Task List

Spark Spark Dev
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Hi people,

Any one has any idea if Spark’s Task List can be accessed programatically (by Java code) in a way that Events can be entered not only via Spark, but also dynamically via code? I managed to add a Task by using the Tasks and Task class, but there appears to be no field for the date of the task which is going to be inputted. Thus when a task is entered from code in this way, no date appears.

Any one has any idea how this can be done?

Thanks

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Tasks tasks = new Tasks();
Task task = new Task();
task.setTitle("Title");
task.setDueDate( dueDate );
task.setCreatedDate( nowDate );
tasks.addTask(task);
Tasks.saveTasks(tasks, SparkManager.getConnection());
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Hi Konstantin,

Thanks for your reply. Regarding:

task.setDueDate( dueDate );
task.setCreatedDate( nowDate );

According to the api these methods are not implemented: http://www.igniterealtime.org/builds/sparkplug_kit/docs/latest/api/index.html

Is it a problem if you give me the page of the api where you found them, since it would be great if they work! I just tried them and inserted a date of data type Date instead of dueDate and nowDate and even tried it with a String data type, and the setDueDate and setCreatedDate still seem to be pointing that they don’t exist :S

Thanks once again for your help.

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API documentation of Spark is out of date. And this is really problem. You could generate last version using Spark sources and command :

ant documentation

This two methods uses long as params. you could use Date object

task.setDueDate( dueDate );
task.setCreatedDate( nowDate );
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Thanks for your answer…

I am not using svn for Spark, but the jar files that I downloaded at the beginning when I started using Spark.

What do I have to do to update them? And could you please explain again from where I get see the updated documentation?

Thanks a lot for your support, it is much appreciated.

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You need to download source files of spark (you could do this from svn). And build it using ant documentation.

what OS do you use for development ?

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I use Windows for development. Is http://svn.igniterealtime.org/svn/repos/spark/trunk/ the svn website from where to download it? And is there the correct build.xml file to use ANT and build it?

Thanks!!

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Forget about the previous post I managed to set it.

I managed to get around a long Data type, although it does not make much sense and is not user friendly.

if anyone wants to use it he/she has to declare it as follows:

Calendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar(2010,0,17); (2010 - year, 0 - month, 17 - day)

long dueDate = calendar.getTime().getTime();