issues while creating contents using API

We are facing some issues while trying to create content instances using Vignette API. In our content type definition, there are a couple of relators and we need to set the values of some of the attributes inside those relators. We are able to create the contents by setting the values of the first level attributes, which are not inside any relator using the following code;

ContentType contentType = (ContentType) ObjectType.findByName(strContentType);
            ContentInstance ci = (ContentInstance) contentType.newInstance();
            ci.setAttributeValue("DASH-CONTENT-TITLE", "testContent");
            ci.setAttributeValue("DASH-CONTENT-PORTAL-DIRECT-LINK", "0");
            ci.setAttributeValue("DASH-CONTENT-KEYWORDS", "test");
            ci.setAttributeValue("DASH-CONTENT-METADATA", "test2");
            ci.setAttributeValue("DASH-CONTENT-MAIN-BODY", "testContent");
            ci.setAttributeValue("DASH-CONTENT-OWNED-BY", "admin");

            ci.setLogicalPath("/dashboard");

            ci.commit();

CAN ANYONE SUGGEST A WAY TO SET VALUES INSIDE THE RELATOR?

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David_Stiles

Sub-relation rows are created with ContentRelationInstance. Youneed to construct one of these for each sub-relation row (also be sure to setthe ObjectTypeRef on each one – not doing so is a common mistake). Setattribute values for each attribute of the sub-relation using ContentRelationInstance.setAttributeValue().And finally, add the sub-relations to the content instance usingContentInstance.setRelations(). If you have a sub-relation that is nested as achild of another sub-relation then you follow this same approach, but instead ofadding the sub-relation instances to the content instance usingContentInstance.setRelations(), you add them to the parent sub-relationinstances using using ContentRelationInstance.setRelations().

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Posted by ng627@chrysler.com (Gupta, Namit) On 2011/08/18 10:44

ContentType contentType = (ContentType) ObjectType.findByName(strContentType);
            ContentInstance ci = (ContentInstance) contentType.newInstance();
            ci.setAttributeValue("DASH-CONTENT-TITLE", "testContent");
            ci.setAttributeValue("DASH-CONTENT-PORTAL-DIRECT-LINK", "0");
            ci.setAttributeVa! lue("DASH-CONTENT-KEYWORDS", "test");
            ci.setAttributeValue("DASH-CONTENT-METADATA", "test2");
            ci.setAttributeValue("DASH-CONTENT-MAIN-BODY", "testContent");
            ci.setAttributeValue("DASH-CONTENT-OWNED-BY", "admin");

            ci.setLogicalPath("/dashboard");

            ci.commit();

CAN ANYONE SUGGEST A WAY TO SET VALUES INSIDE THE RELATOR?

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Markus_Schorer

I was struggling with the same thing ... here is what we do in half meta code:

try {

ci.setLogicalPath( obj.getPath());
ci.setAttributeValue("ROOT_ATT1", obj.getTag());
ci.setAttributeValue("ROOT_ATT2", obj.getMessage());

List<ContentRelationInstance> criList = new ArrayList<ContentRelationInstance>();

ContentTypeRef contentTypeRef = (ContentTypeRef) ci.getObjectTypeRef();

// get the map ob related object
Map<String, String> transx = (HashMap<String, String>) obj.getLocales();

if ( transx != null) {
    Set<String> locales = transx.keySet();
     Iterator<String> it = locales.iterator();

    while (it.hasNext()) {
    // Get element
      String locale = it.next();
      String msg = transx.get(locale);

      ContentRelationInstance cri = vcmFactory.createContentRelationInstance( contentTypeRef);

      cri.setAttributeValue("SUB_REL_ATT1", "some");
      cri.setAttributeValue("SUB_REL_ATT2", "stuff");

      criList.add(cri);
      locidx++;
    }
ci.setRelations("ROOT_REL_NAME", (ContentRelationInstance[]) criList .toArray(new ContentRelationInstance[ criList.size()]));

}
ci.commit();
} catch (Exception e) {
throw new CmsException("Error writing content instance: " + msg, e);
}

found it somewhere in the sample code ...

hope it helps,

markus

Namit_Gupta

Thank you all for your feedback!

I was able to get it done !