Add a JIRA control module for Ansible. This version uses fetch_url rather than urllib2.

library/web_infrastructure/jira

+#!/usr/bin/python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+# (c) 2014, Steve Smith <ssmith@atlassian.com>
+# Atlassian open-source approval reference OSR-76.
+#
+# This file is part of Ansible.
+#
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+#
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+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
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+# along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+
+DOCUMENTATION = """
+module: jira
+version_added: "1.6"
+short_description: create and modify issues in a JIRA instance
+description:
+  - Create and modify issues in a JIRA instance.
+
+options:
+  uri:
+    required: true
+    description:
+      - Base URI for the JIRA instance
+
+  operation:
+    required: true
+    aliases: [ command ]
+    choices: [ create, comment, edit, fetch, transition ]
+    description:
+      - The operation to perform.
+
+  username:
+    required: true
+    description:
+      - The username to log-in with.
+
+  password:
+    required: true
+    description:
+      - The password to log-in with.
+
+  project:
+    aliases: [ prj ]
+    required: false
+    description:
+      - The project for this operation. Required for issue creation.
+
+  summary:
+    required: false
+    description:
+     - The issue summary, where appropriate.
+
+  description:
+    required: false
+    description:
+     - The issue description, where appropriate.
+
+  issuetype:
+    required: false
+    description:
+     - The issue type, for issue creation.
+
+  issue:
+    required: false
+    description:
+     - An existing issue key to operate on.
+
+  comment:
+    required: false
+    description:
+     - The comment text to add.
+
+  status:
+    required: false
+    description:
+     - The desired status; only relevant for the transition operation.
+
+  assignee:
+    required: false
+    description:
+     - Sets the assignee on create or transition operations. Note not all transitions will allow this.
+
+  fields:
+    required: false
+    description:
+     - This is a free-form data structure that can contain arbitrary data. This is passed directly to the JIRA REST API (possibly after merging with other required data, as when passed to create). See examples for more information, and the JIRA REST API for the structure required for various fields.
+
+notes:
+  - "Currently this only works with basic-auth."
+
+author: Steve Smith
+"""
+
+EXAMPLES = """
+# Create a new issue and add a comment to it:
+- name: Create an issue
+  jira: uri={{server}} username={{user}} password={{pass}}
+        project=ANS operation=create
+        summary="Example Issue" description="Created using Ansible" issuetype=Task
+  register: issue
+
+- name: Comment on issue
+  jira: uri={{server}} username={{user}} password={{pass}}
+        issue={{issue.meta.key}} operation=comment 
+        comment="A comment added by Ansible"
+
+# Assign an existing issue using edit
+- name: Assign an issue using free-form fields
+  jira: uri={{server}} username={{user}} password={{pass}}
+        issue={{issue.meta.key}} operation=edit
+        assignee=ssmith
+
+# Create an issue with an existing assignee
+- name: Create an assigned issue
+  jira: uri={{server}} username={{user}} password={{pass}}
+        project=ANS operation=create
+        summary="Assigned issue" description="Created and assigned using Ansible" 
+        issuetype=Task assignee=ssmith
+
+# Edit an issue using free-form fields
+- name: Set the labels on an issue using free-form fields
+  jira: uri={{server}} username={{user}} password={{pass}}
+        issue={{issue.meta.key}} operation=edit 
+  args: { fields: {labels: ["autocreated", "ansible"]}}
+
+- name: Set the labels on an issue, YAML version
+  jira: uri={{server}} username={{user}} password={{pass}}
+        issue={{issue.meta.key}} operation=edit 
+  args: 
+    fields: 
+      labels:
+        - "autocreated"
+        - "ansible"
+        - "yaml"
+
+# Retrieve metadata for an issue and use it to create an account
+- name: Get an issue
+  jira: uri={{server}} username={{user}} password={{pass}}
+        project=ANS operation=fetch issue="ANS-63"
+  register: issue
+
+- name: Create a unix account for the reporter
+  sudo: true
+  user: name="{{issue.meta.fields.creator.name}}" comment="{{issue.meta.fields.creator.displayName}}"
+
+# Transition an issue by target status
+- name: Close the issue
+  jira: uri={{server}} username={{user}} password={{pass}}
+        issue={{issue.meta.key}} operation=transition status="Done"
+"""
+
+import json
+import base64
+
+def request(url, user, passwd, data=None, method=None):
+    if data:
+        data = json.dumps(data)
+
+    # NOTE: fetch_url uses a password manager, which follows the
+    # standard request-then-challenge basic-auth semantics. However as
+    # JIRA allows some unauthorised operations it doesn't necessarily
+    # send the challenge, so the request occurs as the anonymous user,
+    # resulting in unexpected results. To work around this we manually
+    # inject the basic-auth header up-front to ensure that JIRA treats
+    # the requests as authorized for this user.
+    auth = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (user, passwd)).replace('\n', '')
+    response, info = fetch_url(module, url, data=data, method=method, 
+                               headers={'Content-Type':'application/json',
+                                        'Authorization':"Basic %s" % auth})
+
+    if info['status'] not in (200, 204):
+        module.fail_json(msg=info['msg'])
+
+    body = response.read()
+
+    if body:
+        return json.loads(body)
+    else:
+        return {}
+
+def post(url, user, passwd, data):
+    return request(url, user, passwd, data=data, method='POST')
+
+def put(url, user, passwd, data):
+    return request(url, user, passwd, data=data, method='PUT')
+
+def get(url, user, passwd):
+    return request(url, user, passwd)
+
+
+def create(restbase, user, passwd, params):
+    createfields = {
+        'project': { 'key': params['project'] },
+        'summary': params['summary'],
+        'description': params['description'],
+        'issuetype': { 'name': params['issuetype'] }}
+
+    # Merge in any additional or overridden fields
+    if params['fields']:
+        createfields.update(params['fields'])
+
+    data = {'fields': createfields}
+
+    url = restbase + '/issue/'
+
+    ret = post(url, user, passwd, data) 
+
+    return ret
+
+
+def comment(restbase, user, passwd, params):
+    data = {
+        'body': params['comment']
+        }
+
+    url = restbase + '/issue/' + params['issue'] + '/comment'
+
+    ret = post(url, user, passwd, data)
+
+    return ret
+
+
+def edit(restbase, user, passwd, params):
+    data = {
+        'fields': params['fields']
+        }
+
+    url = restbase + '/issue/' + params['issue']    
+
+    ret = put(url, user, passwd, data) 
+
+    return ret
+
+
+def fetch(restbase, user, passwd, params):
+    url = restbase + '/issue/' + params['issue']
+    ret = get(url, user, passwd) 
+    return ret
+
+
+def transition(restbase, user, passwd, params):
+    # Find the transition id
+    turl = restbase + '/issue/' + params['issue'] + "/transitions"
+    tmeta = get(turl, user, passwd)
+
+    target = params['status']
+    tid = None
+    for t in tmeta['transitions']:
+        if t['name'] == target:
+            tid = t['id']
+            break
+
+    if not tid:
+        raise ValueError("Failed find valid transition for '%s'" % target)
+
+    # Perform it
+    url = restbase + '/issue/' + params['issue'] + "/transitions"
+    data = { 'transition': { "id" : tid },
+             'fields': params['fields']}
+
+    ret = post(url, user, passwd, data)
+
+    return ret
+
+
+# Some parameters are required depending on the operation:
+OP_REQUIRED = dict(create=['project', 'issuetype', 'summary', 'description'],
+                   comment=['issue', 'comment'],
+                   edit=[],
+                   fetch=['issue'],
+                   transition=['status'])
+
+def main():
+
+    global module
+    module = AnsibleModule(
+        argument_spec=dict(
+            uri=dict(required=True),
+            operation=dict(choices=['create', 'comment', 'edit', 'fetch', 'transition'],
+                           aliases=['command'], required=True),
+            username=dict(required=True),
+            password=dict(required=True),
+            project=dict(),
+            summary=dict(),
+            description=dict(),
+            issuetype=dict(),
+            issue=dict(aliases=['ticket']),
+            comment=dict(),
+            status=dict(),
+            assignee=dict(),
+            fields=dict(default={})
+        ),
+        supports_check_mode=False
+    )
+
+    op = module.params['operation']
+
+    # Check we have the necessary per-operation parameters
+    missing = []
+    for parm in OP_REQUIRED[op]:
+        if not module.params[parm]:
+            missing.append(parm)
+    if missing:
+        module.fail_json(msg="Operation %s require the following missing parameters: %s" % (op, ",".join(missing)))
+
+    # Handle rest of parameters
+    uri = module.params['uri']
+    user = module.params['username']
+    passwd = module.params['password']
+    if module.params['assignee']:
+        module.params['fields']['assignee'] = { 'name': module.params['assignee'] }
+
+    if not uri.endswith('/'):
+        uri = uri+'/'
+    restbase = uri + 'rest/api/2'
+
+    # Dispatch
+    try:
+        
+        # Lookup the corresponding method for this operation. This is
+        # safe as the AnsibleModule should remove any unknown operations.
+        thismod = sys.modules[__name__]
+        method = getattr(thismod, op)
+
+        ret = method(restbase, user, passwd, module.params)
+
+    except Exception as e:
+        return module.fail_json(msg=e.message)
+
+
+    module.exit_json(changed=True, meta=ret)
+
+
+from ansible.module_utils.basic import *
+from ansible.module_utils.urls import *
+main()