List and Create Links of a WorkItem in Java Plain API RTC

Tiago Fernandez (53●5●16●19) | asked Aug 13 '13, 2:59 p.m.
edited Aug 13 '13, 3:29 p.m.

Hello, please can provide a very simple example on:

1) List Links of a given WorkItem

2) Create a link of a given WorkItem of "Related Artifacs" type.

In my code I only have the workItem:

workItem = workItemClient.findWorkItemById(workItemNumber, IWorkItem.FULL_PROFILE, new SysoutProgressMonitor())

How should I continue ?

Thanks for the help.

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Philip Smith (186●2) | answered Aug 13 '13, 7:01 p.m.
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It will look something like the following:

import com.ibm.team.links.client.ILinkManager;
import com.ibm.team.links.common.IReference;
import com.ibm.team.links.common.factory.IReferenceFactory;
import com.ibm.team.workitem.common.model.WorkItemLinkTypes
...final ILinkManager linkManager =
          (ILinkManager) repo.getClientLibrary(ILinkManager.class);
final IReference workItemRef =
          linkManager.referenceFactory().createReferenceToItem(workItemHandle);
final IReference relatedRef = IReferenceFactory.INSTANCE.createReferenceFromURI(
          relatedUri, comment);
final ILink newLink = linkManager.createLink(
          WorkItemLinkTypes.RELATED_ARTIFACT, workItemRef, relatedRef);
linkManager.saveLink(newLink, monitor);

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Tiago Fernandez commented Aug 13 '13, 8:59 p.m.

Thank you very much for the response,

I will do a try and let you know how it goes.

This seems to be how to create a link to a workItem,

Could you kindly give an example on how to list existing links of a given workItem as well?

Thank you very much.

Philip Smith commented Aug 13 '13, 9:48 p.m.

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Something like this:

final ILinkQueryPage queryPage =

linkManager.findLinksBySource(linkType, workItemRef, monitor);

final Collection<ILink> links = queryPage.getAllLinksFromHereOn();

for (final ILink l : links)

{

final IItemHandle linkHandle = (IItemHandle) l.getTargetRef().resolve();

...

}

Tiago Fernandez commented Aug 14 '13, 10:57 a.m.

Thanks again for the response.

I like the simplicity of your responses :) , that is exactly what I need.
In the code above, how should I do to println the link that has the linkHandle ?

Also I take advanyage and I'd like to do another question not related to the title, how to set a value (for example an integer or string value) to an attribute of a workItem? (I already have the workItem and the Attribute in my code).

Thanks a lot.

Philip Smith commented Aug 14 '13, 1:08 p.m.

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Depends on what you want to print. IReference, the result of l.getTargetRef(), has a createURI method which is probably the best way to get the value of the target of the link in this situation (I think my last example might get a ClassCastException since the target came from a URI). The URI should be easy to print.

I've not tried modifying workitems, but I think it requires creating a working copy of the workitem, modifying the working copy, then saving it.

Tiago Fernandez commented Aug 14 '13, 3:11 p.m.

I am trying to show the url that has link of type related artifacts of the workItem. The code I have is:

def linkManager = (ILinkManager) repo.getClientLibrary(ILinkManager.class)
  def workItemRef = linkManager.referenceFactory().createReferenceToItem(workItem)


  def queryPage = linkManager.findLinksBySource(WorkItemLinkTypes.RELATED_ARTIFACT, workItemRef, new SysoutProgressMonitor());
  def links = queryPage.getAllLinksFromHereOn();
  for(ILink l : links){
      println("Link is: " + l.getLinkTypeId() + ", url: " + l.getThisEndpointDescriptor(l.getTargetRef()).getIcon())

}

But the print of the last for is showing another information, and I don't know what to put there. How should I use that println to show the URL and the comment of those related artifacts links?

Thanks for the help.

Philip Smith commented Aug 14 '13, 3:47 p.m.

JAZZ DEVELOPER

I was thinking: l.getTargetRef().createURI()

Philip Smith commented Aug 14 '13, 3:48 p.m.

JAZZ DEVELOPER

For the comment: .getTargetRef().getComment()

Tiago Fernandez commented Aug 14 '13, 4:39 p.m.

You rock!!!! :)

All your responses lead me to the solution. Now my code works.

I will mark this topic as Accepted Answer.

Thank you very very much.

LUIZ DE ALMEIDA commented Jan 29 '15, 8:15 a.m.

Tiago,
Could you share your code that lists the related workitens of a given workitem?
If you could, I will thank you so much.

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0	permanent link Benjamin Maier (33●3●9) \| answered Mar 28 '17, 5:54 a.m. Hello Tiago, Can you share the code please? I have the same problem. Thanks!

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