Creating a pie chart in JIRA
As we have already seen in the previous recipes, JIRA ships with a bunch of built-in reports. It also lets us write our own reports using the report plugin module. One of the reports that attract a lot of users in JIRA is the Pie Chart. While the existing JIRA pie reports are really good at what it is meant for, sometimes the need arises to write our own pie charts.
Writing a pie chart in JIRA is easy because JIRA already supports JFreeChart and has utility classes which do most of the work in creating these charts. In this recipe, we will see how to write a simple pie chart with the help of Atlassian Utility classes.
Getting ready…
Create a skeleton plugin using Atlassian Plugin SDK.
How to do it...
Let us try to create a very simple pie chart without any business logic. To keep things simple and to concentrate on the pie chart, let us go for a report without any input parameters and with just the HTML view. The following are the steps to accomplish this:
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