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Sathishkumar_C17-Peridot
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July 10, 2018
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Create Datashape with Eclipse Extension

  • July 10, 2018
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Hi All,

I have created an infotable in eclipse extension and try to plot as a chart. I can able to see the data on grid by checking "ShowAllColoumns". But i can,t able to plot as chart.

How can i create a datashape with in eclipse and import into thingworx?

 

Thanks & Regards,

Sathishkumar C.

Best answer by vxavier

I saw in a widget here, and maybe you can try create a folder inside your zip file with the entities. Following the architecture:

 

- MyExtension.zip

  • Entities
    • DataShapes
      • You data shape.xml
  • ui
  • metadata.xml

That is the example of the xml file that defines the data shape that I found:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Entities
 build="b140"
 majorVersion="8"
 minorVersion="2"
 modelPersistenceProviderPackage="PostgresPersistenceProviderPackage"
 revision="1"
 schemaVersion="1020"
 universal="">
 <DataShapes>
 <DataShape
 baseDataShape=""
 description=""
 documentationContent=""
 homeMashup=""
 lastModifiedDate="2018-03-20T14:54:13.211+02:00"
 name="GanttChartData"
 projectName=""
 tags="Applications:GanttChart;Applications:Testing">
 <avatar></avatar>
 <DesignTimePermissions>
 <Create></Create>
 <Read></Read>
 <Update></Update>
 <Delete></Delete>
 <Metadata></Metadata>
 </DesignTimePermissions>
 <RunTimePermissions></RunTimePermissions>
 <VisibilityPermissions>
 <Visibility></Visibility>
 </VisibilityPermissions>
 <ConfigurationTables></ConfigurationTables>
 <FieldDefinitions>
 <FieldDefinition
 baseType="NUMBER"
 description=""
 name="duration"
 ordinal="8"></FieldDefinition>
 <FieldDefinition
 baseType="DATETIME"
 description=""
 name="end"
 ordinal="4"></FieldDefinition>
 <FieldDefinition
 baseType="STRING"
 description=""
 name="id"
 ordinal="1"></FieldDefinition>
 <FieldDefinition
 baseType="STRING"
 description=""
 name="name"
 ordinal="2"></FieldDefinition>
 <FieldDefinition
 baseType="NUMBER"
 description=""
 name="percentage"
 ordinal="5"></FieldDefinition>
 <FieldDefinition
 baseType="STRING"
 description=""
 name="relationships"
 ordinal="7"></FieldDefinition>
 <FieldDefinition
 baseType="STRING"
 description=""
 name="resource"
 ordinal="6"></FieldDefinition>
 <FieldDefinition
 baseType="DATETIME"
 description=""
 name="start"
 ordinal="3"></FieldDefinition>
 </FieldDefinitions>
 </DataShape>
 </DataShapes>
</Entities>

Hope it works and help.

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supandey5-Regular Member
5-Regular Member
July 11, 2018

Hi @Sathishkumar_C not sure if you have already tried, is this not working when you create Configuration Table? This creates the datashape fields

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Sathishkumar_C17-PeridotAuthor
17-Peridot
July 11, 2018
Thanks for your reply.
I don't know how it will work. Anyway I will try this.
Also I have defined datashape as xml in meta.xml file. It was working fine.

Thanks.
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supandey5-Regular Member
5-Regular Member
July 12, 2018

Hi @Sathishkumar_C configuration table option which i mentioned would be if you have like a configuration section in your entity.

 

If you are just looking to create a data shape you can invoke the EntityServices function CreateDataShape()

 

InfoTable myIF = new InfoTable();
FieldDefinition Field1 = new FieldDefinition("Field1", BaseTypes.INTEGER);
EntityServices es = new EntityServices();

String name = "CustomDataShape";
		String description = "Created from Extension";
		TagCollection myTag = null;
		myIF.addField(Field1);

		try {
			es.CreateDataShape(name, description, myTag, myIF);
			_logger.info("Successfully created datashape" + es.getName());
		} catch (Exception e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
			_logger.error("Failed to create DS");
		}
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vxavier5-Regular MemberAnswer
5-Regular Member
July 12, 2018

I saw in a widget here, and maybe you can try create a folder inside your zip file with the entities. Following the architecture:

 

- MyExtension.zip

  • Entities
    • DataShapes
      • You data shape.xml
  • ui
  • metadata.xml

That is the example of the xml file that defines the data shape that I found:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Entities
 build="b140"
 majorVersion="8"
 minorVersion="2"
 modelPersistenceProviderPackage="PostgresPersistenceProviderPackage"
 revision="1"
 schemaVersion="1020"
 universal="">
 <DataShapes>
 <DataShape
 baseDataShape=""
 description=""
 documentationContent=""
 homeMashup=""
 lastModifiedDate="2018-03-20T14:54:13.211+02:00"
 name="GanttChartData"
 projectName=""
 tags="Applications:GanttChart;Applications:Testing">
 <avatar></avatar>
 <DesignTimePermissions>
 <Create></Create>
 <Read></Read>
 <Update></Update>
 <Delete></Delete>
 <Metadata></Metadata>
 </DesignTimePermissions>
 <RunTimePermissions></RunTimePermissions>
 <VisibilityPermissions>
 <Visibility></Visibility>
 </VisibilityPermissions>
 <ConfigurationTables></ConfigurationTables>
 <FieldDefinitions>
 <FieldDefinition
 baseType="NUMBER"
 description=""
 name="duration"
 ordinal="8"></FieldDefinition>
 <FieldDefinition
 baseType="DATETIME"
 description=""
 name="end"
 ordinal="4"></FieldDefinition>
 <FieldDefinition
 baseType="STRING"
 description=""
 name="id"
 ordinal="1"></FieldDefinition>
 <FieldDefinition
 baseType="STRING"
 description=""
 name="name"
 ordinal="2"></FieldDefinition>
 <FieldDefinition
 baseType="NUMBER"
 description=""
 name="percentage"
 ordinal="5"></FieldDefinition>
 <FieldDefinition
 baseType="STRING"
 description=""
 name="relationships"
 ordinal="7"></FieldDefinition>
 <FieldDefinition
 baseType="STRING"
 description=""
 name="resource"
 ordinal="6"></FieldDefinition>
 <FieldDefinition
 baseType="DATETIME"
 description=""
 name="start"
 ordinal="3"></FieldDefinition>
 </FieldDefinitions>
 </DataShape>
 </DataShapes>
</Entities>

Hope it works and help.

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