New to JIRA Development, Need Some Help

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Hi all,

This is my first post in Atlassian Dev!

I’m working on creating my own Jira Plugin that takes action once a user does something like update an issue. Where I’m running into issues is actually reacting to that event. I’ve read all the documentation I can find, and the tutorial surrounding this type of development was posted 2 years ago and I had to use multiple workarounds just to follow it. I’m at the point where I’ve found that com.atlassian.jira.event.issue.IssueEvent is where I should be looking. But I’m still unfamiliar with how to actually react to this event, and how to get info surrounding that event.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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The interesting portions of the code example are:

  • The actual Listener class: Bitbucket
  • The pom.xml file, which handles dependencies: Bitbucket

The short path here is as follows.

Add a dependency on Spring Framework for the lifecycle events (to “register” and “unregister” your Listener as your plugin comes and goes).

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
            <version>4.3.6.RELEASE</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

Write a listener that Injects EventPublisher, Implements DisposableBean/InitializingBean and override the methods with the eventPublisher.register(this) bit. Then write a method annotated with @EventListener that does what you want.

@EventListener
    public void onIssueEvent(IssueEvent issueEvent) {
        Long eventTypeId = issueEvent.getEventTypeId();
        Issue issue = issueEvent.getIssue();

        if (eventTypeId.equals(EventType.ISSUE_CREATED_ID)) {
            log.info("Issue {} has been created at {}.", issue.getKey(), issue.getCreated());
        } else if (eventTypeId.equals(EventType.ISSUE_RESOLVED_ID)) {
            log.info("Issue {} has been resolved at {}.", issue.getKey(), issue.getResolutionDate());
        } else if (eventTypeId.equals(EventType.ISSUE_CLOSED_ID)) {
            log.info("Issue {} has been closed at {}.", issue.getKey(), issue.getUpdated());
        }
    }
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