Creating a Soft Type in a Java Expression

[Toby.Pettit]

Hi All,

Does anyone know how you can create a soft type using a Java expression (to be used in a workflow).

For example to create a Change Notice:

wt.change2.WTChangeOrder2 co = wt.change2.WTChangeOrder2.newWTChangeOrder2();

But how about if I wanted to create a soft type of the Change Notice object called "HT Change Notice"?

Thanks in advance,

Toby

[MatthewKnight]

You need to get a TypeDefintionReference. There are several ways you can do that.

Let's assume you have the type String type = "wt.doc.WTDocument|com.CustomDocument"

Generally, it's something like this

TypeDefinitionReference tdr = wt.type.TypedUtility.getTypeDefinitionReference(type);

WTDocument doc = WTDocument.newWTDocument();

doc.setName(....)

doc.setNumber(...)

doc.setContainer(...)

doc.set.................

doc.setTypeDefinitionReference(tdr);

doc = (WTDocument)PersistenceHelper.manager.save(doc)

[MatthewKnight · Accepted solution]

If you'd rather start with the WTTypeDefinition, something like this may work:

public static void main(String[] args) {

try {

String logicalID = "wt.doc.WTDocument";

TypeDefinition typeDefinition = getTypeDefinition(logicalID);

TypeDefinitionReference tdr = getTypeDefinitionReference(typeDefinition);

} catch (Exception e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

}

private static TypeDefinitionReference getTypeDefinitionReference(TypeDefinition td) throws WTException, WTPropertyVetoException {

TypeDefinitionReference tdr = TypeDefinitionReference.newTypeDefinitionReference();

TypeDefinitionForeignKey key = TypeDefinitionForeignKey.newTypeDefinitionForeignKey();

key.setBranchId(td.getBranchIdentifier());

key.setId(PersistenceHelper.getObjectIdentifier(td).getId());

tdr.setKey(key);

return tdr;

}

private static TypeDefinition getTypeDefinition(String logicalID) {

try {

QuerySpec qs = new QuerySpec(WTTypeDefinition.class);

qs.appendWhere(new SearchCondition(WTTypeDefinition.class,WTTypeDefinition.LOGICAL_IDENTIFIER,SearchCondition.EQUAL,logicalID),new int[]{0});

qs.appendAnd();

qs.appendWhere(new SearchCondition(WTTypeDefinition.class,WTTypeDefinition.LATEST_ITERATION,SearchCondition.IS_TRUE),new int[]{0});

return (TypeDefinition)PersistenceHelper.manager.find((StatementSpec)qs).nextElement();

} catch (Exception e) {

return null;

}

}

[Toby.Pettit]

Can the latter be used in a workflow expression? I have not tried the first post yet, but it is very similar to the expression that I have used to create a Change Notice in a workflow before so I shall try that one first.

[MatthewKnight]

Just about any compilable java can be used in a workflow expression (the WfExpression bodies are compiled into java classes). You must use full package names for anything outside of java.lang.