Remote user and group management

Let's now have a look at the user and group management using remote APIs. This is really useful when the users and groups need to be managed from a third-party application.

As opposed to the previous recipes, this one uses SOAP methods because user and group management is not yet available via REST.

Getting ready

Create a SOAP client as mentioned in the Creating a SOAP client recipe.

How to do it...

Creating a group and user are pretty straightforward. The following is how we do it once the client is created:

//Create group jtricks-test-group
RemoteGroup group = jiraSoapService.createGroup(authToken, "jtricks-test-group", null);
//Create user jtricks-test-user
RemoteUser user = jiraSoapService.createUser(authToken, "jtricks-test-user", "password", "Test User", "[e-mail]");

Here, the first snippet creates a group with the name jtricks-test-group. The third argument is RemoteUser which can be added to the group as the first user when the group is created...