JIRA plug-in development- Scheduled task reference methods

[Prameesha Samarakoon]

Hi,

I've written a scheduled task to run on JIRA version 6.0.6(following the tutorial in the JIRA cookbook). It says to add your jar file to "WEB-INF/lib" folders and reference it in "WEB-INF/classes/schduler-config.xml " in the following manner.

<job name="ATask" class="com.a.b.APluginPackage.ScheduledTask" />

This method works fine.

What I would like to know is, if there is a way of adding the jar file to a different location, like "/jira_home/plugins/installed-plugins" location (ideally upload the jar as a plug-in and reference it in the scheduler-config.xml )and reference this from the scheduled task in the following way.

<job name="ATask" class="<full path to installed directory>com.a.b.APluginPackage.ScheduledTask" />

I've tried this method but it does not seem to work and throws the errors at startup.

/jira_home/plugins/installed-plugins/com.a.b.APluginPackage.ScheduledTask
2014-01-06 12:11:17,378 localhost-startStop-1 FATAL      [atlassian.jira.scheduler.JiraSchedulerLauncher] A RuntimeException occurred during JiraSchedulerLauncher servlet context initialisation - null.
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.atlassian.scheduler.SchedulerUtil.initializeAndStart(SchedulerUtil.java:28)
        at com.atlassian.jira.scheduler.JiraSchedulerLauncher.proceedIfAllClear(JiraSchedulerLauncher.java:60)
        at com.atlassian.jira.scheduler.JiraSchedulerLauncher.start(JiraSchedulerLauncher.java:27)

Is it possible to use this method or is it mandotory for the jar file to be in the WEB-INF/lib folder?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[Daniel Wester · Accepted solution]

WEB-INF plugins are generally plugins v1 plugins and upm plugins are v2. https://developer.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/Differences+between+Plugins1+and+Plugins2has more details

[Prameesha Samarakoon]

So can a V2 plug-in be referenced from a scheduled task, and if so how should it be referenced?

Thank you very much for your prompt response.