jiratools 1.2.3

Simple helpers to interface to JIRA from an API or command line.

Some simple API functions and command-line tools for interacting with JIRA.

Setup

All the tools and functions here need your specific information from a jira.config file in your home directory, so you have to do this setup before anything can be used:

• run jira-example-config --install to install an example config file (you can run it without --install to see the contents of what would be installed. (If you already have a jira.config in your home directory, this script will not overwrite it.)

• Fill out the values in the config file with your appropriate data (see the comments in that file for guidance).

Command-Line Tools

jira-example-config can install an example config file for you, see above.

jira-make-linked-issue makes a new JIRA issue that is linked to an exisiting issue; the new issue’s fields can be set from defaults in your jira.config or those values can be overridden on the command line. See --help on this command for all the command line options, and the comments in jira.config for setting the defaults.

jira-add-comment adds a comment to a JIRA issue. The jira.config file is needed to authenticate to JIRA. No other data from the jira.config file is used by this commmand. See --help on this command for details. You can also use - as your comment and jira-add-comment will read the comment from stdin instead. Note that if you use - interactively, you cannot edit your comment before it is posted.

jira-search-issues searches JIRA using your JQL query. The jira.config file is needed to authenticate to JIRA. You may set a default integer max_results value as MAX_RESULT_COUNT in jira.config, or set a value of -1 for no max by default. See --help on this command for details.

jira-link-issues creates a link between two issues. The jira.config is needed to authenticate to JIRA.

Examples

• jira-add-comment JIRA-1234 "Work in Progress. PR delayed by network problems." – Add the comment to JIRA-1234 using the user/password from your jira.config Note that the comment has to be just one command line argument surrounded by quotes if it contains spaces, etc.

• jira-make-linked-issue JIRA-1234 – will create a JIRA in your TEST_PROJECT to test JIRA-1234, and link the two, assigning it to you and adding any watchers specified in your default watchers list.

• jira-make-linked-issue JIRA-1234 --project OTHER – will create a test JIRA as above, but in OTHER

• jira-make-linked-issue JIRA-1234 --user bobm5523 – will create the JIRA as above, but assign to bobm5523

• jira-make-linked-issue JIRA-1234 -w sall9987 -w benj4444 – will create the JIRA and assign sall9987 and benj4444 as watchers instead of your default watcher list

• jira-search-issues "project=ABC AND summary ~ client" – will print a list of links and titles for issues in project ABC that include the word “client” in the summary.

• jira-link-issues ABC-123 XYZ-456 – will create a link such that ABC-123 relates to XYZ-456