Hi,
I am new to plugin development and I’m a bit confused.
I am writing a JIRA Server plugin to run within JIRA. How do I call the JIRA Software API? Looks like it is REST only (since 6.2.x), does that mean that I need to create a HTTP request from my java code? Seems a bit strange, am I missing something?
Or do I add jira-software-application to my POM file?
Thanks,
Justin
Hi @ubangy,
There are several ways to call the API, one could be via Java by dependencies and Rest API. What are you trying to do? I could find some tutorials for you.
Thanks!
Cheers,
Anne Calantog
Anne, thanks for your reply. I am trying to get story point estimates for a number of issues. Having done some reading myself I know the REST API calls to make but how do you do it? What is best practice from within a server plugin? For example, what library do I use to make the calls from the client side code?
AUI (the front end javascript library for the Server products) comes with jQuery so you can do the various AJS.$.get() or AJS.$.ajax() that jQuery supports. For more details - see jQuery.ajax() | jQuery API Documentation
Thanks all. Have it working 
How do I accomplish a call from within my JIRA Plugin to either the JIRA REST API or a REST API provided by another JIRA Plugin? TIA.