JIRA Development Cookbook - Third Edition

Linking directly to search queries

Haven't you wondered how we can link to a query from a template or JSP from a custom page or plugin page? In this recipe, we will see how we can create a link, programmatically and otherwise, to use in various places.

How to do it...

Let us first look at creating a search link programmatically. Perform the following steps:

1. Create the Query object using JqlQueryBuilder, as we have seen in the previous recipe.
2. Create a IssueSearchParamaters object as shown here:

            IssueSearchParameters params = 
            SearchService.IssueSearchParameters.builder().query(query).build();

3. Get an instance of the SearchService. It could be injected in the constructor of your plugin using dependency injection, or can be retrieved from ...