Setting up a property request

A VersionVault CM API client application must acquire a proxy to a resource before it can read or update properties. Before a client can access properties from a proxy it must read those properties from the resource into a proxy. The client application must include the name of the properties in a property request when reading them from the resource into a proxy. For example:

// Create a PropertyRequest - specify the names of 
// properties wanted from the resource. 
PropertyRequest myPropList1 =
  new PropertyRequest(Resource.COMMENT,
                      Resource.CONTENT_LENGTH,
                      Resource.CONTENT_TYPE,
                      Resource.CREATOR_DISPLAY_NAME,
                      Resource.DISPLAY_NAME);

For a specific resource interface, you can specify properties defined in the interface itself or any of the interfaces it extends. For example,

PropertyRequest myPropRequest =
     new PropertyRequest(StpResource.USER_FRIENDLY_LOCATION,
                         Resource.DISPLAY_NAME,
                // include properties specific to versions
                         CcVersion.BRANCH,
                         CcVersion.ELEMENT.
                // properties inherited from parents
                         Version.LABEL_NAME_LIST,
                         CcVobResource.VOB};