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OSLC REST API: How to set a "drop down list" attribute programmatically, for ex: "Severity", for a RTC WI.


Khader Basha (1123) | asked Sep 16 '15, 8:48 a.m.
edited Sep 18 '15, 9:02 a.m.

Below is the code used to construct Work item programmatically. 

     String sStartOSLC = "<oslc_cm:ChangeRequest";
  String sEndOSLC = "</oslc_cm:ChangeRequest>";
        String xmlNS =  " xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\"   xmlns:rtc_cm=\"https://jazz.net/xmlns/prod/jazz/rtc/cm/1.0/\"  xmlns:rdf=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\"  xmlns:oslc_cm=\"http://open-services.net/xmlns/cm/1.0/\" xmlns:oslc_cmx=\"http://open-services.net/ns/cm-x#\">";
        String sType = "<rtc_cm:type rdf:resource=\""+sType_data+"\"/>";       
        String sTitle = "<dc:title>"+"A New Defect for OSLC_5"+"</dc:title>";
        String sSeverity = "<oslc_cmx:severity>"+"severity.literal.l3"+"</oslc_cmx:severity>";       
        String sPriority = "<oslc_cmx:priority>"+"priority.literal.l3"+"</oslc_cmx:priority>";
        String sProjectArea = "<dc:projectarea>"+"Test RTC (Project)"+"</dc:projectarea>";
        String steamArea = "<dc:teamarea>"+"Test RTC (Project)"+"</dc:teamarea>";
        String sDescrption = "<dc:description>"+"OSLC Rest Service Test Defect Creation_5"+"</dc:description>";       
              
          String sOslcXML = sStartOSLC+xmlNS+sTitle+sType+sSeverity+sPriority+sProjectArea+steamArea+sDescrption+sEndOSLC;
        HttpEntity myEntity = new StringEntity(sOslcXML);
  httppost.setEntity(myEntity);

Using the above code I am able to create a workitem programmatically. The problem is only Text area fields like Title, Description are populated but it could not populate Drop down values like Severity,

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Donald Nong (14.5k414) | answered Sep 27 '15, 11:19 p.m.
You need to understand what these dropdown fields really are in order to update them correctly using OSLC. "Severity" is an enumeration, and FiledAgainst is a category, for both the value has to be the full resource URL. You'd better do a GET first and examine the response body carefully before doing a PUT or POST. Go through the tutorial first and always refer back to the wiki.
https://jazz.net/library/article/1001
https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/WorkItemAPIsForOSLCCM20

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Khader Basha commented Sep 28 '15, 6:12 a.m.

Thank you Donald.

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