Working with JIRA Webhooks
A webhook is a user-defined callback over HTTP. We can use webhooks to notify third-party applications when an event happens in JIRA. This is a great functionality as it can be used to integrate JIRA with third-party applications without even writing a single line of code.
All we need to do is to configure a webhook, based on the appropriate JIRA event, and then invoke the third-party application's remote API over HTTP.
For example, you can trigger a build in Bamboo or create a pull request in Stash when a JIRA issue moves from one state to another.
How to do it...
The following are the details required for configuring a webhook:
- Name: Name of the webhook.
- URL: URL to send the callback.
- Scope: Scope of the webhook. We can apply ...
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