List composition units using programming

We can list the composition units for a specific business-level application so that we can complete further composition unit administration, such as deleting or adding composition units. A composition unit is typically created from a business-level application or an asset and contains configuration information that makes the asset runnable.

This task assumes a basic familiarity with command framework programming. Read about command framework programming in the APIs documentation.

Before we can list composition units, have imported an asset, created an empty business-level application, and added a composition unit to the business-level application.

We can list composition units using programming, the admin console, or wsadmin. This page describes how to list composition units using programming.

You must provide the blaID parameter to specify the business-level application to list the composition unit. When you list composition units for a business-level application, optionally list the type for each composition unit and the description for each composition unit that has a description. Use the list to complete further administration, such as deleting or exporting composition units.

Perform the following tasks to list composition units for a business-level application using programming.

 

1. Connect to the appserver.

   The command framework allows the admin command to be created and run with or without being connected to the appserver. This step is optional if the application server is not running.

2. Create the command manager.

   The command manager provides the functionality to create a new admin command or query existing administrative commands.

3. Optionally create the asynchronous command handler for listening to command notifications.

   Business-level application commands are implemented as asynchronous commands. To monitor the progress of the running command, we have to create an asynchronous command handler to receive notifications that the command generates.

4. Create the asynchronous command client.

   An asynchronous command client provides a higher level interface to work with an asynchronous command. If we created an asynchronous command handler in the previous step, the handler is passed to the asynchronous command client. The asynchronous command client forwards the command notification to the handler and helps to control running of the command.

5. Use the command manager createdd in a previous step to create and set up the command that lists composition units.

   The command name is listCompUnits. The blaID parameter is a required parameter that you use to specify the business-level application to list the composition units. We can optionally set the includeDescription parameter to display the composition unit descriptions. We can also optionally set the includeType parameter to display the composition unit types.

6. Call the processCommandParameters method in the asynchronous command client to process the command parameters.

   The command framework asynchronous command model requires this call.

7. Call the asynchronous command client to list the composition units.

   We might have created an asynchronous command handler to implement the AsyncCommandHandlerIF interface class in a previous step. If we did, the asynchronous command client listens to command notifications and forwards the notifications to the handler. The handler performs any necessary actions while waiting for the command to complete.

8. Check the command result when the command completes.

   When the command finishes running, control is returned to the caller. We can then check the result by calling the command.getCommandResult method.

 

Results

After you successfully run the code, a list of composition units for a business-level application is displayed.

 

Example

The following example shows how to list the composition units of a specific business-level application based on the previous steps. Some statements are split on multiple lines for printing purposes.

package com.ibm.ws.management.application.task;
 import java.util.Properties;
 import com.ibm.websphere.management.AdminClient;
 import com.ibm.websphere.management.AdminClientFactory;
 import com.ibm.websphere.management.Session;
 import com.ibm.websphere.management.cmdframework.AdminCommand;
 import com.ibm.websphere.management.cmdframework.CommandMgr;
 import com.ibm.websphere.management.cmdframework.CommandResult;
 import com.ibm.websphere.management.async.client.AsyncCommandClient;
 public class ListCompUnits {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        try {

            
// Connect to the appserver.
            
// This step is optional if we use the local
            
// command manager. comment out the lines to and including
            
// CommandMgr cmdMgr = CommandMgr.getClientCommandMgr(
            
// soapClient);
            
// to get the soapClient soap client if we use the local
            
// command manager.

            String host = "localhost";
            String port = "8880"; 
// Change to the port number if 
                                          
// it is not 8880.
  
            Properties config = new Properties();
            config.put(AdminClient.CONNECTOR_HOST, host);
            config.put(AdminClient.CONNECTOR_PORT, port);
            config.put(AdminClient.CONNECTOR_TYPE, AdminClient.CONNECTOR_TYPE_SOAP);
            System.out.println("Config: " + config);
            AdminClient soapClient = 
                        AdminClientFactory.createAdminClient(config);
  
            
// Create the command manager.
            CommandMgr cmdMgr = CommandMgr.getClientCommandMgr(soapClient);
  
            
// Comment out the previous lines to create a client command
            
// manager if we are using a local command manager.
            
// Uncomment the following line to create a local command
            
// manager:
            
//
            
// CommandMgr cmdMgr = CommandMgr.getCommandMgr();
            System.out.println("\nCreated command manager");
  
            
// Optionally create an asynchronous command handler.
            
// Comment out the following line if no further handling
            
// of command notification is required:
            AsyncCmdTaskHandler listener = new AsyncCmdTaskHandler();
  
            
// Create an asynchronous command client.
  
            
// Set up the session.
            String id = Long.toHexString(System.currentTimeMillis());
            String user = "content" + id;
            Session session = new Session(user, true);
  
            
// If no command handler is used, replace the listener with
            
// null for the AsyncCommandClient object.
            AsyncCommandClient asyncCmdClientHelper = new  
                          AsyncCommandClient(session, listener);
            System.out.println("\nCreated async command client");
  
            
// Create the command that lists the composition units.
            String cmdName = "listCompUnits";
            AdminCommand cmd = cmdMgr.createCommand(cmdName);
            cmd.setConfigSession(session); 
// List all the compostion units
                                           
// for the business-level application                                     
// with this session ID.
            System.out.println("\nCreated " + cmdName);
    
            
// Set the blaID parameter to the business-level application 
            
// whose composition units are listing.
            
// Examples of valid formats for the blaID parameter are:    
            
// - bName   
            
// - blaname=bName  
            
// - WebSphere:blaname=bName
            
// This parameter accepts an incomplete ID as long as the incomplete
            
// ID can resolve to a unique business-level application.  
            String blaID = "bla1";
            cmd.setParameter("blaID", blaID);                

            System.out.println("\nSet blaID parameter to "
                                 + cmd.getParameter("blaID"));
                 
            
// Optionally include descriptions for each composition unit 
            
// that has a description by setting
            
// the includeDescription parameter to true or false.
            String includeDescription = "true";
            cmd.setParameter("includeDescription", includeDescription);
        
            System.out.println("\nSet includeDescription parameter to "
                                + cmd.getParameter("includeDescription"));
            
// Optionally include types for each composition unit 
            
// by setting the includeType parameter to true or false.
            String includeType = "true";
            cmd.setParameter("includeType", includeType);
        
            System.out.println("\nSet includeType parameter to "
                            + cmd.getParameter("includeType"));
        
            
// Call the asynchronous client helper to process parameters.
            try {               
                asyncCmdClientHelper.processCommandParameters(cmd);
                System.out.println("\nCompleted process command " + 
                                            "parameters");
            } catch (Throwable th) {
                System.out.println("Failed from " + 
                    "asyncCmdClientHelper.processCommandParameters(cmd).");
                th.printStackTrace();
                System.exit(-1);
            }
        
            
// Run the command to list the composition units.
            asyncCmdClientHelper.execute(cmd);
            System.out.println("\nCompleted running of command");
  
            
// Check the command result.
            CommandResult result = cmd.getCommandResult();
            if (result != null) {
                if (result.isSuccessful()) {
                    System.out.println("\nCommand ran successfully "
                                   + "with result\n" + result.getResult());
                } 
                else {
                    System.out.println("\nCommand ran with " + 
                                         "Exception");
                    result.getException().printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

 package com.ibm.ws.management.application.task;
 import com.ibm.websphere.management.cmdframework.provider.CommandNotification;
 import com.ibm.websphere.management.async.client.AsyncCommandHandlerIF;
 public class AsyncCmdTaskHandler implements AsyncCommandHandlerIF {

    public void handleNotification(CommandNotification notification) {
        
// Add our own code here to handle the received notification
        System.out.println("\nEXAMPLE: notification received: " +   
                            notification);
    }
}

 

Next steps

Now that we have listed the composition units for a business-level application, we can complete other tasks associated with composition units, such as adding or deleting composition units.

Additional Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)

 

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