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Pre-Chain Action module

Available:

Bamboo 2.7 and later

Purpose of this Module Type

Pre-Chain Action modules allow plugins to define custom functionality that runs before the Plan executes. The module provides access to the Chain object and the ChainExecution.

Configuration

The root element for the Pre-Chain Action module is preChainAction. It allows the following attributes and child elements for configuration:

Attributes

Name	Description
class	The class which implements this plugin module. The class you need to provide depends on the module type. For example, Confluence theme, layout and colour-scheme modules can use classes already provided in Confluence. So you can write a theme-plugin without any Java code. But for macro and listener modules you need to write your own implementing class and include it in your plugin. See the plugin framework guide to creating plugin module instances.
key	The unique identifier of the plugin module. You refer to this key to use the resource from other contexts in your plugin, such as from the plugin Java code or JavaScript resources. 1 2 `<component-import key="appProps" interface="com.atlassian.sal.api.ApplicationProperties"/>` In the example, `appProps` is the key for this particular module declaration, for `component-import`, in this case.
name	The human-readable name of the plugin module. Only used in the plugin's administrative user interface.

Name

Description

class

The class which implements this plugin module. The class you need to provide depends on the module type. For example, Confluence theme, layout and colour-scheme modules can use classes already provided in Confluence. So you can write a theme-plugin without any Java code. But for macro and listener modules you need to write your own implementing class and include it in your plugin. See the plugin framework guide to creating plugin module instances.

key

The unique identifier of the plugin module. You refer to this key to use the resource from other contexts in your plugin, such as from the plugin Java code or JavaScript resources.

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<component-import
key="appProps"
interface="com.atlassian.sal.api.ApplicationProperties"/>

In the example, appProps is the key for this particular module declaration, for component-import, in this case.

name

The human-readable name of the plugin module.

Only used in the plugin's administrative user interface.

*class and key attributes are required.

Elements

The table summarises the elements. The sections below contain further information.

Name	Description
description	The description of the plugin module. The 'key' attribute can be specified to declare a localisation key for the value instead of text in the element body. Use this element to describe the section.

description

The description of the plugin module. The 'key' attribute can be specified to declare a localisation key for the value instead of text in the element body.

Use this element to describe the section.

Interface

Pre-Chain Action modules must implement the PreChainAction interface.

Example

Here is an example atlassian-plugin.xml file containing a Pre-Chain Action module:

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<atlassian-plugin name="Hello World" key="example.plugin.helloworld">
    <plugin-info>
        <description>A Pre-Chain action module type test</description>
        <vendor name="Atlassian Software Systems" url="http://www.atlassian.com"/>
        <version>1.0</version>
    </plugin-info>

    <preChainAction key="myPreChainAction" class="com.atlassian.example.bamboo.actions.MyPreChainAction">
        <description>Sets up the MyBambooPlugin if the Chain has the plugin enabled</description>
    </preChainAction>
</atlassian-plugin>