How to get issue id in javascript using web-resource module

[Dheeraj Kumar Aggarwal]

I am trying the following way, but failed :

<web-resource key="view-issue-page-web-resources" name="Web Resources">

<resource type="download" name="viewIssue.js" location="includes/js/viewIssue.js">

<param name="issueId" value="${issue.id}"/>

</resource>

<context>jira.view.issue</context>

</web-resource>

AJS.params.issueId is returning undefined.

How can I get the issue id in the js file?

[Dieter]

I think you already know that you can get the project key using

pkey = AJS.$("#key-val").text()

If the key is not sufficient you can the use Ajax to get the rest about the issue (Jira 5 required)

function getIssueByKey(pkey)
{
var result = null;
     AJS.$.ajax({
        url: "/rest/api/2.0/issue/"+pkey,
        type: 'get',
        dataType: 'json',
        async: false,
        success: function(data) {
            result = data
        } 
     });
     return result;
}

id = getIssueByKey(pkey).id

But honestly right now i also don't know how to do that easier or for Jira 4, If there is time during the holiday i will look at that closer

[Dheeraj Kumar Aggarwal]

Thanks Dieter

But I am already using the one below. I don't want to use the hack method and I want to do it in a standard way and I am not able to find that.

var editButton = AJS.$('#editIssue');

if(editButton){

var href = editButton.attr("href");

if(href.indexOf('?id=') > -1){

issueId = href.substring(href.indexOf('?id=')+4);

}

}

[Dieter]

Hi Dheeraj, just for my curiosity: why is the issue key not sufficient?

[Dheeraj Kumar Aggarwal]

Hi Dieter, I am developing a plugin, which has a db table with many to many relationship with JIRA issue id directly. That is the only reason, why I want to use issueId.

One more thing, my problem is still not resolved, because it is possible, that in future versions of JIRA, they change id of html elements. That's why I was asking, is there any standard way of doing that like AJS.params.issueId ?

Anyways Thanks Dieter for the help and quick reply.

[Dieter]

If you need the id just on the view issue screen you might create an issue operation plugin module that instead of a link just renders a div element with id myplugin-issue-id and your issue id as element content. This divwould be placed n the view velocity template of the plugin. To make sure that this doesn't look strange hide this issue link operation using javascript again. Seems a lottle bit tricky but it makes sure you will always get your issue id from the same id