How to I access the jira home directory from inside a Jira plugin?

[Sorin Sbarnea (Citrix)]

How to I access the jira home directory from inside a Jira Java listener plugin?

I am writing a listener and I do not know how to get the jira home directory and I do not want to hardcode the path to it.

[Igor Sereda [ALM Works] · Accepted solution]

I also don't think Jamie's answer is the right way -- you'd better try

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor;
import com.atlassian.jira.config.util.JiraHome;

...
ComponentAccessor.getComponentOfType(JiraHome.class).getHome()

I second Jamie's comment that there's no "install directory". If you have your custom scripts, you'd be better off by putting them into some sub-directory under JIRA home.

[JamieA]

Yeah you're right, my answer is not strictly correct. But I got the points, which is all that matters ;-)

[Igor Sereda [ALM Works]]

:) .

[Sorin Sbarnea (Citrix)]

Excuse my Java newbie question but your example is a little bit incomplete, it does not compile because it does not find the JiraHome.class - which seams to be just interface. Can you improve it a little bit? Also, add the required `import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor;`

[Igor Sereda [ALM Works]]

Of course you need to import JiraHome and ComponentAccessor - are you using any Java IDE? They would suggest and add import statements automatically.

[Jeremy Largman]

Thanks, this worked for me. Full statement, with imports:

import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor;
import com.atlassian.jira.config.util.JiraHome;
...
ComponentAccessor.getComponentOfType(JiraHome.class).getHome()

[JamieA]

import com.atlassian.jira.config.util.DefaultJiraHome

new DefaultJiraHome().getHome()

Although I don't think this is the right way... can't find the manager class for this atm.

[Sorin Sbarnea (Citrix)]

The funny part was the in fact I was looking for Jira install directory not the home directory, but your answer is correct for this question. Does it happen to know the other one too?

[Sorin Sbarnea (Citrix)]

Thats easy to say, but I do have few scripts that are currently called with full paths /root/scripts/ and I'm moving them inside jira installation directory.

[JamieA]

I don't think you should need to know it... it might be app server specific. Eg catalina.base system property on tomcat.

[JamieA]

What kind of scripts? I'd move them out of the install dir, and use relative paths or a system property for the location.

[Mizan]

Hi Jamie ,

I am using the above methods provided by you and Igor in a groovy script for behaviours plugin , but i get an exception that unable to resolve class DefaulltJiraHome , can you please suggest what i can do to resolve this ?

Thanks

[JamieA]

Can you import JiraHome? That is the right way to do it...

[Mizan]

For both JiraHome and DefaultJiraHome i get an unable to resolve class exception for my script

[Tony Filipe]

You can also have JiraHome injected into your constructor:

import com.atlassian.jira.config.util.JiraHome;

public class MyOwnComponent {
	private JiraHome jiraHome;
	
	public MyOwnComponent (JiraHome jiraHome) {
		this.jiraHome = jiraHome;
	}

(This also works for an action that extends JiraWebActionSupport)

[Jira 6, Plugin SDK 4.2.9]