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During my internship at WSO2 I created a JIRA issue tracking gadget as a small project. This is flexible gadget made according to the Google gadgets API so it works on any gadget container that supports Google gadgets API such as iGoogle, orkut, WSO2 Gadget Server, etc. In my previous post i explained the data retrieval method I used to gather data for the gadget. Features Allows the user to specify any company or organisation he/she wants to track the JIRA issues. Displays the most important data and provides a link for additional information. Includes a search tab that provides all the search options provided by the JIRA dashboard The user can specify the URL of the organisation or company he/she wants to track. Lets say you want to track the Issues of apache.org you have to set "https://issues.apache.org" as the URL likewise the user can specify any JIRA URL that needs to be tracked. The interface is created using jQuery UI...

      When developing a JIRA gadget for the WSO2 Gadget Server i found out that some aspects of the JIRA facilities are not well documented. This post will try to help with one such not-well documented service provided by Atlassian JIRA.       In my gadget i had to filter the data that i needed according to several parameter that would vary from request to request.I decided to use "searchrequest-xml" that is provided by Atlassian JIRA this can be accessed by a simple URL and can also be filtered using parameters in the URL. This will return a XML containing the data that was requested. How the parameters should be defined to filter the request is not clearly documented. The aim of this post to provide a brief documentation as to how the parameters can be set for the "searchrequest-xml" URL request. What You Need To Know     The things given below are not that necessary ...