Introduction

Outerbase Commands offer a flexible method for simplifying a variety of tasks within the Outerbase ecosystem. It will integrate any popular APIs to view the details of the desired functionality effortlessly. For more information about Outerbase commands, please refer to the official documentation here

This article discusses about the development of Outerbase command for Jira API integration.

About Jira

Jira is a widely used project management and issue-tracking tool developed by Atlassian. It is designed to help teams and organizations effectively manage their work, projects, and tasks.

Jira excels at issue tracking and task management. It allows users to create, prioritize, assign, and track issues or tasks, making it particularly popular among software development teams for managing bugs, feature requests, and other development-related activities.

Testing Jira API

Below is the sample python snippet that will fetch the Jira issues from the jira url instance

import pandas as pd
import requests
def jira_search():
    url = 'https://jira.linuxfoundation.org/rest/api/2/search'
    data = []
    jql= 'project = RELENG'
    startAt = 0
    maxResults = 100
    total = 1
    fields = ["key", "fields.summary","fields.status.name", "fields.reporter.name","fields.assignee.name","fields.priority.name"]
    jira_issues_df = pd.DataFrame(columns=fields)
    print(jira_issues_df)

    parameters = {
    'jql': jql,
    'startAt': startAt,
    'maxResults': maxResults,
    'fields': 'assignee,status,resolution,key',
    }
    headers = {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json','Authorization': "Bearer JIRA_API_TOKEN"
    }

    print('Requesting jira data... ' + str(startAt) + ' from ' + str(total))
    response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
    res = response.json()
    data += res['issues']


    return data

Outerbase Command

After testing the API, it is time to write your Outerbase Command function. This is a simple get request that will fetch the Jira issues.

def UserCode():
    response = http_send(
        Request("GET", "https://jira.linuxfoundation.org/rest/api/2/search",{'Content-Type': 'application/json','Authorization': "Bearer JIRA_API_TOKEN"}, None)
    )

    return str(response.body, 'utf-8')

Jira Issues Viewer streamlit app

For the quick POC, I have developed a Streamlit App that fetches Jira issues from the particular hosted Jira instance. Below are the screenshots that explain about the App and its functionality

https://jira-command-outerbase.streamlit.app/

Demo Video & Github Repo Link

Please find the attached link to the demo video here & Github Repository link here

Conclusion

Integration of Jira as Outerbase command will help you to list the Jira issues of your hosted jira instance. Please let me know if you have any questions.

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