Experienced guide to Bitbucket Data Center plugin development

Welcome to the experienced plugin development guide for Bitbucket Data Center. This guide assumes you are familiar with the Atlassian Plugin Framework and have installed the Atlassian Plugin SDK. If you are still new to plugin development for Atlassian products then start with the beginner guide to Bitbucket Data Center plugin development.

We have two options for you to follow: start from working code by forking an existing plugin, or begin completely from scratch.

Forking an existing plugin

Choose an example plugin that most resembles what you want to achieve and begin modifying it for your use case.

1. Install the Atlassian Plugin SDK.
2. Create a Bitbucket account.
3. Browse our collection of open source Bitbucket Data Center plugins and fork it into your personal account. You can choose whether to make your fork public or private.
4. Modify the plugin to suit your needs.

Starting from scratch

Use our CLI tool to generate the plugin structure then begin developing your own behavior from a clean slate.

1. Install the Atlassian Plugin SDK.
2. Run atlas-create-bitbucket-plugin from a command prompt window and follow the prompts to create your plugin.
3. Run atlas-create-bitbucket-plugin-module from the root directory of your plugin or hand edit your atlassian-plugin.xml file to add additional modules to your plugin.
4. Run atlas-run from the root directory of your plugin to start Bitbucket Data Center with your plugin installed. See the Atlassian Plugin SDK Documentation for more information on developing and debugging your plugin.
5. Modify the plugin to suit your needs.

Next steps

To keep learning about plugin development for Bitbucket Data Center, continue with the following:

• Read through the REST documentation for Bitbucket Data Center
• List your plugin on the Atlassian marketplace