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⇱ Working with Jira Data in LINQPad

Working with Jira Data in LINQPad

👁 Jerod Johnson
Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism
Execute LINQ queries to Jira data in LINQPad.

The CData ADO.NET Provider for Jira enables you to use standard ADO.NET interfaces like LINQ and the Entity Framework to work with Jira data. This article will demonstrate the process of establishing a connection from LINQPad and executing LINQ queries.

About Jira Data Integration

CData simplifies access and integration of live Jira data. Our customers leverage CData connectivity to:

  • Gain bi-directional access to their Jira objects like issues, projects, and workflows.
  • Use SQL stored procedures to perform functional actions like changing issues status, creating custom fields, download or uploading an attachment, modifying or retrieving time tracking settings, and more.
  • Authenticate securely using a variety of methods, including username and password, OAuth, personal access token, API token, Crowd or OKTA SSO, LDAP, and more.

Most users leverage CData solutions to integrate Jira data with their database or data warehouse, whether that's using CData Sync directly or relying on CData's compatibility with platforms like SSIS or Azure Data Factory. Others are looking to get analytics and reporting on live Jira data from preferred analytics tools like Tableau and Power BI.

Learn more about how customers are seamlessly connecting to their Jira data to solve business problems from our blog: Drivers in Focus: Collaboration Tools.


Getting Started


Create the Data Model

After downloading and installing both the provider and LINQPad, create a new class library project within Visual Studio.

See the help documentation for a guide to setting up an EF 6 project to use the provider.

  1. Right-click your project and click Add -> New Item -> ADO.NET Entity Data Model. In the resulting dialog, select Code First from database. Click New Connection and specify the connection string options in the resulting wizard.

    To connect to JIRA, provide the User and Password. Additionally, provide the Url; for example, https://yoursitename.atlassian.net.

    Below is a typical connection string: 

    User=admin;Password=123abc;Url=https://yoursitename.atlassian.net;
    👁 The required connection properties in the Entity Data Model Configuration Wizard. (JSON is shown.)

  2. Select the desired tables and views and click Finish to create the data model.

    👁 The last step of the Entity Data Model Configuration Wizard, where tables are imported into the entity model.
  3. Build the project. The generated files can be used to create the Jira connection in LINQPad.

Connect to Jira Data in LINQPad

After you have obtained the required connection properties and created the data model assembly, follow the steps below to start using the data model in LINQPad.

  1. Open LINQPad and click Add Connection.

  2. Select the "Use a typed data context from your own assembly" option.

  3. Select Entity Framework DbContext.

    👁 The Choose Data Context dialog.

  4. Click Browse next to the Path to Custom Assembly box and browse to your project folder. Browse to the .dll or .exe under the bin folder.

  5. Select the name of the DbContext.
  6. If you saved your connection string in App.Config, specify the path to the App.config.
👁 The next step of the wizard, where the data model assembly is imported.

You can now query Jira data through LINQPad. For examples of the supported LINQ queries, see the "LINQ and Entity Framework" chapter in the help documentation.

👁 The results of a query in LINQPad. (JSON is shown.)

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