Writing a simple custom field

In this recipe, we will see how to write a new custom field type. Once created, we can create a number of custom fields of this type on our JIRA instance that can then be used to capture information on the issues.

New Custom field types are created with the help of the customfield-type module. The following are the key attributes and elements supported.

Attributes:

Name	Description
key	This should be unique within the plugin.
class	Must implement the com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.CustomFieldType interface.
i18n-name-key	The localization key for the human-readable name of the plugin module.
Name	Human-readable name of the web resource.

Elements:

Name	Description
Description	Description of the custom field type.
resource type="velocity"	Velocity templates for the custom field views.

Getting ready

Before we start, create a skeleton plugin. Next, create an eclipse project using the skeleton plugin, and we are good to go!

How to do it...

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