Article - CS233460

Best practice when calling Platform-side services from within ThingWorx Java Extension SDK​

Modified: 13-Mar-2017   


Applies To

  • ThingWorx Platform 6.5 to 7.3

Description

  • All supported APIs for Extension development appear in the included Javadoc
  • List of deprecated services in Extension SDK version 6.6 and newer
  • How to create and delete things on the Platform from Extension SDK services
  • How to retrieve existing things on the Platform for modification and use in the Extension SDK
  • How to check tags, thing templates, and thing shapes of things on the Platform
  • How to check if file exists in file repository
  • Do I need to update the metadata.xml file to be compatible with ThingWorx in newer versions of the Extension SDK?
  • Entities should not call upon lowercase methods via dot operator if uppercase methods with same names exist
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