How can I add all the XML for all the jira gadgets to confluence?

[JamieA]

It appears that before I can use a jira gadget in confluence I need to manually add the gadget XML's URL to the confluence external gadgets list? This seems manual and labourious, moreover when you add a plugin with a new gadget to jira you need to remember to add it to confluence.

Am I right in this?

If so, given that there is a trust relationship, could confluence not suck em all out from jira? Or have the gadget browser dynamically request the gadgets from the trusted apps?

EDIT: jira seems to have gadget subscriptions for entirely this purpose, but I can't find something similar in confluence 3.5.7 - is it there?

[Penny Wyatt (On Leave to July 2021) · Accepted solution]

You're right that it should be possible to do, but sadly it looks like Confluence as a gadget subscription client (i.e. automatically sucking JIRA gadgets into Confluence) appears to still be on the Confluence backlog.

It shouldn't be too hard write a quick script to do it manually in the meantime. I apologise in advance for this hideous piece of horrible hackery - it's 2am on a Friday night after D&D, after all :-) Standard disclaimer: This isn't supported by Atlassian, test it against a test server before running it against production, not guaranteed to work against future versions (or at all).

1) Grab this code from Pastie and save it as "Gadgets.groovy":

http://www.pastie.org/private/2fredz425ed49cwjwrfcq

2) Read through the code and make sure I'm trustworthy.

3) Run it against your JIRA server to ensure it's finding all the gadgets:

e.g. groovy Gadgets.groovy https://jira.atlassian.com

3) Then give it your Confluence URL and sysadmin credentials and let it add them for you:

e.g. groovy Gadgets.groovy https://myjirainstance.com http://myconfluenceinstance.com/wiki sysadmin mypassword

If they already exist in the directory it doesn't duplicate them.

Error handling is sketchy but I'm sure you can take it from here.

[JamieA]

Hi Penny,

Can't believe you did that at 2am ;-) And using a URLConnection rather than http-builder or the like is hard-core!

cheers, jamie

[Jeff Kirby]

For what it's worth, on July 7, 2010, I filed an Improvement request at jira.atlassian.com for this. It's https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-20295. Currently it has zero votes. The more votes, the more likely Atlassian is to make it a product feature.

Cheers