create or delete iteration and timelines programatically

Not sure if this will be of any use to you anymore, but here is a sample code of how you can do it:

Create Development lines:

    IProcessItemService service= (IProcessItemService) repo.getClientLibrary(IProcessItemService.class);
    projectArea = (IProjectArea) service.getMutableCopy(projectArea);  

    IDevelopmentLine developmentLine = (IDevelopmentLine) IDevelopmentLine.ITEM_TYPE.createItem();
    developmentLine.setId("156");
    developmentLine.setName("New Development Line");
    developmentLine.setProjectArea(projectArea);

    projectArea.addDevelopmentLine(developmentLine);

    service.save(new IProcessItem[] { projectArea, developmentLine }, monitor);

Create Iterations:

    IProcessItemService service= (IProcessItemService) repo.getClientLibrary(IProcessItemService.class);

    IIteration newIteration = (IIteration) IIteration.ITEM_TYPE.createItem();
    newIteration.setName("Ssdfecowsdfnd Iteration");
    newIteration.setId("193");

    IDevelopmentLine workingDevLine = (IDevelopmentLine) devLine.getWorkingCopy();
    workingDevLine.addIteration((IIterationHandle) newIteration.getItemHandle());

    newIteration.setDevelopmentLine(workingDevLine);

    service.save(new IProcessItem[] { workingDevLine, newIteration }, monitor);

Here is the method to create child iteration for an iteration:

IProcessItemService service = (IProcessItemService) repo.getClientLibrary(IProcessItemService.class);
IDevelopmentLine workingDevLine = (IDevelopmentLine) createIterationDevLine.getWorkingCopy();
IIteration iterationCopy = (IIteration) newIteration.getWorkingCopy();
IIteration newSubIteration = (IIteration) IIteration.ITEM_TYPE.createItem();
newSubIteration.setName("Sub Iteration - 5");
newSubIteration.setId("185");
iterationCopy.addChild(newSubIteration);
newSubIteration.setParent(iterationCopy);
newSubIteration.setDevelopmentLine(workingDevLine);
service.save(new IProcessItem[] { newSubIteration, iterationCopy, workingDevLine }, monitor);
return newSubIteration; 

Has anyone done this?

You should be able to do that through our Java client library. Once you have a com.ibm.team.process.common.IProjectArea you can use methods getDevelopmentLines(), addDevelopmentLine() and  setDevelopmentLines() to manage the timelines. Iterations are children of timelines and there are methods in com.ibm.team.process.common.IDevelopmentLine to manage the iterations.

edit: Please note that our Java client library is available as-is and will change over time. It is not a supported API.

                    projectArea.set
                    line.addIteration((IIterationHandle) iter.getItemHandle());
                    break;

                }
            }

Here is the error that I'm getting

Exception in thread "main" com.ibm.team.repository.common.internal.ImmutablePropertyException
    at com.ibm.team.repository.common.internal.util.ItemUtil$ProtectAdapter.notifyChanged(ItemUtil.java:2060)
    at org.eclipse.emf.common.notify.impl.BasicNotifierImpl.eNotify(BasicNotifierImpl.java:280)
    at com.ibm.team.process.internal.common.impl.DevelopmentLineImpl.setName(DevelopmentLineImpl.java:364)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:79)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:618)
    at com.ibm.team.repository.common.internal.util.ItemStore$ItemInvocationHandler.invoke(ItemStore.java:597)
    at $Proxy14.setName(Unknown Source)
    at com.progress.iterationCreation.createIteration(iterationCreation.java:73)
    at com.progress.iterationCreation.main(iterationCreation.java:31)

String str =  "myiteration"

 for (Iterator e = developmentLines.iterator(); e.hasNext();)
            {
                IDevelopmentLine line = (IDevelopmentLine) e.next();
                IIterationHandle[] iterationHandle =  line.getIterations() ;
                                
                for (IIterationHandle iteration : line.getIterations()) {
                    IIteration iter = (IIteration) repo.itemManager().fetchCompleteItem(iteration, 0, monitor);
                    System.out.println("Iteration: " + iter.getName());
                    if (iter.getName().trim().equals(str)) {
                        System.out.println("Iteration " + str + " already exists ............." );
                    }else {
                        iter.getWorkingCopy();
                        line.setName(str);
                           line.addIteration((IIterationHandle) iter.getItemHandle());
                        break;
                                           
                    }
                }
             
            }

I'm trying to create a child iteration, here is my code

  newIteration.setId(str);
  newIteration.setName(str);
  newIteration.setParent(iter);
  workingDevLine.setName(iter.getName());
  workingDevLine.addIteration((IIterationHandle) newIteration.getItemHandle());
   newIteration.setDevelopmentLine(workingDevLine);
  service.save(new IProcessItem[]{workingDevLine, newIteration}, monitor);

but here is the error that I'm getting


Unable to login: Timeline 'Parent Backlog' contains iteration 'child iteration' which has a non-null parent iteration. Any idea ?


                             

 Hello Rachid,

Thanks Sapan for your help,  it looks like my issue was during service.save, I have made the change and I was able to create the child iteration.

This is my program to create sub-iterations: