Calling Thingworx Service Using Java Extension SDK

[bwinslow24]

Hi,

I have a custom service on a Database Thing. I want to call that custom service from my Java Extension. My first thought is to do something like this

Thing myDB = ThingUtilities.findThing("MyDataBase");

InfoTable result = myDB.customService();

Is this the correct way?

Thanks,

Brandon

[CRArko]

Hi, Brandon.

One thing you might want to consider is adding some exception handling to the call to the Service.

See this article for some discussion and techniques for doing that.

Thanks,

-- Craig A.

[mnarang]

If you want to search for your thing and then execute the service .You should find the thing like 

Thing mything =(Thing)EntityUtilities.findEntity("MyDBThing",ThingworxRelationshipTypes.Thing);

So the MyDBThing is the thing in composer and then you can proceed with the call of service keeping the return type in mind like mything.myservice();

For better design you should place this in try catch block .

Thanks ,

Mukul Narang 

[slangley]

Hi @bwinslow24.

If one of the previous responses answered your question, please mark the appropriate one as the Accepted Solution for the benefit of others with the same question.

Regards.

--Sharon

[bwinslow24 · Accepted solution]

@slangley ,

None of these solutions were correct. The way I was able to get it working was with this code:

Thing db = ThingUtilities.findThing("dbThing");

InfoTable result = db.processServiceRequest("customService", null);