How to override a public function of com.atlassian.jira.web.action.admin.customfields.EditCustomFieldOptions in a JIRA customField plugin

Question

The isCascadingSelect() public function in  com.atlassian.jira.web.action.admin.customfields.EditCustomFieldOptions is checking a custom field type is an instance of CascadingSelectCFType  (a native JIRA custom field type).

I am writing a custom Field that does not ( and cannot) extend CascadingSelectCFType but is extremely similar ( it's a multi cascading select instead of simple cascading select) - as such, i'd like to re-define the isCascadingSelect function to check for either CascadingSelectCFType or MultipleCascadingSelectCFType - is that possible?

If not, what would be the best approach?

Kepio · Accepted Answer

I figured out the approach by browsing the source code of https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/svn/JDVP/tags/database-values-plugin-1.3/ The atlassian-plugin.xml definition pretty much gives the answer : Configuration for the Multiple Options Cascading Select Field Field. /secure/admin/views/customfields/editcustomfieldoptions.jsp /secure/admin/views/customfields/editcustomfieldoptions.jsp /secure/admin/views/customfields/deletecustomfieldoption.jsp /secure/admin/views/customfields/editcustomfieldoptions.jsp /secure/admin/views/customfields/editcustomfieldoptions.jsp From there- you can: * modify the jsp file EditMultiCascadingCustomFieldOptions extends EditCustomFieldOptions and overwrite my public function * modify the templates directly if need be - in my case, I re-used the native ones