Last updated Mar 8, 2024

SAL services

Below is a list of the services provided by the Atlassian Shared Access Layer. You will find more developer help in the Javadoc.

Service Descriptions and Examples

Package com.atlassian.sal.api

ApplicationProperties

Exposes key application settings such as the base URL, application name, build information and version number.

Example -- Obtaining base url of the application:

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public class DefaultStudioInfo
{
private final ApplicationProperties applicationProperties;

public DefaultStudioInfo(final ApplicationProperties applicationProperties)
{
this.applicationProperties = applicationProperties;
}

public String getCurrentAppBaseUrl()
{
return applicationProperties.getBaseUrl();
}
}

Package com.atlassian.sal.api.auth

AuthenticationController

Allows the host application to communicate about when authentication should be performed and users allowed to login.

AuthenticationListener

Allows the underlying framework to take some actions on authentication events.

Authenticator

Marker interface for classes that can authenticate requests.

LoginUriProvider

Provides the URI to redirect users to so that they can log in before they can authorise consumer requests to access their data.

Package com.atlassian.sal.api.component

ComponentLocator

Gives access to the application's component container instances.

Package com.atlassian.sal.api.executor

ThreadLocalDelegateExecutorFactory

Factory to create Executor instances that delegate to a specific Executor and ensure the executed code runs in the same thread local context.

Package com.atlassian.sal.api.license

LicenseHandler

Handles setting and retrieving the application's license.

Package com.atlassian.sal.api.lifecycle

LifecycleAware

Marks a class that wants to execute code on certain application-level lifecycle stages.

LifecycleManager

Interface to be used to trigger lifecycle events. Handles lifecycle events by calling LifecycleAware methods on registered beans.

Package com.atlassian.sal.api.message

I18nResolver

Resolves an internationalisation key or key/argument pair to its internationalised message.

LocaleResolver

Used to retrieve the user's locale, based on the remote users preferences, or the preferred locale as specified in the request or finally defaulting to the system locale if no preferred locale is set.

Message

Encapsulates a message before it has been resolved via an I18N resolver.

MessageCollection

A collection of messages that have not been resolved.

Package com.atlassian.sal.api.net

Request

Represents a request to retrieve data. To execute a request call Request#execute(ResponseHandler).

RequestFactory

Provides a factory for making HTTP requests with optional authentication.

Example -- Running remote search:

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public class RemoteSearcher
{
private final String url;
private static final String SEARCH_PLUGIN_PATH = "/plugins/servlet/studio/search";
private final RequestFactory<?> requestFactory;

public RemoteSearcher(final String url, final RequestFactory<?> requestFactory)
{
this.url = url;
this.requestFactory = requestFactory;
}

public SearchResults search(final String remoteUser, final String query)
{
final String fullUrl = url + SEARCH_PLUGIN_PATH + "?query=" + URIUtil.encodeWithinQuery(query);

final Request<?> request = requestFactory.createRequest(MethodType.GET, fullUrl);
request.addTrustedTokenAuthentication(); // this takes username from ThreadLocal
try
{
// parse the response
final String responseString = request.execute();
return (SearchResults) XStreamUtils.fromXML(responseString);
}
catch (final ResponseException e)
{
throw new RuntimeException("Search for " + query + " on " + fullUrl + " failed.", e);
}
}
}

Response

Represents the response when calling Request#execute(ResponseHandler).

ResponseException

Exception thrown by Request#execute(ResponseHandler) and Request#handle(ResponseHandler).

ResponseHandler

Callback interface used by Request#execute(ResponseHandler) method. Implementation of this interface performs actual handling of the response.

Package com.atlassian.sal.api.net.auth

Authenticator

Marker interface for an authenticator.

Package com.atlassian.sal.api.pluginsettings

PluginSettings

Provides access to settings globally or per project/space/repository.

Example -- Saving and retrieving custom settings per project:

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public class CustomProjectSettings
{
    private final PluginSettingsFactory pluginSettingsFactory;
    private final String projectKey;

    public CustomProjectSettings(final PluginSettingsFactory pluginSettingsFactory, final String projectKey)
    {
    this.pluginSettingsFactory = pluginSettingsFactory;
    this.projectKey = projectKey;
    }

    public void setValue(final String key, final String value)
    {
    final PluginSettings settings = pluginSettingsFactory.createSettingsForKey(projectKey);
    settings.put(key, value);
    }

    public Object getValue(final String key)
    {
    final PluginSettings settings = pluginSettingsFactory.createSettingsForKey(projectKey);
    return settings.get(key);
    }
}

PluginSettingsFactory

One feature provided by SAL is storage of plugin settings, for global and project-specific settings. You will create a PluginSettings object via a PluginSettingsFactory, which uses the abstract factory pattern. Refer to the developer blog post on Storing plugin settings with the abstract factory pattern.

Package com.atlassian.sal.api.project

ProjectManager

Provides a list of projects. A project may represent different things depending on the application. For example, in Confluence it is a space, in Bamboo it is a build plan, and in JIRA it is a project.

Package com.atlassian.sal.api.scheduling

PluginJob

A job to be executed by the PluginScheduler.

PluginScheduler

Schedules plugin jobs programmatically.

ResourceType

Defines the more information about the search resource (e.g. JIRA, wiki).

SearchMatch

A single match for a query (e.g. an issue, a wiki page, a commit). The match contains a URL, title and possibly an excerpt. The resourceType contains more information about the source of this searchMatch.

SearchProvider

Executes search queries. Allows for simple string based searches in an application.

SearchResults

Provides searchresults for a query.

Package com.atlassian.sal.api.search.parameter

SearchParameter

Allows you to specify additional properties for a search as string value pairs. For example this could specify a fixforversion=3.12 in JIRA, or application=crucible in FishEye.

Package com.atlassian.sal.api.search.query

SearchQuery

Utility to help with creating a query string.

SearchQueryParser

Parses a search query.

Package com.atlassian.sal.api.transaction

TransactionCallback

A simple callback that needs to be provided with an action to run in the doInTransaction method. It is assumed that if anything goes wrong, doInTransaction will throw a RuntimeException and the calling transactionTemplate will roll back the transaction.

TransactionTemplate

Package com.atlassian.sal.api.timezone

TimeZoneManager

Available since SAL 2.6.
Provides timezone information about the users and about the application.

Package com.atlassian.sal.api.upgrade

PluginUpgradeManager

Provides a plugin upgrade framework that will recognise PluginUpgradeTask tasks and run them on startup.

PluginUpgradeTask

Package com.atlassian.sal.api.user

UserManager

Provides simplified access to users across various applications, and performs user authentication checks.

UserResolutionException

Services Available per Application

The matrix below shows the services available to each version of the Atlassian applications that support the Shared Access Layer. The applications are listed horizontally across the top and the SAL versions are listed vertically on the left.

  • Version numbers in brackets indicate a future application release expected to support the relevant SAL services.
  • YES shows that the SAL service is available to the relevant version of the application.
  • NO means that the service is not available to the relevant version of the application.

Package com.atlassian.sal.api

SAL ServiceApplicationProperties
JIRA 3.13YES
(JIRA 4.0)YES
ConfluenceYES
FishEye/Crucible 1.6.5YES
FishEye/Crucible 2.0YES
Crowd 2.0YES
Bamboo 2.3YES
RefImplYES

Package com.atlassian.sal.api.auth

SAL ServiceApplicationController, ApplicationListener, LoginUriProviderAuthenticator
JIRA 3.13NO
(JIRA 4.0)NO
ConfluenceYES
FishEye/Crucible 1.6.5NO
FishEye/Crucible 2.0NO
Crowd 2.0NO
Bamboo 2.3YES
RefImplNO
 
Package com.atlassian.sal.api.component
SAL ServiceComponentLocator
JIRA 3.13YES
(JIRA 4.0)YES
ConfluenceYES
FishEye/Crucible 1.6.5YES
FishEye/Crucible 2.0YES
Crowd 2.0YES
Bamboo 2.3YES
RefImplYES

Package com.atlassian.sal.api.executor

SAL ServiceThreadLocalDelegateExecutorFactory
JIRA 3.13YES
(JIRA 4.0)YES
ConfluenceYES
FishEye/Crucible 1.6.5YES
FishEye/Crucible 2.0YES
Crowd 2.0NO
Bamboo 2.3YES
RefImplYES

Package com.atlassian.sal.api.license

SAL ServiceLicenseHandler
JIRA 3.13YES
(JIRA 4.0)YES
ConfluenceYES
FishEye/Crucible 1.6.5YES
FishEye/Crucible 2.0YES
Crowd 2.0YES
Bamboo 2.3NO
RefImplYES

Package com.atlassian.sal.api.lifecycle

SAL ServiceLifecycleManagerLifecycleAware
JIRA 3.13YES
(JIRA 4.0)YES
ConfluenceYES
FishEye/Crucible 1.6.5YES
FishEye/Crucible 2.0YES
Crowd 2.0YES
Bamboo 2.3YES
RefImplYES

Packagecom.atlassian.sal.api.message

SAL ServiceI18nResolver, LocaleResolverMessage, MessageCollection
JIRA 3.13YES
(JIRA 4.0)?
ConfluenceYES
FishEye/Crucible 1.6.5YES
FishEye/Crucible 2.0YES
Crowd 2.0YES
Bamboo 2.3YES
RefImplYES

 com.atlassian.sal.api.net

SAL ServiceRequestFactoryRequest, Response, ResponseException, ResponseHandler
JIRA 3.13YES
(JIRA 4.0)YES
ConfluenceYES
FishEye/Crucible 1.6.5YES
FishEye/Crucible 2.0YES
Crowd 2.0YES
Bamboo 2.3?
RefImplYES
 

 com.atlassian.sal.api.net.auth

SAL ServiceAuthenticator
JIRA 3.13
(JIRA 4.0)
Confluence
FishEye/Crucible 1.6.5
FishEye/Crucible 2.0
Crowd 2.0
Bamboo 2.3
RefImpl
 
Package com.atlassian.sal.api.pluginsettings
SAL ServicePluginSettingsFactoryPluginSettings
JIRA 3.13YES
(JIRA 4.0)YES
ConfluenceYES
FishEye/Crucible 1.6.5YES
FishEye/Crucible 2.0YES
Crowd 2.0YES
Bamboo 2.3YES
RefImplYES

Package com.atlassian.sal.api.project

SAL ServiceProjectManager
JIRA 3.13YES
(JIRA 4.0)YES
ConfluenceYES
FishEye/Crucible 1.6.5YES
FishEye/Crucible 2.0YES
Crowd 2.0YES
Bamboo 2.3YES
RefImplYES

Package com.atlassian.sal.api.scheduling

SAL ServicePluginSchedulerPluginJob
JIRA 3.13YES
(JIRA 4.0)YES
ConfluenceYES
FishEye/Crucible 1.6.5YES
FishEye/Crucible 2.0YES
Crowd 2.0YES
Bamboo 2.3YES
RefImplYES

Package com.atlassian.sal.api.search

SAL ServiceSearchProviderResourceType, SearchMatch, SearchResults
JIRA 3.13YES
(JIRA 4.0)YES
ConfluenceYES
FishEye/Crucible 1.6.5YES
FishEye/Crucible 2.0YES
Crowd 2.0YES
Bamboo 2.3NO
RefImplYES

Package com.atlassian.sal.api.search.parameter

SAL ServiceSearchParameter
JIRA 3.13
(JIRA 4.0)
Confluence
FishEye/Crucible 1.6.5
FishEye/Crucible 2.0
Crowd 2.0
Bamboo 2.3
RefImpl

Package com.atlassian.sal.api.search.query

SAL ServiceSearchQueryParserSearchQuery
JIRA 3.13YES
(JIRA 4.0)YES
ConfluenceYES
FishEye/Crucible 1.6.5YES
FishEye/Crucible 2.0YES
Crowd 2.0YES
Bamboo 2.3NO
RefImplYES

Package com.atlassian.sal.api.transaction

SAL ServiceTransactionTemplateTransactionCallback
JIRA 3.13YES
(JIRA 4.0)YES
ConfluenceYES
FishEye/Crucible 1.6.5YES
FishEye/Crucible 2.0YES
Crowd 2.0YES
Bamboo 2.3YES
RefImplYES

Package com.atlassian.sal.api.upgrade

SAL ServicePluginUpgradeManagerPluginUpgradeTask
JIRA 3.13YES
(JIRA 4.0)YES
ConfluenceYES
FishEye/Crucible 1.6.5YES
FishEye/Crucible 2.0YES
Crowd 2.0YES
Bamboo 2.3YES
RefImplYES

Packagecom.atlassian.sal.api.user

SAL ServiceUserManagerUserResolutionException
JIRA 3.13YES
(JIRA 4.0)YES
ConfluenceYES
FishEye/Crucible 1.6.5YES
FishEye/Crucible 2.0YES
Crowd 2.0YES
Bamboo 2.3YES
RefImplYES

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