Hi
I have developed a tool for synchronizing the work item attributes. For that I am using the class listed at the end of this post.

If I run my (plain java) application that synchronizes work items in order to show up some new attributes it works fine if I run the tool and then open the browser for looking at the work items. That means the new work item attributes are appearing then in the browser.

But this is not what I want/need. I am running the below listed operation on a bunch of work items. In the same application session I want to access the newly appearing attributes. But these attributes are not available via API. When I ask the project area for the new attributes they are found. But when I then fetch the synchronized work items and call IWorkItem.hasAttribute(xyz) the new attributes are not found. I could imagine that the work item objet ct (before the sync) is somehow cached and then returned instead of work item with the new custom attributes.

Code for running the work item attribute synch:

import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IProgressMonitor;

import com.ibm.team.repository.common.TeamRepositoryException;
import com.ibm.team.workitem.client.IWorkItemClient;
import com.ibm.team.workitem.client.WorkItemOperation;
import com.ibm.team.workitem.client.WorkItemWorkingCopy;
import com.ibm.team.workitem.common.model.IWorkItem;
import com.ibm.team.workitem.common.model.IWorkItemType;

public class SynchronizeWorkItemOperation extends WorkItemOperation {

  private IWorkItemClient fWorkItemClient = null;

  /**
   * Parameterised constructor.
   *
   * @param workItemClient , {@link IWorkItemClient} instance , must not be null
   */
  public SynchronizeWorkItemOperation(final IWorkItemClient workItemClient) {
    super("Synchronize Attribute Schema of Work Items", IWorkItem.FULL_PROFILE);
    this.fWorkItemClient = workItemClient;
  }

  @Override
  public void execute(final WorkItemWorkingCopy workingCopy, final IProgressMonitor mon)
      throws TeamRepositoryException {
    IWorkItem workItem = workingCopy.getWorkItem();

    IWorkItemType type =
        this.fWorkItemClient.findWorkItemType(workItem.getProjectArea(), workItem.getWorkItemType(), mon);
    if (type != null) {
      this.fWorkItemClient.updateWorkItemType(workItem, type, type, mon);
    }
  }
}

this.fWorkItemClient.updateWorkItemType(workItem, type, type, mon);