topic Re: Gettting the stream an app is published to .net SDK in Integration, Extension & APIs

Gettting the stream an app is published to .net SDK

Fri, 30 Sep 2016 15:50:37 GMT

Hi Guys

I am working with the .net SDK building a set of administration utils.

I am currently trying to find the stream of an application to do this I use

appIdentifier.Meta.Get<string>("stream");

I have tried this iterating through all apps in a collection and on specific apps that I know are published.

The above code always returns an empty string.

Is there another way to find the stream of an app via the sdk?

Re: Gettting the stream an app is published to .net SDK

Alexander_Thor — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 18:25:14 GMT

Excuse my lack of knowledge on the .Net SDK but the underlying Engine API method that would return this is GetAppProperties on the App class. It should be a full dynamic property named stream that contains the id and full-text name of the stream.

Now I'm just taking a guess and thinking that this method in the SDK should map to the same Engine API method

App.GetAppProperties Method

Re: Gettting the stream an app is published to .net SDK

konrad_mattheis — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 12:39:14 GMT

Hi Simon,

the stream is not a string, see:

"stream": {
		"id": "a70ca8a5-1d59-4cc9-b5fa-6e207978dcaf",
		"name": "Monitoring apps"
	},

So you can not fetch it width Get<string>("stream");, you have to define a structure with (id & name) and than you can fetch it.

bye Konrad

Re: Gettting the stream an app is published to .net SDK

Mon, 03 Oct 2016 09:33:54 GMT

Thanks guys I think you have set me in the correct direction.

I have created a Type BIStream that inherits Qlik.Engine.AbstractStructure

I have defined the type like so

public string id

        {

            get

            {

                return Get<string>("id");

            }

            set

            {

                Set("id", value);

            }

        }

        public string name

        {

            get

            {

                return Get<string>("name");

            }

            set

            {

                Set("name", value);

            }

        }

I have also tried id defined as a guid.

I have tried using this to get the stream infor like so

app.GetAppProperties().Get<BIStream>("stream");

Both properties are being returned empty. Feels like I am still missing part of the puzzle. Should i be inheriting from Qlik.Engine.AbstractStructure? Are there any examples that would be of interest?

Re: Gettting the stream an app is published to .net SDK

Øystein_Kolsrud — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 12:53:41 GMT

You can always access it as an instance of the AbstractStructure Class. Then you could do something like this:

var streamName = myprop.Get<AbstractStructure>("stream").Get<string>("name");

Re: Gettting the stream an app is published to .net SDK

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 08:20:20 GMT

Hi Øystein that did the trick thank you. Thanks to everyone else too.

Re: Gettting the stream an app is published to .net SDK

Øystein_Kolsrud — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 08:52:18 GMT

It looks to me like what you are doing here is perfectly correct. Actually that is exactly how the client structures are implemented in the SDK. Are you sure the app is actually in a stream? It could be that the value of stream for your specific app is simply "null".

You might want to have a look at the full contents of the App properties. You can do this by printing the output of the GetAppProperties operation to the console like this:

using (new DebugConsole())
{
  app.GetAppProperties();
}

That should make it possible for you to see first hand what the contents of the "stream" property is.

As for examples, there is some information relating to AbstractStructure at the following location:

http://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense-developer/3.1/Subsystems/NetSDKAPI/Content/CodeExamples/Abstract-Structure.htm

Re: Gettting the stream an app is published to .net SDK

amien — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 11:11:02 GMT

Any idea why this gives an error on the second line?

Console.WriteLine("AppId : " + appIdentifier.AppId);

Console.WriteLine("Stream : " + appIdentifier.Meta.Get<AbstractStructure>("stream").Get<string>("name"));

An unhandled exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException'

Re: Gettting the stream an app is published to .net SDK

Øystein_Kolsrud — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 11:44:54 GMT

My guess is that the "stream" property of the Meta object is null. To verify that you can print the full structure of Meta by doing like this:

Console.WriteLine(appIdentifier.Meta.PrintStructure());

That will show you the full json structure of the Meta object.

Re: Gettting the stream an app is published to .net SDK

amien — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:30:14 GMT

Stream : {"modifiedDate":"2017-03-10T18:50:05.068Z","published":false,"publishTime":"1753-01-01T00:00:00Z","privileges":["read","update","delete"],"description":"","qFileSize":220076,"dynamicColor":"","create":null,"stream":null,"canCreateDataConnections":false}

Stream Null means it's in "Work" "Sheet" right?

Isn't it possible to create the information directly from the stream part in the repository? I mean getting the streams names and apps within a stream from the hub instead of an app?

Re: Gettting the stream an app is published to .net SDK

Øystein_Kolsrud — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 08:37:29 GMT

Yes, I believe that null for stream means that it's in "Work".

You could probably use this endpoint to get the information you want from the QRS instead:

App: Get hub list ‒ Qlik Sense