how can i track the percentage of completion of an epic in Jira next gen?

[Luca Orciuolo]

Hello,

I would like to know if there's an add-on or else that can help me to track the percentage of completion of an epic (I don't mind about stories and sub tasks).

I would like to manage the progresses of epics and transfer it to excel automatically while keep tracking and working on my project in Jira next gen.

hope you can help me, thank you

[Dieter · Accepted solution]

You can use the REST Api and use requests like http://example.com:8080/jira/rest/api/2.0.alpha1/issue/{issueKey} to get information about issues. I like this since you can prototype your requests rapidly in the browser.

Or you use the SOAP API which takes a little more effort since you first have to create your WSDL. Here is a nice Blog how to use it: http://www.j-tricks.com/1/post/2010/8/jira-soap-client.html

[Dieter]

Ok, i understand your question better now. To speed up the development process, please check this

That way you avoid the annoying Tomcat restart. Works nicely!

[Laszlo Szilagyi]

Thanks a lot! That atlas-cli looks promising. Also the REST API can come in handy if I want to quickly check something.

So it seems what I originally wanted is not doable, namely to connect to the JIRA server from my own standalone app.
Not a big deal, I'm totally fine with these workarounds, just good to know.

Thanks,
LACi

[Mikael Löwenadler]

Check out https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/JCLI/JIRA+Command+Line+Interface

[Laszlo Szilagyi]

Thanks for the quick response, but I think this is not what I'm looking for.

I want to create a java class file with my own main method, where I could use the API to connect to Jira and do some operations. I want to query an issue, check it's fields, maybe acces some custom fields, things like that.

I'm in a development of a custom field type plugin, but at first I want to see how my code works in a basic test app. I don't want to re-run always the atlas-run to see the effect of my code change. It's just too time consuming. Also from a standalon app I could easily debug my code.

For example I want to see the result of a code like this:

// get the Priority
PriorityImpl priority =  (PriorityImpl)issue.getPriorityObject();
String priority = priority.getName();
		
// get the Severity
CustomField severity = ComponentManager.getInstance().getCustomFieldManager().getCustomFieldObject("customfield_10182");

That's the rational behind this question.

Thank you

[Laszlo Szilagyi]

It seems I would need to connect to a JIRA server again from a standalone application through the API.
Is this possible? Could someone please confirm this?

I want to play around with the JQL API to see how it works. I don't want to install any plugin to at this point I just want to test the API functions with real data.

What should I do?

Example code:

ParseResult pr = searchService.parseQuery(userUtil.getUserObject(adminUserName), "\"Project Team\" = \"wpo\" and issuetype = Bug");
Query query = pr.getQuery();
SearchResults searchResults;
Collection issues = new ArrayList();
try
{
	searchResults = searchService.search(userUtil.getUserObject(adminUserName), query, PagerFilter.getUnlimitedFilter());
	issues = searchResults.getIssues();
}
catch (SearchException e)
{
	// TODO Auto-generated catch block
	e.printStackTrace();
}

Thanks,
LACi