Is there any way to create multiple records at once in BMC Remedy using Java?

Question

Is it good to get the ARServerUser context once and call the setEntry method multiple times in the loop or, is there any better way to do this?

Answer 1

The API provides this. Look in the ARServerUser javadoc:

It is used like this:

//connect to AR server
ARServerUser server = new ARServerUser();
server.setServer("localhost");
server.setUser("Demo");
server.setPassword("");
// begin bulk transaction
server.beginBulkEntryTransaction();
//create and submit Entry Objects

for(int x = 0; x < 10; x++){
  try {
        Entry entry = new Entry();
        entry.put(Constants.AR_CORE_SUBMITTER, new Value(submitter));
        entry.put(Constants.AR_CORE_STATUS,new Value(status, DataType.ENUM));
        entry.put(Constants.AR_CORE_SHORT_DESCRIPTION, new Value(shortDesc));
        entryIdOut = server.createEntry(formName, entry);
    } catch (ARException e) {
        ARExceptionHandler(e, "Cannot create the entry." );
    }
}
//Commit Bulk transaction: all entries are saved to Remedy
 List<BulkEntryReturn>  bulkIds = server.endBulkEntryTransaction(Constants.AR_BULK_ENTRY_ACTION_SEND);
 //bulkIds now contains all the entry Ids for your committed entries

Note that the code above has some uninitialized variables, so will not run as is (and may throw an ARBulkException)