getting the most out of the universal plugin manager

John KodumalTechnical Lead, Atlassian

Getting the most out of the Universal Plugin Manager

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You give 100 percent in the first half of the game,

and if that isn't enough in the second half you give

what's left.

Yogi Berra

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Now 100% more universal

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JIRA 4.1

Confluence 3.1

FE/Cru 2.5

Bamboo 3.1

Reloadable plugins

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New in JIRA 4.4!

• Improved support for proxies• Offline mode

• Better support for walled-off servers

• Over 40 issues since January

Squashing bugs

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They misunderestimated me.

George W. Bush

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• Fetch the audit log as an RSS feed

Read the feed

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• UPM has a complete REST API• And UPM itself is a client!

• Many potential applications• UPM gadget• Notification e-mails

Use the REST API

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Using the api$ curl -u admin:admin -basic http://localhost:2990/jira/rest/plugins/1.0/

{ "plugins":[ { "enabled":true, "name":"Admin Menu Sections", "userInstalled":false, "description":"This library includes the web fragments for the administration menu", "links":{ "modify":"/jira/rest/plugins/1.0/jira.webfragments.admin-key", "delete":"/jira/rest/plugins/1.0/jira.webfragments.admin-key" }, }, ... ], "links":{ "available":"/jira/rest/plugins/1.0/available", "upgrades":"/jira/rest/plugins/1.0/available/upgrades", "enter-safe-mode":"/jira/rest/plugins/1.0/safe-mode", "install":"/jira/rest/plugins/1.0/" ... },}

Scripting the UPM

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#!/usr/bin/env pythonfrom subprocess import Popen, PIPE, STDOUTimport json,os

nul_f = open(os.devnull, 'w')cmd = 'curl -basic -u admin:admin http://localhost:2990/jira/rest/plugins/1.0/upgrades'p = Popen(cmd, shell=True, stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, stderr=nul_f, close_fds=True)print len(json.loads(p.stdout.read())['plugins'])

Crouching tiger, hidden tab

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http://{baseurl}

/plugins/servlet

/upm#osgi

The future will be better tomorrow.

Dan Quayle

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