Bitbucket announcement Banner plugin developement

dharanitharan_selvar · June 18, 2019, 6:00am

Hello,
I am new to Bitbucket plugin development and now I am trying to create an announcement banner plugin for bitbucket, I have created the skeleton of the plugin using this comment “atlas-create-bitbucket-plugin”, can anyone suggest any ideas on where to begin
what kind of plugin module I have to use?
Is there is any tutorial page for this?

Thanks in advance!!!

khughes · June 18, 2019, 6:42am

Hi @dharanitharan_selvar,

Bitbucket Server actually released an announcement banner feature today. Take a look at the release notes for Bitbucket Server 6.4.

In terms of where to begin for writing a plugin, you could take a look at some of our example plugins.

The basics you will likely need are:

An active objects Dao (a class extending com.atlassian.bitbucket.ao.AbstractAoDao) to store the data in the database (see https://developer.atlassian.com/server/framework/atlassian-sdk/getting-started-with-active-objects/ for details)
A service layer for the main logic of your plugin
A REST layer for the frontend to talk to (see https://developer.atlassian.com/server/framework/atlassian-sdk/rest-plugin-module/ for details)
Some frontend stuff (javascript/soy/html/css) to show things on the page. The best way to do this is to use web items and web panels, which are plugin points that you can hook into (see Client Web Fragment Plugin Modules). To see the web panels and web items that are available, add ?web.items&web.panels to the URL of the page you want to display something on (e.g. http://localhost:7990/bitbucket/projects/PROJECT_1/repos/rep_1/browse?web.items&web.panels).

Hope this helps!

Kristy