The purpose of this project is to automate the exporting of ThingWorx entities for source control into a ThingWorx FileRepository. From there it would be possible to use git to automatically commit changes.
This project contains:
- a file repository entity
- a helper thing
- a timer
The FileRepository entity has a service called init that should be manually called once (invoke it from ThingWorx Composer after you import this project).
The Timer entity raises a Timer event once per minute (configurable).
The Helper entity has two properties, two services and a subscription
The subscription reacts to the Timer event and exports for source control all projects referenced from the Projects property of the Helper entity. The subscription eventually invokes the Export service.
The Projects property is a JSON string that contains a projects key which is an array of project names: all projects that would be exported by the subscrption above.
There is no direct GIT interaction yet, but the init service of the FileRepository entity generates a PowerShell script that could be used to automatically commit exported source.
The idea is that each folder under the FileRepository folder in ThingWorx storage is a local git repository. You need to run a git init command in each exported folder before running the PowerShell script.
The PowerShell script commits each minute all changes.