ConfigurationTable with InfoTable

[kbuss]

Hi,

I'm trying to put an InfoTable into a ConfigurationTable of my custom extension. But when I upload it to the ThingWorx platform no DataShape is available for the InfoTable, so I nothing can be inserted. The DataShape is on the ThingWorx server.

The Code looks like this:

@ThingworxConfigurationTableDefinitions(tables = {

  @ThingworxConfigurationTableDefinition(name = "Config", description = "", isMultiRow = false, ordinal = 0, dataShape = @ThingworxDataShapeDefinition(fields = {

  @ThingworxFieldDefinition(name = "list", description = "", baseType = "INFOTABLE", ordinal = 0, aspects = {

  "isEntityDataShape:true", "dataShape:testShapeInf" }) })) })

When I add a property with baseType INFOTABLE it woks fine, but not with the ConfigurationTable.

Has anybody experience with this?

Thanks,

Keijo

[ankigupta]

Keijo Buss​,

I can also reproduce this issue. I will report it to R&D Team.

Thanks,

Ankit Gupta

[jkaczynski · Accepted solution]

Hello Keijo Buss​,

A little bit late, but I found an workaround. You need to create your own service that will add the records to this nested InfoTable - and after that, you need to re-apply the DataShape to this InfoTable, as below:

// we are adding a row to our nestedInfoTable here...
// and then:
DataShapeDefinition dataShape = ((DataShape) EntityUtilities.findEntity("DataShapeName", ThingworxRelationshipTypes.DataShape)).getDataShape();
nestedInfoTable.setDataShape(dataShape);
configurationTable.SetInfoTableValue("ConfigTableName", nestedInfoTable);

Hope this helps to all of you having such a problem.

Regards,

J.

[placatus]

The issue only appears when the configuration table has isMultiRow set to false. If you set isMultiRow to true, then the issue no longer appears. Here is an example:

@ThingworxConfigurationTableDefinitions(tables = {
@ThingworxConfigurationTableDefinition(name = "Config", description = "", isMultiRow = true, ordinal = 0, dataShape = @ThingworxDataShapeDefinition(fields = {
  @ThingworxFieldDefinition(name = "list", description = "", baseType = "INFOTABLE", ordinal = 0, aspects = {
  "isEntityDataShape:true",
  "dataShape:testShapeInf"
  })
}))
})

However, this causes the composer to display the configuration differently, which may be unwanted.

Another much better alternative is to use a separate Configuration Table for the Infotable property, and declare it inline.

Something like this:

@ThingworxConfigurationTableDefinitions(tables = {
 @ThingworxConfigurationTableDefinition(name = "Config", description = "", isMultiRow = false, ordinal = 0, dataShape =
 @ThingworxDataShapeDefinition(fields = {
 @ThingworxFieldDefinition(name = "username", description = "", baseType = "STRING", ordinal = 0),
 @ThingworxFieldDefinition(name = "pass", description = "", baseType = "PASSWORD", ordinal = 1)
 })
 ),
 @ThingworxConfigurationTableDefinition(name = "List", description = "", isMultiRow = true, ordinal = 0, dataShape =
 @ThingworxDataShapeDefinition(fields = {
 @ThingworxFieldDefinition(name = "element1", description = "", baseType = "STRING", ordinal = 0),
 @ThingworxFieldDefinition(name = "element2", description = "", baseType = "STRING", ordinal = 0)
 })
 )
 })

This would cause the UI to look something like this:

[kbuss]

Thanks for your answers.
For me the approach of Jakub Kaczynski​​, that you manually apply the DataShape to the ConfigurationTable, works fine. You just have to save the ConfigurationTable and restart the Thing by calling the methods:

this.SaveConfigurationTables();

this.RestartThing();

This works also when isMultiRow is set to false.

I also used your suggestion, Petrisor Lacatus, using a separat ConfigurationTable just for the InfoTable, with isMultiRow set to true.