Building Forest Specification

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Building Forest Specification

A forest specification, or ForestSpec, is a way for your code to identify the forest that you'd like to access. The forest may come from different sources – it could be a structure, it could be a transformed structure, it could be a result of query or some other types of forest source.

So the first step before you read or update a forest is to create an instance of ForestSpec. Here are some examples of how you can do that.

Desired forest

ForestSpec expression

Desired forest

ForestSpec expression

Base Content

Structure #123

ForestSpec.structure(123)

Result of a JQL query

ForestSpec.sQuery("jql", "priority = Blocker")

Result of a text query

ForestSpec.sQuery("text", "text to find")

Adjusted Content

Structure #123, sorted by Priority

ForestSpec.structure(123).transform( CoreStructureGenerators.SORTER_ATTRIBUTE, ImmutableMap.of( "attribute", (Object) ImmutableMap.of("id", IssueFieldConstants.PRIORITY, "format", "order") "desc", true ) );

Structure #123, skeleton only (without dynamic content)

ForestSpec.skeleton(123)

Structure #123, with title row

ForestSpec.skeleton(123).withTitle()


More details are available in Javadocs for ForestSpec.