Going from just Rational Team Concert to a full Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management Solution introduces URI based link types. This post answers this forum question about how to follow URI based references to work items.
If you are just starting with extending Rational Team Concert, start reading this and the linked posts to get some guidance on how to set up your environment.
*Update* The post A RTC WorkItem Command Line Version 2 contains downloadable code that performs most of the activities required for reading and modifying work items, including the creation of all kinds of links. The interesting code can be found in the com.ibm.js.team.workitem.commandline.helper package in the class WorkItemHelper. All techniques described below are used there. With respect to links, the code shows which kinds of different location types are used.
I updated the post The RTC WorkItem Client Link API – Linking to Work Items and Other Elements and added client API code to analyze the references for a work item, including URI based links.
The code can be reused in server extensions as well, except for the method analyzeReferenceTarget(). The post The RTC WorkItem Server Link API – Linking to Work Items and Other Elements needed to be updated as well, with server specific code for analyzeReferenceTarget(). If you work on a server extension, get the client code from The RTC WorkItem Client Link API – Linking to Work Items and Other Elements and replace analyzeReferenceTarget() with the code for the server from The RTC WorkItem Server Link API – Linking to Work Items and Other Elements.
As always, license statements in the posts apply to the code and remember that this code comes with the usual lack of promise or guarantee. Enjoy!
rsjazz 