Invoking Microagent Methods
This dialog displays information about the microagent method and provides fields you can specify input parameters when either invoking or subscribing to the method.
Method
Displays general information about the microagent method:
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Name —The name of the microagent method. |
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Description — Description of the microagent method. |
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Type — Type of the microagent method, either Synchronous or Asynchronous. |
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Impact — The function performed by the method and can be one of the following types: |
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IMPACT_INFO returns information. |
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IMPACT_ACTION performs an action on the TIBCO Hawk system. |
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IMPACT_ACTION_INFO both returns information and performs an action based on it. |
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Time Out — The method invocation timeout value in milliseconds. |
Invocation
Parameters — Displays the following elements for the parameters:
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Name — Name of the input argument. |
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Value — Value of the input argument. |
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Type — Data type of the argument. |
Description — Description of the argument.
Subscribe — Available for methods of type IMPACT_INFO
and IMPACT_ACTION_INFO
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. Information is returned by the method either synchronously or asynchronously.
If the Subscribe checkbox is selected, the following fields are displayed along with the default values:
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Data Interval — The time interval for collection data points. Available when subscribing to synchronous methods. |
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History — The number of data points you want to see for the historical data set. |
Even though a method may return data asynchronously, the result will not be updated until the page is refreshed.