Enable thing() and Restart thing() from Eclipse Extension

[Sathishkumar_C]

Hi All,

I want to make a thing to Enable and Restart within Eclipse Extension.

How can i do this?

Thing things = new Thing();

things.Enable Thing();

things.RestartThing();

Above code is not working.

Thanks & Regards,

Sathishkumar C.

[supandey]

Hi @Sathishkumar_C could you share exactly what sort of error / issue you are running into?

[Sathishkumar_C]

I can't able to enable and restart the thing after creation.

[supandey]

Do you mean once you import the extension you can't enable and restart those Entities? could you please share any screenshot or template detail you are working with?

[Sathishkumar_C]

Thing Creation script itself written in eclipse only. After importing an extension, i will create a thing and then i will enable and restart thing.

[supandey]

I quickly tested it out for me it's working, not sure if you are doing something different. Here's my script from the extension in the eclipse 

@ThingworxServiceDefinition(name = "CreateAThing", description = "", category = "", isAllowOverride = false, aspects = {
			"isAsync:false" })
	@ThingworxServiceResult(name = "Result", description = "", baseType = "BOOLEAN", aspects = {})
	public void CreateAThing() throws Exception {
		_logger.trace("Entering Service: CreateAThing");
		_logger.trace("Exiting Service: CreateAThing");

		EntityServices newThingService = new EntityServices();

		String name = "UniqueThingName";	
		String desc = "Static Thing from Custom Extension";
		TagCollection myTag = null;

				try {
					newThingService.CreateThing(name, desc, myTag, "ExtensionStandardNew");
				} catch (Exception e) {
					// TODO Auto-generated catch block
					System.out.println("Failed to create the thing");
					e.printStackTrace();
				}

		
	}

After importing the extension I get the ExtensionStandardNew ThingTemplate from which I create a thing say T2, from T2 I execute the CreateAThing

Which creates a thing called "UniqueThingName" which is disabled by default, so from a different thing i check for it and enable & restart it 

[Sathishkumar_C]

This is fine.

After thing created it will be disabled state. So, i want to EnableThing() and RestartThing().

newThingService.CreateThing(name, desc, myTag, "ExtensionStandardNew");
Here,
EnableThing();
RestartThing();

it should happen automatically within eclipse code.

Thanks & Regards,

Sathishkumar C. 

[supandey · Accepted solution]

@Sathishkumar_C In that case I think the issue might be that you are attempting start / enable of thing on template level and that's not possible. You need to attempt that on the object , something like this 

@ThingworxServiceDefinition(name = "CreateAThing", description = "", category = "", isAllowOverride = false, aspects = {
			"isAsync:false" })
	@ThingworxServiceResult(name = "Result", description = "", baseType = "BOOLEAN", aspects = {})
	public void CreateAThing() throws Exception {
		_logger.trace("Entering Service: CreateAThing");
		_logger.trace("Exiting Service: CreateAThing");

		EntityServices newThingService = new EntityServices();

		String name = "UniqueThingName";
		String desc = "Static Thing from Custom Extension";
		TagCollection myTag = null;

		try {
			newThingService.CreateThing(name, desc, myTag, "ExtensionStandardNew");
		} catch (Exception e) {
			System.out.println("Failed to create Thing");
			e.printStackTrace();
		}

		Thing mything = (Thing) EntityUtilities.findEntity(name, ThingworxRelationshipTypes.Thing);
		_logger.trace("Failed to find thing", mything.getName());

		try {
			mything.EnableThing();
		} catch (Exception e) {
			System.out.println("Failed to enable thing" + mything.getName());
			e.printStackTrace();
		}

[Sathishkumar_C]

Working fine.

Thanks.