Service for Inserting a service into entities

[muzzammil]

How can i go for duplicating a service of a specific thing inside other entities like things or thing templates?

[PaiChung]

I'm not sure why you need to duplicate a service.

You could just create a central helper Thing with services and then invoke that service from the other Entities.

Especially if it is doing the same evaluation.

[ashaban]

Why not implement the shared service in a ThingShape and both entities will implement that shape?

[muzzammil]

@ashaban Thank you. I hope this will help me

[ashaban]

You might also like to try:

// result: INFOTABLE dataShape: "ServiceDefinition"
var result = ThingTemplates["YouThing"].GetServiceDefinition({
name: "serviceToCopy" /* STRING */
});

//see ServiceDefinition data shape for the below paramter inputs
ThingTemplates["OtherThing"].AddServiceDefinition({
name: undefined /* STRING */,
description: undefined /* STRING */,
remoteServiceName: undefined /* STRING */,
category: undefined /* STRING */,
remote: undefined /* BOOLEAN */,
parameters: undefined /* INFOTABLE */,
resultType: undefined /* INFOTABLE */,
timeout: undefined /* INTEGER */
});

[muzzammil]

Actually, i needed a help with a default service 'AddServiceDefinition()'. With this service i'm being able to insert a  service inside an entity, but being unable to insert a code in that inserted service. Can u help me on this?

[ashaban]

I'm sorry but I'm not sure how or if it is even possible to "inject" code to a new Service.

The code can come from different places, from Jars or Composer Js and so on.

Please try the ThingShape approach and see if it can help you.

[PaiChung]

This will only work with Remote Services, ie Services on a connected Thingworx Agent

it will not allow you to create new regular defined services.

[muzzammil]

@PaiChung Actually, with the available snippet, i'm being able to insert a service in the desired entity (like Thing or Thing Template) but being unable to insert a code into that service. So, this way i'm quite sure that there could be some way for inserting a code too. Kindly help me on this.