Jira and Mecurial

[Mike Agee]

I would like to verify the existence of a JIRA issue from a Mercurial hook that is run during the commit process. Is this possible?

[Bhushan Nagaraj · Accepted solution]

Yes Mike. I am guessing you are writing your pre-commit hooks in python right? Make a rest call to JIRA api to check if the issue exists.

[Mike Agee]

Thanks Bhushan, that was what I thought. I was able to use the 'requests' python module successfully for doing this in a hook on a linux box, but have had nothing but unbelieveable struggle on a Windows 8 box trying to emulate for local repos. I have a suspicion that most examples for python/jira/restful api are in the non-windows domain, which again works without struggle. Not being a python programmer and not totally understanding how to add what I think are called extensions (i.e. the requests module) to the python process used by mercurial is where things fall apart for me.

[Ferenc Kiss [Midori]]

Commit Policy Plugin provides this function, and lots of other checks, for Mercurial commits.

See the add-on documentation, especially its Mercurial page.