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Creating External Repository Connection programmatically


Atul Kumar (1872329) | asked May 22 '12, 7:13 a.m.
Hi,

I want to create external repository connections programmatically. I am able to fetch all the connections and iterate through their properties to validate them, but the com.ibm.team.interop.common.service.IInteropService and IExternalRepositoryConnection APIs don't allow me to create a new connection.

Should I try debugging the "Create External Repository Connection" wizard to find the API calls for creating external repository connections ?

Thanks,
Atul

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John Vasta (2.6k15) | answered May 23 '12, 1:13 p.m.
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You don't say whether your code is running in the server, or in a client, so you can use either IInteropService.saveExternalRepositoryConnection() (if running in the server) or IItemConnectorAdminClient.saveExternalRepositoryConnection() (if running in a client). The first few lines of javadoc for each method are


* Save a new or updated external repository connection. The incoming object
* must be either a new item or a working copy of an existing item.


This is the standard pattern for creating new items - first you would create an in-memory item using

IExternalRepositoryConnection.ITEM_TYPE.createItem()


Then set the attributes on the item the way you want, and save it.

Hi,

I want to create external repository connections programmatically. I am able to fetch all the connections and iterate through their properties to validate them, but the com.ibm.team.interop.common.service.IInteropService and IExternalRepositoryConnection APIs don't allow me to create a new connection.

Should I try debugging the "Create External Repository Connection" wizard to find the API calls for creating external repository connections ?

Thanks,
Atul
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