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Fatla 777
(26●3●7●12) May 13 '13, 8:46 a.m.
 Hello,
 I am trying to set the value of "Discussion" at work item pragmatically.

I managed to set the "Description" attribute but when I tried to set the Discussion I got null pointer exception :

                IWorkItemClient workItemClient= (IWorkItemClient)repository.getClientLibrary(IWorkItemClient.class);
 IWorkItemWorkingCopyManager manager= workItemClient.getWorkItemWorkingCopyManager();
 manager.connect(workItem, IWorkItem.SMALL_PROFILE, SysoutProgressMonitor.getMonitor());
 WorkItemWorkingCopy wc= manager.getWorkingCopy(workItem);
 
  IProgressMonitor monitor = SysoutProgressMonitor.getMonitor();
  IWorkItemClient service = (IWorkItemClient) repository.getClientLibrary(IWorkItemClient.class);

        IAttribute discussionAttribute = service.findAttribute(projectArea, "discussion", monitor);//Here I got  a null "discussionAttribute"?

   wc.getWorkItem().setValue(discussionAttribute, "New Value for Discussion");

Any ideas!

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sam detweiler
(12.5k●6●195●201) May 13 '13, 10:40 a.m.
yeh, its id is "internalComments".. don't know why it doesn't respond to Comments

see my sample dump all attributes code here , second post

https://jazz.net/forum/questions/94776/assertionfailedexception-problem-with-getting-the-values-of-attributes


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Fatla 777
May 13 '13, 11:04 a.m.
Thanks i got the comments attribute... um trying now to add a comment to it.

Fatla 777
May 13 '13, 12:45 p.m.
When I tried to set the new comment,everything goes right However,when I open my work item to find the updates,nothing is added!

Fatla 777
May 13 '13, 12:46 p.m.
 IComments comments=workItem.getWorkItem().getComments();    IAttribute commentsAttr =  service.findAttribute(projectArea, "internalComments", monitor);  

Fatla 777
May 13 '13, 1:12 p.m.
List commentList=new ArrayList();  commentList.add(comments.getContents()[0]);//POC  commentList.add(comments.getContents()[0]); //POC workItem.getWorkItem().setValue(commentsAttr, commentList); 

sam detweiler
May 13 '13, 2:11 p.m.
and then.. you have to SAVE the workitem I 'think' its like this in your sample wc.save(IProgressMonitor p);

Fatla 777
May 13 '13, 2:34 p.m.
I already had this line ... but I think the issue in that line: wc.getWorkItem().setValue(commentsAttr, commentList); For some reason when I removed it ,it works :) Merci Sam :) 

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sam detweiler
(12.5k●6●195●201) edited
May 13 '13, 8:54 a.m.
discussion is not an attribute

the field is called comments

<attributeDefinition id="com.ibm.team.workitem.attribute.comments" name="Comments" type="comments"/>

it is an array (IComments) of comment objects. (IComment)

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Fatla 777
(26●3●7●12) edited
May 13 '13, 9:06 a.m.
Being a newbie to RTC-API:
-How did you get this xml definition!
-I noticed that "Disccusion" has attributedefinition  .. so it is an attribute,isn't it
-How do I add a comment to its list!

Thanks Sam.

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sam detweiler
(12.5k●6●195●201) May 13 '13, 9:11 a.m.
for the 'how', download the java doc

the xml - I edited the process config, and found the comments attribute
there is no 'discussion' attribute.. (at least not in the out of the box objects) if it is a custom object, then you would have to use the 'id' value


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Fatla 777
May 13 '13, 9:40 a.m.
I tried to fetch the comments by this way but I received a null object:! IAttribute attribute = service.findAttribute(projectArea, "comments", monitor); 

Fatla 777
May 13 '13, 9:49 a.m.
I found this at my config: <section id="com.ibm.team.workitem.web.inline.section.discussion">        <presentation id="com.ibm.team.workitem.presentation.discussion" kind="com.ibm.team.workitem.kind.internal.discussion">            <property key="hideIfCreation" value="true"/>        </presentation>    </section> How can I set it programatically! 

Fatla 777
May 13 '13, 10:16 a.m.
I tried the following but I still get null !  Attribute commentAttribute= service.findAttribute(projectArea, "com.ibm.team.workitem.attribute.comments", monitor);

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Fatla 777
(26●3●7●12) May 13 '13, 2:42 p.m.
This is the final resolution and it works :)
Thanks to Sam.

IWorkItemClient workItemClient= (IWorkItemClient)repository.getClientLibrary(IWorkItemClient.class);
IWorkItemWorkingCopyManager manager= workItemClient.getWorkItemWorkingCopyManager();
manager.connect(workItem, IWorkItem.SMALL_PROFILE, SysoutProgressMonitor.getMonitor());
WorkItemWorkingCopy wc= manager.getWorkingCopy(workItem);
IAttribute commentsAttr =  findAttribute(repository, projectArea, "internalComments");
IComments comments= wc.getWorkItem().getComments();
IComment comment= comments.createComment( repository.loggedInContributor(),
XMLString.createFromPlainText( "Aloo from Mars"));

comments.append(comment); 

wc.save(null);

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