Im trying to create a very basic Todo-entity from the Breeze example.. Im doing:
manager.createEntity("Todo",{Description:"Test",Id:32,IsDone:false});
But I keep getting an error where the console tells me that it couldnt find the Type "Todo".. I have tried all types I can possibly think of..
Could anyone please provide me with an example of how to create an entity for the breeze WebApiSample.. cause this is driving me nuts..
Thanks alot!
Breeze needs metadata in order to create an entity of any type. That metadata can either be returned from the server or created locally. My guess is that you haven't yet done either of these. Metadata from the server is usually automatically fetched by Breeze during its first query against the server. Alternatively you can cause it to be fetched directly via the MetadataStore.fetchMetadata method.
Hope this helps.
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I have embedded Teiid 12.3 in a Spring Boot application. I want to get into the metadata of my VDB in order to generate a diagram using graphviz-java. I assume that if I have a org.teiid.metadata.Table object, I can call getIncomingObjects() to get references to tables that table depends on. I just can't figure out how to navigate from the EmbeddedServer to the Table objects.
I looked into using the administration API available via EmbeddedServer.getAdmin(). From there, I can call getVDBs(), and from there I can navigate down to getModels(), but below that level there is only the model source via getSourceMetadataText(). I also tried subclassing EmbeddedServer to make getVDBRepository() public. I can call getVDBRepository()*.getModels(), but it returns the same Model objects only get me access to the source definition of the models, not the runtime metadata model.
I tried getVDBRepository().getSystemStore() and VDBRepository.getODBCStore(), but those MetadataStores are not for the VDB I have deployed.
I haven't found any examples by Google, Teeid JIRA, Teiid forum, or StackOverflow to help me.
Take look at [1] the getSchema method on Admin API, this method returns the string form of the metadata, however you can grab Schema object for object form. If you do not want that way, Teiid also exposes system catalog using many SYS tables, you can issue SQL queries to grab the metadata of schemas and schema items in a VDB. One for internal access, another is from external access.
BTW one of users created a dependency diagram tool that may be useful if you are trying to do something similar. See [2]. Let me know if you interested in pushing that further.
[1] https://github.com/teiid/teiid/blob/master/runtime/src/main/java/org/teiid/runtime/EmbeddedAdminImpl.java#L544-L557
[2] https://github.com/teiid/metadata-catalog-ui
In a SPA app using breeze, how would I go about combining metadata from multiple sources for related data so that I can use them in 1 manager on the client. For example, I might have the following
Entity Framework Metadata from WebAPI controller (e.g. Account)
Custom Metadata from DTOs (e.g. Invoices)
Data from a third party service with metadata provided from client side metadata (e.g. Invoice transmission result)
In each case the data has related properties so I might want to be able to use Account.Transactions.TransmissionResults
UPDATE
I have tried several ways of getting this to work but to no avail. From Jay's answer, it is not possible at present to update the metadata from the server once it has been retrieved, so if and until that changes (see breeze user voice issue) I am left with one of the following approaches
1 Retrieve metadata from the server from Entity Framework and add metadata on the client to add extra entities. This worked to a degree but I could not add navigation properties from entity types added on the client to entity types retrieved from the server because I cannot add the foreign key association to the entity retrieved from the server, again back to the need to modifying metadata after it has been retrieved.
2 Write the complete metadata by hand, which will work but makes maintainability that much harder and seems wrong to be manually writing mostly the same code that the designer would write.
3 Generate most of the code from Entity Framework as described in the docs and then update it afterwards to add in the custom entities. Again similar issues than with option 2, it seems hacky.
Anyone else tried something similar? Is there something I am missing, which I could be, I've only started with breeze and js.
Thanks
A breeze EntityManager can have metadata from any number of DataService endpoints, and you can manually add metadata (new EntityTypes) on the client at any point. The only current restriction is that once you have metadata from a specific service, you can't change it. ( We are considering reviewing the last restriction).
So the question is, what are you trying to do that you can't right now?
I'm updating my Windows Phone App to Mango and starting to use SQL Server CE. I can insert and select data but am struggling to understand how to update data.
Most of the examples are basic tutorials and only show inserting and retrieving data not updating. I believe I need to attach a class I have retrieved to the data context but that is as far as I have got.
Please can someone point me to an online tutorial showing how to do this. Or some example code would be great.
Thanks.
UPDATE
Basic updating looks fairly simple - query the database, update the object, call SubmitChanges.
My scenario is a little more complicated.
I have a page showing a list of jobs. A job (JobDetail) is selected and another page is used to edit the details. The job is written to a cache (another table JobCache) while the job is edited. If the user cancels the edit the cache is deleted. If the user saves the edit the JobCache object is pulled from the cache, converted to an object of type JobDetail and now I want to update the database with the new JobDetail object.I don't think I can just call SubmitChanges as the object was not generated from a query. I believe I need to somehow use Attach to do this. The question is how?
Why not get the original JobDetail object, update the changed properties from the cahced object and call SubmitChanges ?
I want to add custom data to the insert method of the db library to automatically do some timestamp work and other processing. I know I can extend controller and model defaults with MY_, but what about the DB?
This isnt the right answer, because you can extend your CI Database class, i did it!
Just follow this tut and you will get it working!
https://github.com/EllisLab/CodeIgniter/wiki/Extending-Database-Drivers
im just have problems trying to use two database connections when the second connection is loaded with $this->db->load(), just had this problem, everyelse work like a charm!
No: see http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/creating_libraries.html, there is an explicit warning that the DB class can't be extended.
How would you suggest working with files that is stored on the note of a entity in Crm. Could you write a generic method that will enable you to access any type of file? Or would it be better to have a method for dealing with each type of file?
For example, we are going to be saving a mix of swf files and xml files on the entity, so would it make sense to have a method each for example:
GetXmlFilesOnAccount(accountid)
GetSwfFilesOnAccount(accountid)
When you upload an attachment to CRM the mimetype is also saved as part of the record information.
The following link contains a nice example of how to download the attachemt using a single method. http://crmscape.blogspot.com/2009/10/ms-crm-40-sending-attachments-to.html
The post is missing the actual query needed to retrieve the annotations but you can tell what columns are required from the method signature.
My suggestion using your methods:
* GetXmlFilesOnAccount(accountid)
* GetSwfFilesOnAccount(accountid)
Retrieve account activitypointers by regardingobjectid(in your case accountid guid)
Loop through returned activitypointers
Get attachments for each activitypointer (activitypointer.activityid = activitymimeattachment.activityid)
Store attachments (disk, etc)
You don't even need two methods. You can retrieve all attachment file types for a given note (annotation) with a single method.
Hope this helps.
I recently started an Open Source Project on CodePlex to accomplish exactly that. Feel free to check out the Project's Web Page at:
http://crmattachdownload.codeplex.com/
You can also view the source code under the "Source Code" tab of that same page.
Pete