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Chris Devine (61●2) | asked Jul 23 '10, 2:41 a.m.

Hello,

We have a schema where a parent asset represents a release and it has many related assets which are components of the system for a given release.

Using the RAM custom ANT library I'd like to be able to download the latest version of a component asset by specifying the parent asset GUID (or better still by name and version) and also the name of a related component asset. I've looked through the RAM ANT APIs and this doesn't seem to be possible currently. The search element of the download task doesn't seem to give me a way to specify the relationship.

Should I write my own ANT task to perform this specialized query and return a GUID that I could then use in the download task?

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Eric Bordeau (276●3●2) | answered Oct 03 '11, 9:58 a.m.
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If you give the search an ID, you should be able to use the property helper to get the assets and GUIDs. (Note that the following script won't work as-is. I left out a lot for brevity's sake.)

&lt;ram&#58;propertyHelper /&gt;

&lt;ram&#58;download&gt;

     &lt;ram&#58;search id=&quot;mySearch&quot; name=&quot;My Asset&quot; version=&quot;1.0&quot; /&gt;

&lt;/ram&#58;download&gt;

&lt;echo message=&quot;GUID&#58; $&#123;mySearch.assets&#91;0&#93;.GUID&#125;&quot; /&gt;

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Bilal Ahmed (56●1●1) | answered Oct 04 '11, 3:38 a.m.

Thanks Eric. But as expected the code didnt work. I am still trying to work out the internal referencing of the assests.

The following code didnt work either:

&lt;ram&#58;propertyHelper /&gt;

&lt;ram&#58;download destdir=&quot;$&#123;lib.dir&#125;&quot; server=&quot;ramServer&quot; extract=&quot;true&quot; overwrite=&quot;true&quot;&gt;

&lt;ram&#58;search id=&quot;mySearch&quot; name=&quot;$&#123;ram.asset.name&#125;&quot; version=&quot;1.0&quot; /&gt;

&lt;/ram&#58;download&gt;

&lt;echo message=&quot;GUID&#58; $&#123;mySearch.assets&#91;0&#93;.assetAttributes&#91;0&#93;.name&#125;&quot; /&gt;&lt;echo&gt;

I am not sure how to reference the assets within the search result.

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Rich Kulp (3.6k●3●8) | answered Oct 04 '11, 9:16 a.m.
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echo message="GUID:
${mySearch.assets.assetAttributes.name}"
/><echo

That's not the guid. That's the name of the first attribute (if there is
one, this could actually be an error because there may not be any
attributes).

If you said that:

<echo>

doesn't give you the guid, then what did it show?

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Rich Kulp
Rational Asset Manager developer

0	permanent link Eric Bordeau (276●3●2) \| answered Oct 04 '11, 10:40 a.m. JAZZ DEVELOPER Sorry, the echo part was wrong. Try this: <ram:propertyHelper /> <ram:download> <ram:search id="results" name="My Asset" version="1.0" /> </ram:download> <echo message="GUID: ${results[0].GUID}" />

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Bilal Ahmed (56●1●1) | answered Oct 05 '11, 2:45 a.m.

echo message="GUID:
${mySearch.assets.assetAttributes.name}"
/><echo

Hi Rich,
The following prints out a list of all the attributes associated with an asset.


&lt;echo message=&quot;Asset Attribute&#58; $&#123;results&#91;0&#93;.assetAttributes&#91;1&#93;.name&#125;&quot; /&gt;

&lt;echo message=&quot;Asset Attribute&#58; $&#123;results&#91;0&#93;.assetAttributes&#91;2&#93;.name&#125;&quot; /&gt;

&lt;echo message=&quot;Asset Attribute&#58; $&#123;results&#91;0&#93;.assetAttributes&#91;3&#93;.name&#125;&quot; /&gt;

&lt;echo message=&quot;Asset Attribute&#58; $&#123;results&#91;0&#93;.assetAttributes&#91;4&#93;.name&#125;&quot; /&gt;

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Bilal Ahmed (56●1●1) | answered Oct 05 '11, 2:56 a.m.

Sorry, the echo part was wrong. Try this:

&lt;ram&#58;propertyHelper /&gt;

&lt;ram&#58;download&gt;

     &lt;ram&#58;search id=&quot;results&quot; name=&quot;My Asset&quot; version=&quot;1.0&quot; /&gt;

&lt;/ram&#58;download&gt;

&lt;echo message=&quot;GUID&#58; $&#123;results&#91;0&#93;.GUID&#125;&quot; /&gt;

Thanks Eric, the code works. I can now retrieve the GUID from the search results.


&lt;ram&#58;propertyHelper /&gt;

&lt;ram&#58;download destdir=&quot;$&#123;lib.dir&#125;&quot; server=&quot;ramServer&quot; extract=&quot;true&quot; overwrite=&quot;true&quot;&gt;

&lt;ram&#58;search id=&quot;results&quot; query=&quot;name&#58;&#40;$&#123;ram.asset.name&#125;&#41; state&#58;&#40;approved&#41; /&gt;

&lt;/ram&#58;download&gt;

&lt;echo message=&quot;Name&#58;  $&#123;results&#91;0&#93;.name&#125;&quot; /&gt;

&lt;echo message=&quot;GUID&#58;  $&#123;results&#91;0&#93;.GUID&#125;&quot; /&gt;

&lt;echo message=&quot;State&#58; $&#123;results&#91;0&#93;.assetType&#125;&quot; /&gt;

How can I access assets related to results
I have tried the following and it didnt work:

&lt;!-- The following didnt work --&gt;

&lt;echo message=&quot;RelatedAsset 1&#58; $&#123;results&#91;0&#93;.relatedAssetList&#91;0&#93;.assetName&#125;&quot; /&gt;

		

&lt;echo message=&quot;RelatedAsset 1&#58; $&#123;results&#91;0&#93;.relatedAssetList&#91;0&#93;.relatedAsset&#91;0&#93;.name&#125;&quot; /&gt;

		

&lt;echo message=&quot;RelatedAsset 1&#58; $&#123;results&#91;0&#93;.relatedAssetList&#91;0&#93;.relatedAsset&#91;0&#93;.assetName&#125;&quot; /&gt;

		

&lt;echo message=&quot;RelatedAsset 2&#58; $&#123;results&#91;0&#93;.relatedAssetList&#91;0&#93;.name&#125;&quot; /&gt;

		

&lt;echo message=&quot;RelatedAsset 3&#58; $&#123;results&#91;0&#93;.RelatedAsset&#91;0&#93;.assetName&#125;&quot; /&gt;

		

&lt;echo message=&quot;RelatedAsset 4&#58; $&#123;results&#91;0&#93;.relatedAsset&#91;0&#93;.relationshipType&#125;&quot; /&gt;

		

&lt;echo message=&quot;RelatedAsset 5&#58; $&#123;results&#91;0&#93;.RelatedAsset.relationshipType&#125;&quot; /&gt;

I assume I am referencing the Related Assets incorrectly. Not sure what the correct reference is.

Thanks again for your help Eric. :)

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Eric Bordeau (276●3●2) | answered Oct 05 '11, 10:10 a.m.
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The property helper works by giving you access to public, no-parameter get methods of RAMAsset and the public, no-parameter get methods of the objects those methods return, ad infinitum. So in this case, you have the search results object (which is an array of RAMAssets) and you want information about the related assets. RAMAsset has a getRelationships() method, so you would do something like this:

&lt;echo message=&quot;Related asset 1 GUID&#58; $&#123;results&#91;0&#93;.relationships&#91;0&#93;.childAssetGUID&#125;&quot; /&gt;

getRelationships() returns an array of Relationship objects. I'm not positive, but I think in reality they will be of type RAMRelationship and you'll have access to any of its public get methods. If not, you could take the GUID and version and use the <ram:asset> tag to get its properties.

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Bilal Ahmed (56●1●1) | answered Oct 06 '11, 12:05 a.m.

Thank you Eric!

Absolutely spot on!

Following code works:

&lt;echo message=&quot;Related asset 1 GUID&#58; $&#123;results&#91;0&#93;.relationships&#91;0&#93;.childAssetGUID&#125;&quot; /&gt;

&lt;echo message=&quot;Related asset 2 GUID&#58; $&#123;results&#91;0&#93;.relationships&#91;0&#93;.childAssetVersion&#125;&quot; /&gt;

&lt;echo message=&quot;Related asset 3 GUID&#58; $&#123;results&#91;0&#93;.relationships&#91;0&#93;.relationshipTypeName&#125;&quot; /&gt;

Which corresponds to the following methods:

getChildAssetGUID&#40;&#41;

getChildAssetVersion&#40;&#41;

getParentAsset&#40;&#41;

getRelationshipTypeName&#40;&#41;

Thanks again! :)

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