Created question in FIWARE Q/A platform on 05-07-2017 at 16:07
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Question:
Can't store attribute's value with properly type using IoTAgentUL
Description:
I need to store the values of devices' attributes with the right type in OrionCB's MongoDB.
As I was unable to perform that I dived into the code and found that IoTAgentUL (as well as IoTAgentJSON) uses OrionCB's API v1 instead of API v2.
As I can see API v1's updateContext sends data to MongoDB without it's type, so every measure is stored as text.
In the other hand I found that API v2's update entity send data to MongoDB with it's type. It produces that I can store attribute's values with it's type which benefits me when manipulating data (i.e. creating indexes, sorting, etc).
My question is if is there any workaround to solve this using the current implementations of IoT Agents.
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