Overview

In Che there is a bunch of project operations that can be performed via REST, JSON-RPC or programmatically (on server side). Most valuable will be covered by this chapter.

Project import

In is possible to import a project using several ways, Che supports project import via REST, JSON-RPC and ProjectManager, those will be described further with examples.

Using REST to import a project

Most popular way of project import for clients is using corresponding REST service org.eclipse.che.api.project.server.ProjectService. It has quite extensive API, so please check the service to have complete understanding of it’s capabilities. In Eclipse Che IDE there is already implemented org.eclipse.che.ide.project.ProjectServiceClient that we can use in order to communicate with project service. Most basic use case is:

Path path = Path.valueOf("/DemoProject");

String location = "location";
String storage = "git";
Map<String, String> parameters = new HashMap<String, String>() {
                  {
                    put("branch", "master");
                    put("commitId", "123456");
                    put("keepVcs", "true");
                    put("fetch", "12345");
                    put("keepDir", "/src");
                  }
                }

SourceStorageDto sourceStorage = dtoFactory.createDto(SourceStorageDto.class);
sourceStorage.setLocation(location);
sourceStorage.setStorage(git);
sourceStorage.setParameters();

projectServiceClient.importProject(path, sourceStorage)
                    .then((ignored)->{});

Where:

path - project path in workspace file system

sourceStorage - source storage metadata container

location - project location in a storage (can be URL, or any other storage dependent location descriptor)

storage - storage identifier, in our example it is "git"

parameters - storage related parameters

Example can be found here

Using JSON-RPC to import a project

Another approach is to use JSON-RPC calls instead of REST, that may be more convenient for JSON-RPC based clients. JSON-RPC service is represented by a range of JSON-RPC method handlers that are all configured within org.eclipse.che.api.project.server.ProjectJsonRpcServiceConfigurator class and utilize JSON-RPC protocol Eclipse Che implementation. In order to import a project we must call "project/import" method, that has org.eclipse.che.api.project.shared.dto.service.ImportRequestDto as request params and org.eclipse.che.api.project.shared.dto.service.ImportResponseDto as a result. Inside those DTOs you will need to configure org.eclipse.che.api.core.model.workspace.config.SourceStorage in order to start import procedure and will receive org.eclipse.che.api.core.model.workspace.config.ProjectConfig after import is finished. Most basic example is:

String projectWsPath = "/DemoProject"

String method = "project/import";
String endpointId = "ws-agent";

String location = "location";
String storage = "git";
Map<String, String> parameters = new HashMap<String, String>() {
                  {
                    put("branch", "master");
                    put("commitId", "123456");
                    put("keepVcs", "true");
                    put("fetch", "12345");
                    put("keepDir", "/src");
                  }
                }

SourceStorageDto sourceStorage = dtoFactory.createDto(SourceStorageDto.class);
sourceStorage.setLocation(location);
sourceStorage.setStorage(git);
sourceStorage.setParameters();


ImportRequestDto params = dtoFactory.createDto(ImportRequestDto.class);
params.setWsPath(projectWsPath);
params.setSourceStorage(sourceStorage);

Class<?> resultClass = ImportResponseDto.class;

    requestTransmitter
        .newRequest()
        .endpointId(endpointId)
        .methodName(method)
        .paramsAsDto(params)
        .sendAndReceiveResultAsDto(resultClass)
        .onSuccess((importResponse) -> {})
        .onFailure((jsonRpcError) -> {});

Where:

method - JSON-RPC compliant method name that we want to call on server side, in our case it is "project/import"

endpointId - identifier of endpoint where we want to call our method, in our case it is "ws-agent"

projectWsPath - project path in workspace file system

resultClass - class of resulting dto

importResponse - import response DTO that contains business logic objects, in our case it contains imported project configuration

Using ProjectManager to import a project

On server side we can use org.eclipse.che.api.project.server.ProjectManager in order to perform project import operations. Most basic use case:

BiConsumer<String, String> consumer = (s1, s2) -> {};

boolean rewrite = false;

String projectWsPath = "/DemoProject"

String location = "location";
String storage = "git";
Map<String, String> parameters = new HashMap<String, String>() {
                  {
                    put("branch", "master");
                    put("commitId", "123456");
                    put("keepVcs", "true");
                    put("fetch", "12345");
                    put("keepDir", "/src");
                  }
                }

SourceStorageDto sourceStorage = DtoFactory.newInstance().createDto(SourceStorageDto.class);
sourceStorage.setLocation(location);
sourceStorage.setStorage(git);
sourceStorage.setParameters();

projectManager.doImport(projectWsPath, sourceStorage, rewrite, consumer);

Where:

consumer - binary consumer that may accept project import progression reports as string lines and pass it further, e.g. it is used to track project import progression on clients

rewrite - boolean parameter to indicate if an old project can be rewritten by new one during import

Example can be found here

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