Get Work Item from Key Id (idA2A2)

[bmessenger]

Hi,

I have used this case item

https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS153902#_ga=2.74008146.1721421084.1499644934-1088247561.1431470961

to get the work item records I want to complete through an API call.

And this case

https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS234435

tells you how to complete the work item once you have it.

But from the records I get through a SQL query, I have the unique key for the work item (idA2A2 from table WorkItem), but how do I get the WorkItem object in code from this unque key.

If I try a search condition such as

SearchCondition condition = new SearchCondition(WorkItem.class, WorkItem.IDENTITY, SearchCondition.EQUAL, iWorkItemId);

I get an error that says

Caused by: Attribute "identity" is not a member of class "class wt.workflow.work.WorkItem"

If I try

SearchCondition condition = new SearchCondition(WorkItem.class, "workitem.persistinfo.key.id", SearchCondition.EQUAL, iWorkItemId);

I get a similar error.

So what is the search condition for when you have the idA2A2 column (key Id column info). Surely there is a way of finding the object if you have the unique id (whether it be WTPart, WTDocument, WorkItem etc).

Is there a list somewhere of what the identity parameter for each object type should be (ie what the "workitem.persistinfo.key.id" should really be)?

Thanks

Ben

[imendiola]

Hi Ben,

if you have the ida2a2 of the WorkItem object, you can get it with this code:

WorkItem myWorkItem = (WorkItem) new ReferenceFactory().getReference("wt.workflow.work.WorkItem:xxxxxxx").getObject();

where "xxxx" is the ida2a2 of the WorkItem object.

Regards

[BineshKumar1]

If you are using a query spec, you should use one of the valid colum names. You can info report to get the right column name. So the correct column name for ida2a2 is WorkItem.PERSIST_INFO + ".theObjectIdentifier.id"

 qs.appendWhere(new SearchCondition(WorkItem.class, WorkItem.PERSIST_INFO + ".theObjectIdentifier.id", SearchCondition.EQUAL,Long.parseLong("12164431")), null);

if you are navigating from an activity you can directly use the service WfWorkflowStatusHelper.service.getWorkItems(act) to get all the work items. 

asds

[bmessenger · Accepted solution]

Thanks everybody for your responses. I have finally managed to solve it with your help. The code I have implemented is general and allows for getting quite a few object types if you have the idA2A2 unique Id

	public static Persistable getObject(String paramString) throws WTException 
	{
	      if ((paramString == null) || (paramString.isEmpty())) 
	      {
	            throw new RuntimeException("oid is null");
	      }
	      WTReference localWTReference = getReference(paramString);
	      if (localWTReference == null) 
	      {
	            throw new WTException("Reference not found " + paramString);
	      }
	      return localWTReference.getObject();
	}


	public static WTReference getReference(String paramString) throws WTException 
	{
	      if ((paramString == null) || (paramString.isEmpty())) 
	      {
	            throw new RuntimeException("oid is null");
	      }
	      int i = paramString.indexOf(126);
	      paramString = paramString.substring(i + 1);
	      ReferenceFactory referenceFactory = new ReferenceFactory();
	      return referenceFactory.getReference(paramString);
	}

I call the getObject for a Work Item by using this 

	public static WorkItem getWorkItemFromId(long iWorkItemId) throws WTException 
	{
		 WorkItem wi = (WorkItem)getObject("OR:wt.workflow.work.WorkItem:" + Long.toString(iWorkItemId));
		 return wi;
	}

If I want to get say a WTPart I would call it like this (and I've tested this)

public static WTPart getWTPartFromId(long iWTPartId) throws WTException 
	{
		WTPart part = (WTPart)getObject("OR:wt.part.WTPart:" + Long.toString(iWTPartId));
		 return part;
	}

You can do similarly for other object types