Appian Introspect Capability

RE: Appian Introspect Capability

Stefan Helzle — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 15:13:23 GMT

I just tried to install that plugin on Appian 22.4. It failed with the following error message in the tomcat-stdout log file.

2022-11-30 15:10:22,285 [http-nio-8080-exec-4471] ERROR com.appiancorp.plugins.LoggingPluginEventListener - Failed to enable Plug-in 'Introspect' (introspect) version 1.2: 'The Function Module com.appiancorp.ps.introspect.cdt.TypeReferenceFunctions could not be installed due to invalid type: Invalid Type: Unsupported type com.appiancorp.ps.introspect.datatypes.TypeReference. Use the @Type annotation to indicate the type of a function parameter. The deprecated type attribute for the @Parameter annotation has been removed. (APNX-1-4104-008)'

RE: Appian Introspect Capability

Appian AppMarket — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 23:20:08 GMT

v1.2 Release Notes

New functions:

getEntityTypeReference: return a TypeReference to the CDT that is persisted in the Entity referenced by the given EntityReference
loadMetadata: load the metadata of the given CDT plus all its referenced CDTs

RE: Appian Introspect Capability

Philip Snyman — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 12:32:01 GMT

Very useful plugin! Thank you!

It seems however that the ObjectDetails list that is returned by the getappobjectuuids() function does not refresh the description field after the initial call.

Can you please advise whether this is working as expected ( i.e. a feature vs a bug )? I am guessing the latter.

If it is the latter, it would be great if you can provide a fix or workaround to the issue.

Kind Regards.

RE: Appian Introspect Capability

Appian AppMarket — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 22:00:12 GMT

v1.1.2 Release Notes

Corrected an error when getting back the getFieldType for a list field, now it returns the item's type in this case.
New Function createTypeReferenceFromTypeId(typeId) returns a new TypeReference to the Type corresponding to the given typeId.The goal is to be able to create a TypeReference to the referenced field's type: createTypeReferenceFromTypeId(getFieldType(local!fieldReference))

RE: Appian Introspect Capability

Appian AppMarket — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 22:12:47 GMT

v1.1.1 Release Notes

Corrected an error thrown in Function createRuleReference
Corrected the Function GetType(TypeReference) now it returns the Referenced Type itself and not an ID_REFERENCE to its constructor
New Function newValue(TypeReference) returns an ID_REFERENCE to the referenced type's constructor
New Function getListType(TypeReference) return the referenced type's corresponding List Type
New Function createEntityReference(DataStoreEntity) returns new Reference to the given datastore entity, so this references can be saved and loaded as part of other CDTs
New Function getEntity(EntityReference) returns the referenced entity from the given EntityReference, so this reference can be used anywhere a DataStoreEntity is expected
CreateRuleReference can also be used with integrations, interfaces and decision tables too