Calling plug-in actions from anywhere?

[Kinto Soft]

Hi,

Does it exists a global function similar to the provided by the following method;

com.atlassian.jira.web.action.JiraWebActionSupport.getRedirect(String arg0)

It returns the url for any other action defined in the plugin, but it can only be invoked by an action extending the JiraWebActionSupport class.

I need to call an action from a menu.

Many thanks,

Pablo

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist] · Accepted solution]

You should be able to call it from anywhere using a link like this:

/secure/YouActionName!viewName.jspa

Doesn't that work? For a menu, use a web-item.

[Kinto Soft]

/secure/YouActionName!viewName.jspa

Just what I was looking for!

But it has a little problem: the context of the JIRA application:

1. In production usually: http://localhost/ (empty)
2. In SDK or other times: http://localhost/jira</li<>>

In the first case, it must be invoked: /secure/YourActionName.jspa

Inthe second: /jira/secure/YourActionName.jspa

Is there an API function providing the context? Maybe by analyzing the JIRA base url to get it...

[Florin Manaila]

I believe ActionContext.getResponse().sendRedirect(location) will append the correct contextPath. Haven't tried it though, but the Javadocs seem accurate enough

This method can accept relative URLs; the servlet container must convert the relative URL to an absolute URL before sending the response to the client. If the location is relative without a leading '/' the container interprets it as relative to the current request URI. If the location is relative with a leading '/' the container interprets it as relative to the servlet container root.

[Florin Manaila]

You can also build the url client-side. There should be a

<script type="text/javascript">var contextPath = '';</script>

on every page, with the appropriate value.

[Andy Brook [Plugin People]]

Florin is right, but there is an even easier way, your Action classes (should?) probably subclass JiraWebActionSupport, and so, can call: getRedirect("secure/yourapp/Thing!view.jspa"); so long as your action then returns NULL, you will get redirected, with context set accordingly if present.

[Kinto Soft]

The problem is that the code is not inside an action, it's in a menu builder. Hence, neither

<script type="text/javascript">var contextPath = '';</script>

can be invoked because is a client based solution nor

ActionContext.getResponse().sendRedirect(location)

because I don't want redirect anything. Simply, pass the menu links to JIRA and let it decide when to redirect (due an user action).

I got at my email another suggestion from from Andy Brook (and not listed in answers !?):

JiraWebActionSupport, and so, can call: getRedirect("secure/yourapp/Thing!view.jspa");

but as the code is not within an action... I tried to create an object by:

JireWebActionSupport jwas = new JiraWebActionSupport();
jwas.getRedirect(...);

but it did not work.

Based on a Florin's suggestion I tried to get the context from the servlet:

ActionContext.getRequest().getContextPath();

that would be perfect. Unfortunately, as it's not invoked from within an action, ActionContext.getRequest() returns null :(

Anyway it opens a new way: is it possible to get the HttpServletRequest from ANYWHERE (not only from an action)?

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

If it is from a web-item, you don't need to append context path. If not, where is your code? What kind of plugin module is it?

[Florin Manaila]

Jobin is right. Web-items do not require a context path. So if those aren't web-items, what are they? What is that menu builder you are using? When is it called and what does it do?

[Kinto Soft]

The action is called from a SimpleLinkFactory (implemented by a class) as described in the following link and in the Jobin's book:

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/69412/adding-dynamic-links-to-user-s-top-navigation-bar

The links are built from within that class. If the contextPath is not added (/jira/secure/MyAction.jspa) then the action is not found. When the context path is present, then it works.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

This will get you the full base url.

ComponentAccessor.getApplicationProperties().getString(APKeys.JIRA_BASEURL)

Use ComponentManager is the older JIRA versions.