Way to call Appian process directly from java robot

Hi Antonio,

To do that, you need to design a web Api object and then call it from a robot implementing the interface IWebApiResponse.

There is a example: 

https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/20.2/rpa/rpa_in_apps/sync-pattern.html

I hope this help.

Hi Jesus, my robot cannot resolve IWebApiResponse class, I'm using 20.2 version. Do you know what it could be?

Hi Antonio,

To use IWebApiResponse, you need to import the class com.novayre.jidoka.client.api.appian.webapi.IWebApiResponse which is found in the version 7.1.0 of the jidoka-robot-parent library.

<parent>
   <groupId>com.novayre.jidoka.robot</groupId>
   <artifactId>jidoka-robot-parent</artifactId>
   <version>7.1.0</version>
</parent>

Give me this error: Could not find artifact com.novayre.jidoka.robot:jidoka-robot-parent:pom:7.1.0 in jidoka

Now I have version 7.0.0

What should I do?

Thank you

Version 20.2 uses the jidoka-parent 7.1.0 library, to make sure it is available in your environment, you can look at the Javadoc of your RPA console.

I hope this help!

Yes, thank you. I'm using  jidoka-parent 7.1.0.

But when I programmed the robot (a few months ago) there was still version 7.0.0, so the configurator.exe also had version 7.0.0
Now what should I do, re-download the configurator and install everything again? Or redo the robot from scratch?

Hi Antonio:

It is not necessary re-download the configurator. 

Try to create a new robot from template, for example using "Hello World". You will get the source code in a zip file. Import the code in your IDE and check that the jidoka-robot-parent for this robot is the 7.1.0 version. If yes, try to execute the "mvn clean deploy" command. This command should download the artifact com.novayre.jidoka.robot:jidoka-robot-parent:pom:7.1.0 to your local maven directory ( ${user.home}\.m2\repository )

If it doesn't work with the template either, ask for your Appian administrator to review if this version of Appian RPA is available in your environment.

Thank you David, I did as you said and I get this error

[ERROR] Non-resolvable parent POM for com.novayre.jidoka.robot.test:TestBrowserWebApi:0.0.1: Failure to find com.novayre.jidoka.robot:jidoka-robot-parent:pom:7.1.0 in appiandemo.appiancloud.com/.../ was cached in the local r
epository, resolution will not be reattempted until the update interval of jidoka has elapsed or updates are forced and 'parent.relativePath' points at wrong local POM @ line 12, column 10 -> [Help 2]

...

Caused by: org.eclipse.aether.resolution.ArtifactResolutionException: Failure to find com.novayre.jidoka.robot:jidoka-robot-parent:pom:7.1.0 in https://appiandemo.appiancloud.com/rpa-repo/repository/jidoka/ was cached in the local repository, resolution will
not be reattempted until the update interval of jidoka has elapsed or updates are forced

Should I update the repository? How can I solve?
Thank you

Hi Antonio,

The best way to fix it is to delete the contents of the C: /Users/your.user/.m2/repository folder.

Once you delete the content, do a #mvn clean install

I hope this help

Hi Antonio,

The best way to fix it is to delete the contents of the C: /Users/your.user/.m2/repository folder.

Once you delete the content, do a #mvn clean install

I hope this help

Not works...

C:\Users\myUser\Desktop\RPA\TAD ROBOTS\RobotBrowserClass - Package - 2020-09-09_0804\RobotBrowserClass>mvn clean install
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
Downloading from jidoka: https://company.appiancloud.com/rpa-repo/repository/jidoka/com/novayre/jidoka/robot/jidoka-robot-parent/7.1.0/jidoka-robot-parent-7.1.0.pom
Downloading from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/novayre/jidoka/robot/jidoka-robot-parent/7.1.0/jidoka-robot-parent-7.1.0.pom
[ERROR] [ERROR] Some problems were encountered while processing the POMs:
[FATAL] Non-resolvable parent POM for com.novayre.jidoka.robot.test:RobotBrowserClass:0.0.1: Could not find artifact com.novayre.jidoka.robot:jidoka-robot-parent:pom:7.1.0 in jidoka (https://company.appiancloud.com/rpa-repo/repository/jidoka/) and 'parent.relati
vePath' points at wrong local POM @ line 12, column 10
 @
[ERROR] The build could not read 1 project -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR]   The project com.novayre.jidoka.robot.test:RobotBrowserClass:0.0.1 (C:\Users\myUser\Desktop\RPA\TAD ROBOTS\RobotBrowserClass - Package - 2020-09-09_0804\RobotBrowserClass\pom.xml) has 1 error
[ERROR]     Non-resolvable parent POM for com.novayre.jidoka.robot.test:RobotBrowserClass:0.0.1: Could not find artifact com.novayre.jidoka.robot:jidoka-robot-parent:pom:7.1.0 in jidoka (https://company.appiancloud.com/rpa-repo/repository/jidoka/) and 'parent.re
lativePath' points at wrong local POM @ line 12, column 10 -> [Help 2]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/ProjectBuildingException
[ERROR] [Help 2] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/UnresolvableModelException

At the line 12 of pom there is a parent element with version.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

	<groupId>com.novayre.jidoka.robot.test</groupId>
	<artifactId>RobotBrowserClass</artifactId>
	<packaging>jar</packaging>
	<version>0.0.1</version>

	<name>browser</name>

	<parent>
		<groupId>com.novayre.jidoka.robot</groupId>
		<artifactId>jidoka-robot-parent</artifactId>
		<version>7.1.0</version> <!-- VC -->
	</parent>

	<profiles>
		<profile>
			<id>jidoka-repo</id>

			<activation>
				<activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
			</activation>

			<repositories>
				<repository>
					<id>jidoka</id>
					<url>https://company.appiancloud.com/rpa-repo/repository/jidoka/</url>
					<releases>
					</releases>
					<snapshots>
					</snapshots>
				</repository>
			</repositories>

			<pluginRepositories>
				<pluginRepository>
					<id>jidoka</id>
					<url>https://company.appiancloud.com/rpa-repo/repository/jidoka/</url>
					<releases>
					</releases>
					<snapshots>
					</snapshots>
				</pluginRepository>
			</pluginRepositories>
			<distributionManagement>
				<repository>
					<id>jidoka</id>
					<url>https://company.appiancloud.com/rpa-repo/repository/jidoka/</url>
					<layout>default</layout>
				</repository>
			</distributionManagement>
		</profile>

	</profiles>

	<dependencies>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>com.novayre.jidoka.module</groupId>
			<artifactId>jidoka-browser-api</artifactId>
			<version>${jidoka.version}</version>
		</dependency>
	</dependencies>
</project>