Atlassian on Micha Kops' Tech Notes

Continuous Delivery with GitHub Cloud and GitHub Pipelines

Fri, 01 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0200

Atlassian has added a continuous integration service as a new feature to their GitHub Cloud product. It’s called GitHub Pipelines and it is similar to Travis CI for GitHub offering a nice integration for continuous integration/delivery pipelines for projects hosted on GitHub.

It’s still in the beta phase and requires a sign-up but nevertheless I’d like to demonstrate the current state of this service and how easy it is to add scripted pipelines to a project.

Creating and Providing HipChat Integrations with Atlassian Connect, Nodejs and Express

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0200

HipChat is Atlassian’s alternative to Slack and its solution to team collaboration chats. Atlassian Connect offers developer tools to bootstrap applications, connect to Atlassian’s cloud products with easy and in combination with HipChat’s REST APIs allows us to write integrations for such a chat server in no time.

In the following tutorial I’d like to show how to write an integration within a few steps using Atlassian Connect, Node.js and Express and how to connect the integration to a HipChat server.

Creating a XMPP Chat Bot with Apache Camel

Sun, 12 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0200

Apache Camel not only is one of my favourite frameworks ever but it also allows the humble developer to create a full blown chat bot within a few lines of code and using the Camel XMPP component.

In the following tutorial, we’re going to create a simple chat bot and since Atlassian’s HipChat basic plan is now free for unlimited users, we’re using HipChat as our play- and testing ground for the bot.

Creating a Blueprint or Content-Creator Plugin for Confluence

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0100

Blueprint is a new API in Confluence 5 that allows developers to create new content elements and to hook into the Confluence “create” dialogue – not to be confused with OSGi blueprints, the CSS blueprint framework or Tinkerpop Blueprints here.

Content may be added using simple XHTML templates, dynamic templates enriched with data from context providers or even customized JavaScript dialogues.

Another feature is, that pages of a specific blueprint type may be aggregated in a collector view that displays all pages created with the specific blueprint

New Plugin released: Quick Subtasks for JIRA

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0200

Recently after a long sprint planning meeting I had the pleasure to spend some time writing down the results of the team’s task breakdown in JIRA.

In our process, each user story is documented as a JIRA issue and each task from the breakdown is saved as a subtask for the parent issue.

Because I am too lazy in this situation I wrote the following plugin that allowed me to quickly create multiple subtasks for a selected JIRA issue.

Jeah we’ve won the Atlassian Codegeist 2012 Competition – or – The return of the Pirate Ninja Unicorn

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0200

Figure 1. Pirate-Ninja-Unicorn Logo

Happy news for us, Theresa and I we’ve won the Atlassian Codegeist Competition 2012 with our Stash Readme Parser Plugin in the category: Best Stash Plugin.

We had two other plugins in the game, the Stash QR Code Plugin and the HTTP Request Workflow Function for Jira

If you’re interested please take a look at the plugins in the Atlassian Marketplace our funny looking Pirate Ninja Unicorn Website or the project’s overview in my blog.

Confluence User Profile Mobile vCard Plugin released

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0200

I’ve released a new plugin for the popular Confluence Wiki that extends the user profile with new tab that displays the user’s vcard as a QR code.

This allows an easy import of address data from Confluence to your smartphone.

Features

Display of a Confluence user’s contact data as a QR code in a separate tab in the user profile
More to be implemented ..

Installation

Just download the plugin from Atlassian’s Plugin Exchange and install it using the Universal Plugin Manager in your Confluence’s administration area
That’s all .. nothing to configure here ..

Confluence Social Comments Plugin

Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 +0200

I have created a new, free plugin for Confluence, the popular enterprise wiki.

The plugin allows you to notify users of ongoing discussions in comments on a confluence page by posting a specific token including the user’s name like this: “@username:”

Features

Configurable notification settings in the administration area
Several placeholders to be used in the e-mail template for the notifications
User filtering to avoid sending duplicate e-mails
For more detailed information take a look at the Maven generated project website

How to create a Confluence SOAP Component in 5 Minutes

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0200

You’re using the popular Confluence wiki? You’re using its RPC/SOAP API and missing a function you really need? Just extend the capabilities of the Confluence RPC API by programming a custom web service component – it is really easy and also well documented.

In this tutorial we’re going to take a look on how to quickly implement a SOAP service, securing it and putting its methods in a transactional context.

Prerequisites

Maven >=2
JDK >= 5
Confluence Wiki >= 3.0 (for a quick installation guide take a look at this article)
SoapUI for Testing

Snippets: Getting License Information from the Confluence API

Thu, 06 May 2010 00:00:00 +0200

Sometimes one needs to look up license details of a running Confluence system .. perhaps for creating a commercial plugin or to display recommendations dependant from the license used. For this reason there are a few possibilities for receiving some license information from the Confluence API or the velocity context.

Note: This article is outdated since the Atlassian Marketplace was launched and a shiny new licensing API was added. Until this article is updated I strongly recommend to take a closer look at the detailed information that Atlassian is providing in the Developer Documentation.

How to build a Confluence Macro Plugin

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0200

The goal is to build a small macro plugin deployable via the Confluence plugin API rendering some spaces.

Please note that I am going to build the plugin using just Maven and not the Atlassian Maven Wrapper called the “Atlassian Plugin SDK” – more information about that is available at the Atlassian website.

The macro output will be rendered using a Velocity template and all messages are stored for i18n in properties files bundled with the plugin.

Confluence Developer Instance Quick Setup

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

This short tutorial shows how to set-up a developer instance of the popular Confluence Wiki from Atlassian in a few minutes.

It’s a prerequisite for a few following tutorials regarding the Confluence API and plug-in development for this system.

We want a quick install so we are going to run Confluence with the embedded servlet container and HSQL database.

update Meanwhile it is way much easier to use Atlassian’s Plugin SDK using atlas-mvn run or atlas-mvn-run-standalone –product confluence –version x.x.x but if you need to setup an independant instance, this article still might be useful.

Atlassian Snippets

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Disable YUI compressor

<plugin>
    <groupId>com.atlassian.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-jira-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>${amps.version}</version>
    <extensions>true</extensions>
    <configuration>
        <compressResources>false</compressResources>
        [..]
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Confluence – Get favourites by user

Using the label manager.

List getFavouriteSpaces(String username)

Confluence – Determine the base URL

Using the SettingsManager:

String baseUrl = settingsManager.getGlobalSettings().getBaseUrl();

Confluence – Get the context path

Using the BootstrapManager:

String contextPath = bootstrapManager.getWebAppContextPath();

Confluence – Using Velocity Template for a Macro

final VelocityContext contextMap = new VelocityContext(MacroUtils.defaultVelocityContext());

contextMap.put("key", obj); // references obj as variable named $key in the velocity template

VelocityUtils.getRenderedTemplate("path/to/template.vm", contextMap);