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Thomas Fritz (111) | asked Nov 17 '09, 7:18 p.m.
Hi,

I was wondering if there is a way to query for all modifications to work items, such as the addition of a new comment or the change of the status in a particular week. The idea is to find all events that were displayed in the event log section of the team concert view in a particular week. The best would be if that includes the build notifications and the modifications to work items (and possibly the changes to change sets).

I couldn't find out if that information is stored anywhere explicitly in the repository and how I could query for it. What I tried so far is using the ChangeEventQueryModel to query for changes to a period of time using the code pasted below using RTC 1.0.1. However, this does not seem to give me the proper results as there are a lot less results as expected, and I am not quite sure what I am doing wrong.
Are the change events actually stored properly and I can query for them no matter how far back in time I query?
I assume that I could go through all work items, get all states and see when the modification date of the state is, but that seems fairly slow and I then would also have to find a way to find the build notifications, so I was hoping to be able to use the change event query. (I also tried the code below using an IDataQuery instead of an IItemQuery, but it still doesn't seem to be correct, especially if I go back further in time.)

I would be very grateful for suggestions.



Calendar instance= Calendar.getInstance();
instance.set(2009, 5, 7,0,0);
Timestamp after= new Timestamp(instance.getTimeInMillis());
instance.set(2009, 5, 11,0,0);
Timestamp before= new Timestamp(instance.getTimeInMillis());

ChangeEventQueryModel changeModel= ChangeEventQueryModel.ROOT; IItemQuery changeQuery= IItemQuery.FACTORY.newInstance(changeModel);
changeQuery.setResultLimit(100);
IPredicate predicate2=
changeModel.eventTime()._gtOrEq(changeQuery.newDateTimeArg());
predicate2=
predicate2._and(changeModel.eventTime()._lt(changeQuery.newDateTimeArg()));
changeQuery.filter(predicate2);
changeQuery.orderByDsc(changeModel.eventTime());

List<Object> params= new ArrayList<Object>(5);
ItemQueryIterator<IChangeEventHandle> query3= null; params.add(after);
params.add(before); query3= new
ItemQueryIterator<IChangeEventHandle>(getAuditableCommon(), changeQuery,
params.toArray(), 1000);

try {
while (query3.hasNext(null)) {
IChangeEventHandle next= (IChangeEventHandle)
query3.next(null);
IItem fetchCompleteItem=
fRepository.itemManager().fetchCompleteItem(next, IItemManager.DEFAULT, new
NullProgressMonitor());
System.out.println("Item: "+fetchCompleteItem);
}
} catch (TeamRepositoryException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
}

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Geoffrey Clemm (30.1k33035) | answered Nov 17 '09, 11:53 p.m.
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER
I'll let the work item team comment in detail, but note that some of
what you are looking for are not changes to the state of the work item,
but rather changes to objects that are related to the work item. In
particular, a change set is not part of the work item (it is a separate
object), and therefore a modification to a change set would not result
in a modification to a work item that refers to it. Similarly, the
creation of a reference from a build to a work item does not change the
work item (and therefore results in no new entries in the change history
of the work item). There is a work item requesting that the addition and
removal of a link to a work item appear in the change history of that
work item, but I believe that is not currently the case.

Cheers,
Geoff

fritz wrote:
Hi,

I was wondering if there is a way to query for all modifications to
work items, such as the addition of a new comment or the change of
the status in a particular week. The idea is to find all events that
were displayed in the event log section of the team concert view in a
particular week. The best would be if that includes the build
notifications and the modifications to work items (and possibly the
changes to change sets).

I couldn't find out if that information is stored anywhere explicitly
in the repository and how I could query for it. What I tried so far
is using the ChangeEventQueryModel to query for changes to a period
of time using the code pasted below using RTC 1.0.1. However, this
does not seem to give me the proper results as there are a lot less
results as expected, and I am not quite sure what I am doing wrong.
Are the change events actually stored properly and I can query for
them no matter how far back in time I query?
I assume that I could go through all work items, get all states and
see when the modification date of the state is, but that seems fairly
slow and I then would also have to find a way to find the build
notifications, so I was hoping to be able to use the change event
query. (I also tried the code below using an IDataQuery instead of an
IItemQuery, but it still doesn't seem to be correct, especially if I
go back further in time.)

I would be very grateful for suggestions.



Calendar instance= Calendar.getInstance();
instance.set(2009, 5, 7,0,0);
Timestamp after= new Timestamp(instance.getTimeInMillis());
instance.set(2009, 5, 11,0,0);
Timestamp before= new Timestamp(instance.getTimeInMillis());

ChangeEventQueryModel changeModel= ChangeEventQueryModel.ROOT;
IItemQuery changeQuery= IItemQuery.FACTORY.newInstance(changeModel);
changeQuery.setResultLimit(100);
IPredicate predicate2=
changeModel.eventTime()._gtOrEq(changeQuery.newDateTimeArg());
predicate2=
predicate2._and(changeModel.eventTime()._lt(changeQuery.newDateTimeArg()));
changeQuery.filter(predicate2);
changeQuery.orderByDsc(changeModel.eventTime());

List<Object> params= new ArrayList<Object>(5);
ItemQueryIterator<IChangeEventHandle> query3= null;
params.add(after);
params.add(before); query3= new
ItemQueryIterator<IChangeEventHandle>(getAuditableCommon(),
changeQuery,
params.toArray(), 1000);

try {
while (query3.hasNext(null)) {
IChangeEventHandle next= (IChangeEventHandle)
query3.next(null);
IItem fetchCompleteItem=
fRepository.itemManager().fetchCompleteItem(next,
IItemManager.DEFAULT, new
NullProgressMonitor());
System.out.println("Item:
"+fetchCompleteItem);
}
} catch (TeamRepositoryException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
}

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Work Item & UI Commons Team (1.3k1) | answered Nov 18 '09, 5:53 a.m.
You have to keep in mind that change events are removed from the
database in a certain period (I think the default is 3 weeks) and as
such you will not be able to go back in time much. This is configurable
in the Admin properties though as far as I remember.

Otherwise, querying on change-events should bring you there, because
feeds use the same (generating news entries from change events).


Hi,

I was wondering if there is a way to query for all modifications to
work items, such as the addition of a new comment or the change of
the status in a particular week. The idea is to find all events that
were displayed in the event log section of the team concert view in a
particular week. The best would be if that includes the build
notifications and the modifications to work items (and possibly the
changes to change sets).

I couldn't find out if that information is stored anywhere explicitly
in the repository and how I could query for it. What I tried so far
is using the ChangeEventQueryModel to query for changes to a period
of time using the code pasted below using RTC 1.0.1. However, this
does not seem to give me the proper results as there are a lot less
results as expected, and I am not quite sure what I am doing wrong.
Are the change events actually stored properly and I can query for
them no matter how far back in time I query?
I assume that I could go through all work items, get all states and
see when the modification date of the state is, but that seems fairly
slow and I then would also have to find a way to find the build
notifications, so I was hoping to be able to use the change event
query. (I also tried the code below using an IDataQuery instead of an
IItemQuery, but it still doesn't seem to be correct, especially if I
go back further in time.)

I would be very grateful for suggestions.



Calendar instance= Calendar.getInstance();
instance.set(2009, 5, 7,0,0);
Timestamp after= new Timestamp(instance.getTimeInMillis());
instance.set(2009, 5, 11,0,0);
Timestamp before= new Timestamp(instance.getTimeInMillis());

ChangeEventQueryModel changeModel= ChangeEventQueryModel.ROOT;
IItemQuery changeQuery= IItemQuery.FACTORY.newInstance(changeModel);
changeQuery.setResultLimit(100);
IPredicate predicate2=
changeModel.eventTime()._gtOrEq(changeQuery.newDateTimeArg());
predicate2=
predicate2._and(changeModel.eventTime()._lt(changeQuery.newDateTimeArg()));
changeQuery.filter(predicate2);
changeQuery.orderByDsc(changeModel.eventTime());

List<Object> params= new ArrayList<Object>(5);
ItemQueryIterator<IChangeEventHandle> query3= null;
params.add(after);
params.add(before); query3= new
ItemQueryIterator<IChangeEventHandle>(getAuditableCommon(),
changeQuery,
params.toArray(), 1000);

try {
while (query3.hasNext(null)) {
IChangeEventHandle next= (IChangeEventHandle)
query3.next(null);
IItem fetchCompleteItem=
fRepository.itemManager().fetchCompleteItem(next,
IItemManager.DEFAULT, new
NullProgressMonitor());
System.out.println("Item:
"+fetchCompleteItem);
}
} catch (TeamRepositoryException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
}



--
Benjamin Pasero
Work Item & UI Commons Team

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Thomas Fritz (111) | answered Nov 18 '09, 2:49 p.m.
Hi Geoff and Ben,

thanks a lot for your quick responses and the good clarifications. It helps a lot to know that the change-events are not stored long-term, as that means that I can stop following that path.
What I am trying to do is to recreate the events that occurred in a particular week but more than 3 weeks ago. From what I understand of your comments, it seems that I will have to go through change sets, work items and builds separately and query what happened to them in the week I am looking for to reconstruct if there was a change event in the event log of the team viewer and what the change consisted of.
For change sets this is fine as I can query for the day of modification and then do a structural diff on the before and after version. For work items it seems that I will have to go through all of them and then for each work item find all of its states and see if any of those states has a modified date that falls within that week and then somehow reconstruct what was changed and probably something similar for builds, but I haven't looked into the latter.

Does that sound reasonable to you or is there a better way of doing it?

Thanks again,
Thomas

I haven't looked into build reports yet, but probably one of the

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Work Item & UI Commons Team (1.3k1) | answered Nov 19 '09, 9:38 a.m.
fritz wrote:
Hi Geoff and Ben,

thanks a lot for your quick responses and the good clarifications. It
helps a lot to know that the change-events are not stored long-term,
as that means that I can stop following that path.
What I am trying to do is to recreate the events that occurred in a
particular week but more than 3 weeks ago. From what I understand of
your comments, it seems that I will have to go through change sets,
work items and builds separately and query what happened to them in
the week I am looking for to reconstruct if there was a change event
in the event log of the team viewer and what the change consisted of.

For change sets this is fine as I can query for the day of
modification and then do a structural diff on the before and after
version. For work items it seems that I will have to go through all
of them and then for each work item find all of its states and see if
any of those states has a modified date that falls within that week
and then somehow reconstruct what was changed and probably something
similar for builds, but I haven't looked into the latter.

Does that sound reasonable to you or is there a better way of doing
it?

Yes we do that for the work item history (the history tab on a work
item). We resolve all previous states and compute a diff to show the
full history (cant use changeevents because of the timeout). See
com.ibm.team.workitem.ide.ui.internal.editor.presentations.HistoryPart
and how it computes the history.


Thanks again,
Thomas

I haven't looked into build reports yet, but probably one of the



--
Benjamin Pasero
Work Item & UI Commons Team

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Thomas Fritz (111) | answered Nov 20 '09, 12:47 p.m.
Thanks a lot, that was really helpful.

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