How to integrate JIRA into Aras Innovator

Install the latest version of Innovator from: Aras.

Add the 2 below references to method-config.xml. Look at this Aras community Article for instructions on how to do that.

using Newtonsoft.Json;
using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;

Data model

Create the ItemType: Jira_ISSUE

Properties:

Server events:

Settings:
All settings are contained inside this method:
ARAS_JIRA_Settings - If you don't want settings to be hardcoded inside the method-code - you can use the builtin "Variables" itemtype.

ARAS_JIRA_REST_onBeforeAdd

Item JIRA_settings = this.getInnovator().applyMethod("ARAS_JIRA_Settings", "");
string JIRA_user  = JIRA_settings.getProperty("JIRA_user",""); 
string JIRA_token = JIRA_settings.getProperty("JIRA_token",""); 
string JIRA_projectkey = JIRA_settings.getProperty("JIRA_projectkey","");
string JIRA_baseURL = JIRA_settings.getProperty("JIRA_baseURL","");
string encoded = System.Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1").GetBytes(JIRA_user+":"+JIRA_token));

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(JIRA_baseURL + "/issue/");
request.ContentType="application/json";
request.Method="POST";
request.Headers.Add("Authorization","Basic "+encoded);
string json = "{\"fields\": {\"project\":{\"key\":\"" + JIRA_projectkey + "\"},"+
            "\"summary\":\""+this.getProperty("title","")+"\","+
            "\"description\":\""+this.getProperty("description","")+"\","+
            "\"issuetype\": {\"name\":\""+this.getProperty("issueType","Task")+"\"}}}";
    
using(var streamWriter = new StreamWriter(request.GetRequestStream())){
    streamWriter.Write(json);
    streamWriter.Flush();
    streamWriter.Close();
}  

var httpResponse=(HttpWebResponse) request.GetResponse();
using(var streamReader = new StreamReader(httpResponse.GetResponseStream())){
    var result = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
    JObject Result = JObject.Parse(result);
    this.setProperty("jiraid",Result["id"].ToString());
    this.setProperty("jiraurl",Result["self"].ToString());
    this.setProperty("jirakey",Result["key"].ToString());
}

return this;

ARAS_JIRA_REST_onAfterGet:

Item JIRA_settings = this.getInnovator().applyMethod("ARAS_JIRA_Settings", "");
string JIRA_user  = JIRA_settings.getProperty("JIRA_user",""); 
string JIRA_token = JIRA_settings.getProperty("JIRA_token",""); 
string JIRA_projectkey = JIRA_settings.getProperty("JIRA_projectkey","");
string JIRA_baseURL = JIRA_settings.getProperty("JIRA_baseURL","");
string html = string.Empty;
string encoded = System.Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1").GetBytes(JIRA_user+":"+JIRA_token));

int attempts = 0;
bool completedSuccessfully = false;

while(attempts <= 1 && !completedSuccessfully){
    string ids="(";
    for (int i=0;i<this.getItemCount();i++){
        string id = this.getItemByIndex(i).getProperty("jiraid","");
        if (id!=""){
            if (ids.Length>1){
                ids=ids+",";
            }
            ids=ids+id;
        }
    }
    ids=ids+")";

    // execute the REST Call
    string URL = JIRA_baseURL + "/search?jql=project=\"" + JIRA_projectkey + "\"+AND+id+in+"+ids;
    HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(URL);
    request.Headers.Add("Authorization","Basic "+encoded);
    
    JObject Result;
    try
    {
        using(HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse()){
            using(Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream()) {
                using(StreamReader reader= new StreamReader(stream))
                {
                    html = reader.ReadToEnd();
                    Result = JObject.Parse(html);
                }
     
                IList<JToken> issueResults = Result["issues"].Children().ToList();
                
                // merge data
                foreach (JToken issue in issueResults){
                    for (int j =0;j<this.getItemCount();j++){
                        if (this.getItemByIndex(j).getProperty("jiraid","")==issue["id"].ToString()){
                            this.getItemByIndex(j).setProperty("status",issue["fields"]["status"]["name"].ToString());
                            this.getItemByIndex(j).setProperty("title",issue["fields"]["summary"].ToString());
                            this.getItemByIndex(j).setProperty("description",issue["fields"]["description"].ToString());
                            this.getItemByIndex(j).setProperty("jirakey",issue["key"].ToString());
                            this.getItemByIndex(j).setProperty("jiraurl",issue["self"].ToString());
                            this.getItemByIndex(j).setProperty("issuetype",issue["fields"]["issuetype"]["name"].ToString());
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        completedSuccessfully = true;
    }
    catch
    {
        attempts++;
        for (int i=0;i<this.getItemCount();i++){
                URL = JIRA_baseURL + "/search?jql=project=\"" + JIRA_projectkey + "\"+AND+id="+this.getItemByIndex(i).getProperty("jiraid","");
                request = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(URL);
                request.Headers.Add("Authorization","Basic "+encoded);
                
                try
                {
                    HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
                } catch{
                    Item deleteOrphanIssue = this.getInnovator().newItem("Jira_ISSUE", "delete");
                    deleteOrphanIssue.setAttribute("where", "[Jira_ISSUE].jiraid='" + this.getItemByIndex(i).getProperty("jiraid","") + "'");
                    deleteOrphanIssue.apply();
                    if (this.isCollection()) this.removeItem(this.getItemByIndex(i));
                }
        }
    }
}
return this;

ARAS_JIRA_Settings:

Innovator inn = this.getInnovator();
Item JIRA_settings = inn.newItem("JIRA_settings","");
JIRA_settings.setProperty("JIRA_projectkey", "-proj_key-");
JIRA_settings.setProperty("JIRA_token", "-paste-token-here-");
JIRA_settings.setProperty("JIRA_user", "your@email.com");
JIRA_settings.setProperty("JIRA_baseURL", "https://[your-jira-instance]/rest/api/2");
return JIRA_settings;