jira-footer key="standard-footer" i18n-name-key="footer.plugin.standard.name" name="Standard Footer"
            class="com.atlassian.jira.plugin.navigation.DefaultPluggableFooter">
        <resource type="velocity" name="view" location="templates/plugins/footer/footer.vm"/>
        <order>10</order>
    </jira-footer>
</atlassian-plugin>

...I wonder whether this works with JIRA 5.x

[Viðar Svansson]

I think I answered this already but I can't find it.

Last time I checked then there is no context defined on the login page. Not even atl.general/jira.general.

[RambanamP]

if your using jira 5.0 add ur javascrip in

JIRA.bind(JIRA.Events.NEW_CONTENT_ADDED, function (e,context) {		
ur javascript here.....
}):

and include as webresource.

if ur using old version try with page load or document .ready

[David at David Simpson Apps]

But how do you get the web resource to appear on the login page?

[David at David Simpson Apps]

See also:
JIRA webresource context for login screen

[David at David Simpson Apps]

It would be really cool if this was documented somewhere :)