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August 28, 2018
Question

Create Thing Dynamically OK but doesn't appear in Composer until reboot !!

  • August 28, 2018
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Hello

 

I'm creating things when not existing using code recommandations.

It works fine, I can use the things in services, MAshups ... but it doesn't appear in the list of things of the composer.

 

restart tomcat8 : not OK

reboot server : OK

 

any ideas ?

 

my code :

try { 
 var params = { 
 name: DeviceName, 
 description: "This is a device automatically created on data reception at " + today, 
 thingTemplateName: "MyTemplate" 
 }; 
 Resources["EntityServices"].CreateThing(params); 
 // Always enable and restart a new thing to make it active on the Platform 
 Things[DeviceName].EnableThing(); 
 Things[DeviceName].RestartThing(); 
 	
 // Any code that could potentially cause an exception should 
 // also be included in the try-catch block. 
 logger.debug ( logprefix + DeviceName + " created !!!");
} 
catch (err) { 
 // If an exception is caught, we need to attempt to delete everything 
 // that was created to roll back the entire transaction. 
 // If we do not do this a "ghost" entity will remain in memory 
 // We must do this in reverse order of creation so there are no dependency conflicts 
 // We also do not know where it failed so we must attempt to remove all of them, 
 // but also handle exceptions in case they were not created 
 
 logger.debug ( logprefix + DeviceName + " EXCEPTION! = " + err + " --- to be deleted" );

 
 try { 
 var devicename = devicename ;
 var params = {name: DeviceName}; 
 Resources["EntityServices"].DeleteThing(params); 
 logger.debug ( logprefix + DeviceName + " deleted !");

 } 
 catch(ex2) {//Thing was not created 
 logger.debug ( logprefix + DeviceName + " not deleted ! EXCEPTION! = " + ex2);

 } 
} 

result = DeviceName ; 
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3 replies

5-Regular Member
August 30, 2018

Hi @pjoly does it behaves the same if you were to manually call the CreateThing service? I tried testing it by calling CreateThing in a loop all created things shows up for me without any reboot.

 

Which ThingWorx version are you on?

pjoly1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
August 30, 2018

Hello @supandey

 

Yes if I create the thing manually with the composer or if I call manually the service from the composer,  I can see it directly in the list of things.

I'm using Thingworx 7.4.9

 

FYI the service to create the thing is called from MQTT subscriber (user is system) . But the thing is well created, just not displayed

 

Regards

5-Regular Member
September 18, 2018

@pjoly sorry for some delay in getting back to this, I could not reproduce this issue so far, even when i have the thing creation service automatically triggered based on a dummy event raised by a Timer i tested this on v8.3.1. Based on the the timer event thing gets created and i can instantly see that once i navigate to the ThingWorx Composer > Things

 

Have you tried this on any other ThingWorx version?