Missing attributes on Orion CB Entity when registering device through IDAS

Question

I've had some troubles getting the expected results doing the exercises from http://www.slideshare.net/FI-WARE/io-t-basicexercisesdevelopersweek

No problem when registering a new device, its entity it's also successfully created on Orion CB but when querying for the created Entity non of the device attributes are shown. Created Entity just have TimeInstant attribute.

I get a 200 response code when sending observations but it apparently has noeffect since Entity attributes on CB are missing.

Registering device

URL: /iot/devices
Method: POST
Payload:

JSON

{
 "devices": [
    {
        "device_id": "14:da:e9",
        "entity_name": "Thing12",
        "entity_type": "Thing12Type",
        "protocol": "PDI-IoTA-UltraLight",
        "timezone": "Europe/Madrid",
        "attributes": [
            {
                "name": "weight",
                "type": "double",
                "object_id": "weight"
            },
            {
                "name": "valid",
                "type": "boolean",
                "object_id": "valid"
            }
        ]
    }
 ]
}

Listing devices

URL: /iot/devices/14:da:e9
Method: GET

JSON

{
"device_id": "14:da:e9",
"entity_name": "Thing12",
"entity_type": "Thing12Type",
"protocol": "PDI-IoTA-UltraLight",
"timezone": "Europe/Madrid",
"attributes": [
    {
        "name": "weight",
        "type": "double",
        "object_id": "weight"
    },
    {
        "name": "valid",
        "type": "boolean",
        "object_id": "valid"
    }
],
"service": "openiot",
"service_path": "/"
}

Querying CB

URL: /ngsi10/contextEntities/Thing12
Method: GET

JSON

{
"contextElement": {
    "type": "Thing12Type",
    "isPattern": "false",
    "id": "Thing12",
    "attributes": [
        {
            "name": "TimeInstant",
            "type": "ISO8601",
            "value": "2015-06-25T13:07:18.354970Z"
        }
    ]
},
"statusCode": {
    "code": "200",
    "reasonPhrase": "OK"
}
}

Ironically, if I send observations for a non existing device on IDAS, a brand new entity is created at Orion CB with the corresponding attributes and values. By using the created entityId ("thing:"+URLGivenInventedId) I can even update every attributes' values which is, obviously, the expected behaviour. What am I missing? — arkabide

arkabide arkabide · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-14T10:21:54

The problem seems to be on image orion-psb-image-R4.2. After launching a new instance (CentOS-6.3init) and installing every component manually the problem seem solved. Maybe a conflict between versions in previous instance.

Missing attributes on Orion CB Entity when registering device through IDAS

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