create a workflow programatically?

[John Rassel]

I want to create a workflow, a workflowscheme and associate it to a project programatically.

Any code examples to help get me started?

[Andreas Ebert]

JIRA saves a workflow as XML. If you already have your workflow in the correct XML format, then creating the workflow is quite easy:

WorkflowDescriptor myWorkflowDescriptor = WorkflowUtil.convertXMLtoWorkflowDescriptor(myWorkflowAsXml));
JiraWorkflow myWorkflow = new ConfigurableJiraWorkflow(myWorkflowName, myWorkflowDescriptor, workflowManager);
workflowManager.createWorkflow(anAdminUser, myWorkflow);

Otherwise, creating the Workflow could be cumbersome. It depends how complex you Workflow is.

Creating a WorkflowScheme:

Scheme scheme = workflowSchemeManager.createSchemeObject(myWorkflowSchemeName, myWorkflowSchemeDescription);
AssignableWorkflowScheme myWorkflowScheme = workflowSchemeManager.getWorkflowSchemeObj(scheme.getName()); // necessary intermediate step
AssignableWorkflowScheme.Builder myWorkflowSchemeBuilder = myWorkflowScheme.builder();

Assigning Workflows to the Scheme:

// default (all IssueTypes)
myWorkflowSchemeBuilder.setDefaultWorkflow(myWorkflow.getName());
// ... or only for a specific IssueType
myWorkflowSchemeBuilder.setMapping(issueType.getId(), myWorkflow.getName());

workflowSchemeManager.updateWorkflowScheme(myWorkflowSchemeBuilder.build());

Associate Scheme to Project:

workflowSchemeManager.addSchemeToProject(project, workflowSchemeManager.getSchemeObject(myWorkflowScheme.getId()));

Does this help?

[John Rassel]

I got it working but having some minor issues:

1. I create the workflow scheme

2. for every custom issue type of mine:

2a. i create the workflow for that issue type

2b. using myWorkflowSchemeBuilder.setMapping I associate the issuetype with the workflow

2c. I update the scheme: workflowSchemeManager.updateWorkflowScheme

3. outside of my for loop - I associate it to the project

workflowSchemeManager.addSchemeToProject(project, workflowSchemeManager.getSchemeObject(myWorkflowScheme.getId()));

The issue is that on the workflow page, my newly created workflows are listed as INACTIVE; however my workflow scheme is listed as ACTIVE and the association between the issue type and the newly created workflow looks right. What am i missing?

[hanen jouaied]

hello John , could you please share your code? 

[Uday Kumar]

John,

Will you be able to share the code of what you achieved?

I'm looking for creating custom workflow along with screen transistions.

Thanks in advance