PowerShell Scripting to Replicate Jira Assets Data to MySQL

The CData Cmdlets for Jira Assets offer live access to Jira Assets data from within PowerShell. Using PowerShell scripts, you can easily automate regular tasks like data replication. This article will walk through using the CData Cmdlets for Jira Assets and the CData Cmdlets for MySQL in PowerShell to replicate Jira Assets data to a MySQL database.

After obtaining the needed connection properties, accessing Jira Assets data in PowerShell and preparing for replication consists of four basic steps.

Jira Assets supports connecting and authenticating via the APIToken.

To generate an API token:

1. Log in to your Atlassian account.
2. Navigate to Security < Create and manage API Token < Create API Token.

Atlassian generates and then displays the API token.

After you have generated the API token, set these parameters:

• AuthScheme: APIToken.
• User: The login of the authenticating user.
• APIToken: The API token you just generated.

You are now ready to connect and authenticate to Jira Assets.

Collecting Jira Assets Data

1. Install the module:

   Install-Module JiraAssetsCmdlets

2. Connect to Jira Assets:

   $jiraassets = Connect-JiraAssets -User $User -APIToken $APIToken -Url $Url

3. Retrieve the data from a specific resource:

   $data = Select-JiraAssets -Connection $jiraassets -Table "Objects"

   You can also use the Invoke-JiraAssets cmdlet to execute pure SQL-92 statements:

   $data = Invoke-JiraAssets -Connection $jiraassets -Query 'SELECT * FROM Objects WHERE Label = @Label' -Params @{'@Label'='SYD-1'}

4. Save a list of the column names from the returned data.

   $columns = ($data | Get-Member -MemberType NoteProperty | Select-Object -Property Name).Name

Inserting Jira Assets Data into the MySQL Database

With the data and column names collected, you are ready to replicate the data into a MySQL database.

1. Install the module:

   Install-Module MySQLCmdlets

2. Connect to MySQL, using the server address and port of the MySQL server, valid user credentials, and a specific database with the table in which the data will be replicated:

   $mysql = Connect-MySQL -User $User -Password $Password -Database $Database -Server $Server -Port $Port

3. Loop through the Jira Assets data, store the values, and use the Add-MySQL cmdlet to insert the data into the MySQL database, one row at a time. In this example, the table will need to have the same name as the Jira Assets resource (Objects) and to exist in the database.

   $data | % { $row = $_ $values = @() $columns | % { $col = $_ $values += $row.$($col) } Add-MySQL -Connection $mysql -Table "Objects" -Columns $columns -Values $values }

You have now replicated your Jira Assets data to a MySQL database. This gives you freedom to work with Jira Assets data in the same way that you work with other MySQL tables, whether that is performing analytics, building reports, or other business functions.

Notes

• Once you have connected to Jira Assets and MySQL in PowerShell, you can pipe command results to perform the replication in a single line:

  Select-JiraAssets -Connection $jiraassets -Table "Objects" | % { $row = $_ $values = @() $columns | % { $col = $_ $values += $row.$($col) } Add-MySQL -Connection $mysql -Table "Objects" -Columns $columns -Values $values }

• If you wish to replicate the Jira Assets data to another database using another PowerShell module, you will want to exclude the Columns, Connection, and Table columns from the data returned by the Select-JiraAssets cmdlet since those columns are used to help pipe data from one CData cmdlet to another:

  $columns = ($data | Get-Member -MemberType NoteProperty | Select-Object -Property Name).Name | ? {$_ -NotIn @('Columns','Connection','Table')}