How to dynamic add properties by using JAVA Edge SDK

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Hi all,I check JAVA sample code, and it use ThingworxPropertyDefinitions to push properties to ThingWorx.If I want to add a new properties in ThingworxPropertyDefinitions at runtime, how can I achieve this...?Thank you.@ThingworxPropertyDefinitions(properties = {  @ThingworxPropertyDefinition(name="Temperature", description="Current Temperature", baseType="NUMBER", category="Status", aspects={"isReadOnly:true"}),  @ThingworxPropertyDefinition(name="Pressure", description="Current Pressure", baseType="NUMBER", category="Status", aspects={"isReadOnly:true"}),  @ThingworxPropertyDefinition(name="FaultStatus", description="Fault status", baseType="BOOLEAN", category="Faults", aspects={"isReadOnly:true"}),  @ThingworxPropertyDefinition(name="InletValve", description="Inlet valve state", baseType="BOOLEAN", category="Status", aspects={"isReadOnly:true"}),  @ThingworxPropertyDefinition(name="TemperatureLimit", description="Temperature fault limit", baseType="NUMBER", category="Faults", aspects={"isReadOnly:false"}),  @ThingworxPropertyDefinition(name="TotalFlow", description="Total flow", baseType="NUMBER", category="Aggregates", aspects={"isReadOnly:true"}),  })

VladimirRosu_116627 · Accepted Answer

Hi Brandon,See below a snippet (I tested a value received from XML to see if is number, boolean or string and created specific property per type):Also note at the end the use of super.initialize(); instead of super.initializeFromAnnotations() (you can either use one or another as I've seen)                         PropertyDefinition pd;                        AspectCollection aspects = new AspectCollection();                        if (NumberUtils.isNumber(str_AttributeValue)) {                            pd = new PropertyDefinition(str_AttributeName,                                    " ", BaseTypes.NUMBER);                        } else if (str_AttributeValue == "true"                                | str_AttributeValue == "false") {                            pd = new PropertyDefinition(str_AttributeName,                                    " ", BaseTypes.BOOLEAN);                        } else                            pd = new PropertyDefinition(str_AttributeName,                                    " ", BaseTypes.STRING);                        aspects.put(                                Aspects.ASPECT_DATACHANGETYPE,                                new StringPrimitive(DataChangeType.VALUE.name()));                        // Add the dataChangeThreshold aspect                        aspects.put(Aspects.ASPECT_DATACHANGETHRESHOLD,                                new NumberPrimitive(0.0));                        // Add the cacheTime aspect                        aspects.put(Aspects.ASPECT_CACHETIME,                                new IntegerPrimitive(0));                        // Add the isPersistent aspect                        aspects.put(Aspects.ASPECT_ISPERSISTENT,                                new BooleanPrimitive(true));                        // Add the isReadOnly aspect                        aspects.put(Aspects.ASPECT_ISREADONLY,                                new BooleanPrimitive(true));                        // Add the pushType aspect                        aspects.put("pushType", new StringPrimitive(                                DataChangeType.VALUE.name()));                        aspects.put(Aspects.ASPECT_ISLOGGED,                                new BooleanPrimitive(true));                        pd.setAspects(aspects);                        super.defineProperty(pd);                        super.initialize();

Name	Value
fieldName1	5
fieldName2	10
fieldName3	15
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