Get teamAreaList attribute with RTC Java API

Gustavo,

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Code I have used looks like below. It casts the ItemList attribute value to a collection and then iterates the enclosed handles.

	private String convertItemListAttributeType(IWorkItem workItem,
			IAttribute iAttribute, Object value) {

		String displayValue = "ITEM LIST: " + iAttribute.getAttributeType();
		if (null != value && value instanceof Collection) {
			Collection values = (Collection) value;
			for (Iterator iterator = values.iterator(); iterator.hasNext();) {
				Object object = (Object) iterator.next();
				if (null != object && object instanceof IItemHandle) {
					IItemHandle itemHandle = (IItemHandle) object;
					// do something
					// for example resolve the item and identify it as a teamArea.
					return itemHandle.toString();
				} else if (null != object && object instanceof IItemHandle) {
					IItem item = (IItem) object;
					return item.toString();
				}
				displayValue += " " + object.toString();
			}
		}
		return displayValue + " Item List Not yet implemented";
	}

 

 Last time I tried, I casted it to List and then accessed the element and casted that to the desired Object.

I do something similar:
        IProjectArea projectArea = rtcm.getProjectArea();
        String name = "";
        if (projectArea != null) {
            List teamAreas = projectArea.getTeamAreas();
            ITeamAreaHierarchy hierarchy = projectArea.getTeamAreaHierarchy();
            for (int i=0;i<teamAreas.size();i++) {
                String ILNames = "";
                String parentName = "Not Yet Set";
                ITeamAreaHandle teamAreaHandle = (ITeamAreaHandle)teamAreas.get(i);
                ITeamAreaHandle teamParent = hierarchy.getParent(teamAreaHandle);
                if (teamParent != null) {
                    ITeamArea parentTeamArea = (ITeamArea)rtcm.getRepository().itemManager().fetchCompleteItem(teamParent,0,null);
                    parentName = parentTeamArea.getName();
                }
                else {
                    //System.out.println("I have a null parent for " + teamAreaHandle.toString());
                }
                ITeamArea teamArea = (ITeamArea)rtcm.getRepository().itemManager().fetchCompleteItem(teamAreaHandle,0,null);
                if (!teamArea.isArchived()) {
                        ITeamData teamData = teamArea.getTeamData();
                        name = teamArea.getName();
                        IDescription desc=  teamArea.getDescription();
                        IContent content = desc.getDetails();
                        String descriptionString="";
                        if (content != null) {
                                ByteArrayOutputStream stream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
                                rtcm.getRepository().contentManager().retrieveContent(content, stream,null);
                                try {
                                    descriptionString = stream.toString(HttpConstants.ENCODING_UTF8);
                                } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException exception) {
                                    descriptionString = stream.toString();
                                }
                            }
.....


I do alot more "stuff" below that, but this should at least give you an idea of what I do to get the name and description. 

Susa