How to add another bulk operation?

Question

Jira allows to add web fragments on different locations.

I'd like to write a plugin that adds another bulk operation but can neither find a location (if this done via a web fragement at all) nor a hint in the Jira Plugin Module Types how to add such an operation. From existing plugins (e.g. exporter) I got the impression that there must be a way.

Any help appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

It is possible to do it, here is what I did:

I extended AbstractBulkOperation class and used approach with EventListener to add this operation in afterPropertiesSet like this:

ComponentAccessor.getBulkOperationManager().addBulkOperation(MyOperationClass.NAME_KEY, MyOperationClass.class);

You need to implement canPerform, perform (the actual operation), getOperationName, getCannotPerformMessageKey, getNameKey, getDescriptionKey

I extended AbstractBulkOperationDetailsAction, but BulkEditBeanSessionHelper couldn't be autowired so I introduced protected constructor and got it there:

protected MyActionClass()
{
super(null, ComponentManager.getComponentInstanceOfType(BulkEditBeanSessionHelper.class));

genericBulkWatchOperation = ComponentAccessor.getBulkOperationManager().getOperation(NAME_KEY);
}

You need to implement getOperationDetailsActionName, doDetails,doDetailsValidation, doPerform methods in this class.

I created Webwork element in atlassian-plugin.xml, something like this:

<webwork1 key="key" name="name" class="java.lang.Object">
<actions>
<action name="path to action class" alias="Action">
<command name="details" alias="ActionDetails">
<view name="success">/secure/views/bulkedit/bulkchooseoperation.jsp</view>
<view name="input">/secure/views/bulkedit/bulkActiondetails.jsp</view>
<view name="error">/secure/views/bulkedit/bulkchooseoperation.jsp</view>
</command>
<command name="detailsValidation" alias="ActionDetailsValidation">
<view name="input">/secure/views/bulkedit/bulkActionconfirmation.jsp</view>
<view name="error">/secure/views/bulkedit/bulkActionconfirmation.jsp</view>
</command>
<command name="perform" alias="ActionPerform">
<view name="error">/secure/views/bulkedit/bulkActionerror.jsp</view>
</command>
</action>
</actions>
</webwork1>

JSP files cannot be embedded in plugin, I deployed them to /secure/views/bulkedit

To wrap it up - you need 3 classes (Operation, Action and EventListener), webwork definition in atlassian-plugin.xml and Event Listener definition also in atlassian-plugin.xml. Then you need JSP files. You can take existing ones and use them as an example. Basically I took WatchIssue operation files and did it analogically.

I strongly suggest to take a look at JIRA code to see how they do it.