RTC-ClearCase Bridge API ?

Arun Batra (146●1●24●27) | asked Jan 29 '12, 7:23 a.m.

Hi,
We wanted to use RTC for change management and CC for configuration management. Hence we considered a solution involving RTC-CC bridge. Using this, one can associate a UCM activity from the CC perspective to an RTC existing/new workitem.
But we wanted to perform a reverse action. For Example:
While inside a workitem we want to automatically lock/unlock an associated activity depending on the state of the workitem.

Hence the question: Is there ClearCase Bridge API available (or already provided in RTC's API) so that these actions can be performed programmatic-ally/manually?

If not is there a REST API for ClearCase which could be used alternatively?

I would be grateful if someone could point me in the right direction.

Thanks,
Arun

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Yuhong Yin (251●2●3) | answered Jan 30 '12, 8:28 p.m.
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Hello Arun,

First it is good that you are considering RTC-CC bridge - it does seem a right choice for you. Just curious, are you migrating from a ClearQuest-enabled UCM environment to a RTC-enabled CC/UCM environment?

As you mentioned, most of the RTC-CC operations are currently CC-driven - in other words, you can only initiate the integration use cases from the CC/CCRC side. We are considering to provide a more seamless RTC-CC integration with support of use cases from either sides.

Please read and comment on this related RTC story (and its child stories)
https://jazz.net/jazz/resource/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.WorkItem/164043

To answer your questions,
- No, there is no CC Bridge API available today to accomplish what you want. You can consider adding RTC extensions which call into RTC Java APIs and ClearCase CM APIs (also a Java API) to implement this. However, it is not very easy.
- No, there is no REST API for clearcase today to do this.

Hope this helps and feel free to post additional questions or comments,

Yuhong

Yuhong Yin

ClearCase-RTC, ClearQuest-RTC Connectors Team
Email: yyin@us.ibm.com

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Arun Batra (146●1●24●27) | answered Jan 31 '12, 2:11 a.m.

Hi Yuhong,

Thank you for your quick reply.

Yes, we are migrating from a ClearQuest-enabled UCM environment to a RTC-enabled CC/UCM environment.

I did develop a solution to perform creation of a new UCM activity from an RTC workitem + performing the linkage once it is created + locking and unlocking actions on linked UCM activity using the CMAPI and RTC Java APIs. It is not so stable and it takes a lot of time to perform any action and hence I was hoping for an alternative. I guess we will continue to use this till a seamless integration is released.

But there is another issue which we need to solve desperately.
Every time I use the CMAPI (in the back-end) to perform an action on an activity, I have to provide a CC password. (For this we have used the E-signature attribute in the edtor presentation.)

Question 1:
I am in the RTC Client, I am connected to the RTC, I am connected to CC, is it possible to retrieve the current CC user and Password filled for the connection to CC?

If the answer to the above question is no,
Question 2:
Is is possible to retrieve the RTC username and password for the current user. (This can be a considerable workaround provided that the user has his/her CC password same as his/her RTC password.)

Thanks,
Arun

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Masabumi koinuma (461●1●5) | answered Jan 31 '12, 4:50 p.m.
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Hello Arun,

It's probably not available to access CC userId/password that is used to access CCRC WAN server, but RTC-side is available with something like this ( I assume your solution is a client-side plugin) :

import com.ibm.team.repository.client.ILoginInfo2;

import com.ibm.team.repository.client.ITeamRepository;

import com.ibm.team.repository.client.TeamPlatform;

import com.ibm.team.repository.client.login.UsernameAndPasswordLoginInfo;



String repoURI; // something like 'https&#58;//yourhost.com/ccm'

ITeamRepository repo = TeamPlatform.getTeamRepositoryService&#40;&#41;.getTeamRepository&#40;repoURI&#41;;

if &#40;repo.loggedIn&#40;&#41;&#41; &#123;

    ILoginInfo2 loginInfo = repo.getLoginInfo&#40;&#41;;

    String userId = loginInfo.getLoginProperties&#40;&#41;.getProperty&#40;UsernameAndPasswordLoginInfo.USERNAME&#41;;

    String password = loginInfo.getSecuredLoginProperties&#40;&#41;.getProperty&#40;userId&#41;;

&#125;

Masa Koinuma

0	permanent link Arun Batra (146●1●24●27) \| answered Feb 02 '12, 6:40 a.m. Hello Masa, Thanks for providing a solution. But we are writing a server side plug-in. How can this information be retrieved on the server end. Regards, Arun

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sam detweiler (12.5k●6●195●201) | answered Feb 02 '12, 8:58 a.m.

The server side plugin does not run in the context of a 'user'. All actions are the same.

For my RemoteRepository server plugin, I had to create a special userid to connect with my remote system. I can pass the userid of the person CAUSING the change, but I cannot impersonate them (as I don't have, and can't get their password)..

Sam

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Arun Batra (146●1●24●27) | answered Feb 06 '12, 10:19 a.m.

Hi Sam,

Following the advice, I am now trying to implement a client side plug-in.

The Idea is: A client side operation advisor will fetch the password and fill it in an attribute. After this a server side operation advisor will run and read this attribute and use it to perform the CC stuff.

Question 1: Can the above solution be realized?

I tried to create a client side operation advisor for a work item save event.

extension id=&quot;cc.password.attribute.clientside.fill.client.extnid&quot; point=&quot;com.ibm.team.process.client.operationAdvisors&quot;&gt;

operationAdvisor class=&quot;cc.password.attribute.clientside.fill.client.AutoPassFillImpl&quot; id=&quot;cc.password.attribute.clientside.fill.client.extnid&quot; name=&quot;Auto Password Fill&quot; operationId=&quot;com.ibm.team.workitem.operation.workItemSave&quot;&gt;

      &lt;/operationAdvisor&gt;

&lt;/extension&gt;

But when I save a workitem. I get the error that the plugin it not installed (I have checked "Fail If Not Installed").

Question 2: Is this happening because "com.ibm.team.workitem.operation.workItemSave" is a server side event?

If this is so then,
Question 3: Is there a client side event I can use for this idea. If not, How can I create a new client side event and event listener, What are the extension points I can/should use for realizing this?

I am sorry for asking so many questions at once but we desperately need to get a direction here.

Arun

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sam detweiler (12.5k●6●195●201) | answered Feb 06 '12, 10:39 a.m.

com.ibm.team.workitem.operation.workItemSave is definitely server side.

I do not know if there are any client side operations, I do not think so..

I had to change the Eclipse client source code to implement a client side function we needed.. Not deployed, cause I cannot do the same function in a web client as I can in an Eclipse client.

Sam

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Masabumi koinuma (461●1●5) | answered Feb 06 '12, 10:57 p.m.
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Hi Arun,

Just curious - how important is it for you to run 'lock' or 'unlock' command as the developer's account? If it is a server-side operation advisor, can you just store CC admin's account and password in a text file on the server host and run CC commands through CM-API as the admin account? You may wonder it would lose the information that 'who resolved this?', but it is traceable by RTC's work item, isn't it?

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Arun Batra (146●1●24●27) | answered Feb 07 '12, 1:29 a.m.

Hi Masabumi,

I could have used the solution you mentioned if I were only performing 'lock' and 'unlock' operations on a linked UCM activity. However, I am also creating a new UCM activity from inside of an RTC workitem and creating the required linkage. If I want the user to be able to see that newly created activity in his/her CC view, the creator of the activity has to be him/her. Hence I am lost.

Hi Sam,

We want this functionality to work only from the eclipse client.
In RTC eclipse client, there do exist client side operation listeners (such as com.ibm.team.scm.client.deliver and com.ibm.team.process.client.acceptTeamInvitation).
Question: Can't a new operation listener be created similar to the ones mentioned above. What would be required to be done to achieve this?

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sam detweiler (12.5k●6●195●201) | answered Feb 07 '12, 6:32 p.m.

>Hi Sam,

We want this functionality to work only from the eclipse client.
In RTC eclipse client, there do exist client side operation listeners (such as com.ibm.team.scm.client.deliver and com.ibm.team.process.client.acceptTeamInvitation).
Question: Can't a new operation listener be created similar to the ones mentioned above. What would be required to be done to achieve this?
>

got no idea.. I suppose u could read the source code and figure out what they did, and see if u can replicate it.. knowing that it could change and u might be out of luck..

I am just another user, with no inside knowledge of the system (that I didn't get from reading the code)

Sam

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