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atc-azure-digitaltwin 3.0.0

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Atc.Azure.DigitalTwin

A .NET library and CLI tool for managing Azure Digital Twins — providing DTDL model validation, twin lifecycle management, relationship handling, event route configuration, telemetry publishing, and bulk import.

• 🏗️ Model Management — create, retrieve, decommission, and delete DTDL models with dependency-aware ordering
• 🔗 Twin & Relationship CRUD — create, query, update, and delete digital twins and their relationships
• 🧩 Component Operations — read and update individual twin components
• 📡 Event Routes — create, delete, and list event routes for Digital Twin endpoints
• 📊 Telemetry Publishing — publish telemetry messages for twins and components
• 📦 Bulk Import — import models, twins, and relationships from Azure Blob Storage
• 🔍 Query Engine — execute ADT queries with pagination support
• 📋 DTDL Parser — validate and parse JSON models into Digital Twin interface definitions
• 🖥️ Cross-Platform CLI — global .NET tool for command-line management of Azure Digital Twins
• 💉 DI Integration — ServiceCollection extensions for seamless dependency injection setup

📋 Requirements

• .NET 10 SDK

🚀 Getting Started

Installation

Install the NuGet package:

dotnet add package Atc.Azure.DigitalTwin

Basic Usage

var digitalTwinService = serviceProvider.GetRequiredService<IDigitalTwinService>();

// Retrieve a twin
var twin = await digitalTwinService.GetTwinAsync("my-twin-id");

// Create a relationship
var (succeeded, errorMessage) = await digitalTwinService.CreateRelationshipAsync(
 "source-twin-id",
 "target-twin-id",
 "relatesTo");

Configuring with ServiceCollection Extensions

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
 services.AddSingleton(new DigitalTwinOptions
 {
 TenantId = "your_tenant_id",
 InstanceUrl = "your_instance_url",
 });

 services.ConfigureDigitalTwinsClient();
}

✨ Features

🏗️ IDigitalTwinService

Comprehensive CRUD operations for models, twins, relationships, event routes, telemetry, components, and bulk import within an Azure Digital Twins instance.

var digitalTwinService = serviceProvider.GetRequiredService<IDigitalTwinService>();

// Query twins
var twins = await digitalTwinService.GetTwinsAsync("SELECT * FROM DIGITALTWINS", cancellationToken);

// Update a twin with JSON Patch
var patchDocument = new JsonPatchDocument();
patchDocument.AppendReplace("/temperature", 25.0);
await digitalTwinService.UpdateTwinAsync("my-twin-id", patchDocument, cancellationToken: cancellationToken);

// Manage event routes
await digitalTwinService.CreateOrReplaceEventRouteAsync(
 "my-route",
 "my-endpoint",
 filter: "type = 'Microsoft.DigitalTwins.Twin.Update'",
 cancellationToken: cancellationToken);

// Publish telemetry
await digitalTwinService.PublishTelemetryAsync("my-twin-id", "{\"temperature\": 25.0}");

// Get a twin component
var component = await digitalTwinService.GetComponentAsync<JsonElement>("my-twin-id", "thermostat");

// Bulk import from blob storage
var job = await digitalTwinService.ImportGraphAsync(
 "my-job-id",
 new Uri("https://storage.blob.core.windows.net/container/input.ndjson"),
 new Uri("https://storage.blob.core.windows.net/container/output.ndjson"));

📋 IModelRepositoryService

Local DTDL model storage, loading from directories, validation, and dependency-aware ordering.

var modelRepositoryService = serviceProvider.GetRequiredService<IModelRepositoryService>();
var modelsPath = new DirectoryInfo("path/to/models");

var isValid = await modelRepositoryService.ValidateModelsAsync(modelsPath, cancellationToken);

if (isValid)
{
 await modelRepositoryService.LoadModelContentAsync(modelsPath, cancellationToken);

 // Get models in dependency order (base models first)
 var orderedContent = modelRepositoryService.GetModelsContentInDependencyOrder();
}

🔍 IDigitalTwinParser

Parses JSON DTDL models into Digital Twin interface definitions with validation.

var parser = serviceProvider.GetRequiredService<IDigitalTwinParser>();
var (succeeded, interfaces) = await parser.ParseAsync(jsonModels);

if (succeeded)
{
 foreach (var (dtmi, entity) in interfaces!)
 {
 Console.WriteLine($"Parsed: {dtmi}");
 }
}

🖥️ CLI Tool

👁 NuGet Version

Install

dotnet tool install --global atc-azure-digitaltwin

Update

dotnet tool update --global atc-azure-digitaltwin

Commands

The CLI is organized into command groups:

Model Commands

# Validate models from a directory
atc-azure-digitaltwin model validate -d <directory-path>

# Create all models (dependency-ordered)
atc-azure-digitaltwin model create all --tenantId <tenant-id> -a <adt-instance-url> -d <directory-path>

# Create single model
atc-azure-digitaltwin model create single --tenantId <tenant-id> -a <adt-instance-url> -d <directory-path> -m <model-id>

# Get all models
atc-azure-digitaltwin model get all --tenantId <tenant-id> -a <adt-instance-url>

# Decommission a model
atc-azure-digitaltwin model decommission --tenantId <tenant-id> -a <adt-instance-url> -m <model-id>

# Delete all models
atc-azure-digitaltwin model delete all --tenantId <tenant-id> -a <adt-instance-url>

Twin Commands

# Count twins by model
atc-azure-digitaltwin twin count --tenantId <tenant-id> -a <adt-instance-url>

# Create a twin
atc-azure-digitaltwin twin create --tenantId <tenant-id> -a <adt-instance-url> -t <twin-id> -m <model-id> -modelVersion <version> --jsonPayload <json>

# Get a twin
atc-azure-digitaltwin twin get --tenantId <tenant-id> -a <adt-instance-url> -t <twin-id>

# Update a twin with JSON Patch
atc-azure-digitaltwin twin update --tenantId <tenant-id> -a <adt-instance-url> -t <twin-id> --jsonPatch <json-patch>

# Delete all twins
atc-azure-digitaltwin twin delete all --tenantId <tenant-id> -a <adt-instance-url>

# Manage relationships
atc-azure-digitaltwin twin relationship create --tenantId <tenant-id> -a <adt-instance-url> --source-twinId <src> --target-twinId <tgt> --relationshipName <name>
atc-azure-digitaltwin twin relationship get all --tenantId <tenant-id> -a <adt-instance-url> -t <twin-id>

# Get/update twin components
atc-azure-digitaltwin twin component get --tenantId <tenant-id> -a <adt-instance-url> -t <twin-id> -c <component-name>
atc-azure-digitaltwin twin component update --tenantId <tenant-id> -a <adt-instance-url> -t <twin-id> -c <component-name> --jsonPatch <json-patch>

Event Route Commands

# Create an event route
atc-azure-digitaltwin route create --tenantId <tenant-id> -a <adt-instance-url> -e <route-id> --endpointName <endpoint>

# Get all event routes
atc-azure-digitaltwin route get all --tenantId <tenant-id> -a <adt-instance-url>

# Delete an event route
atc-azure-digitaltwin route delete --tenantId <tenant-id> -a <adt-instance-url> -e <route-id>

Query Command

# Run an ADT query
atc-azure-digitaltwin query --tenantId <tenant-id> -a <adt-instance-url> -q "SELECT * FROM DIGITALTWINS"

Telemetry Command

# Publish telemetry for a twin
atc-azure-digitaltwin telemetry publish --tenantId <tenant-id> -a <adt-instance-url> -t <twin-id> -p '{"temperature": 25.0}'

Import Commands

# Create a bulk import job
atc-azure-digitaltwin import create --tenantId <tenant-id> -a <adt-instance-url> --jobId <job-id> --inputBlobUri <input-uri> --outputBlobUri <output-uri>

# Get import job status
atc-azure-digitaltwin import get single --tenantId <tenant-id> -a <adt-instance-url> --jobId <job-id>

# List all import jobs
atc-azure-digitaltwin import get all --tenantId <tenant-id> -a <adt-instance-url>

# Cancel a running import job
atc-azure-digitaltwin import cancel --tenantId <tenant-id> -a <adt-instance-url> --jobId <job-id>

# Delete an import job
atc-azure-digitaltwin import delete --tenantId <tenant-id> -a <adt-instance-url> --jobId <job-id>

Use --help on any command for detailed options:

atc-azure-digitaltwin --help
atc-azure-digitaltwin model --help
atc-azure-digitaltwin twin relationship get --help

📂 Sample

See the for a complete example demonstrating model validation, twin creation, querying, and cleanup using the DTDL models in the .

🤝 How to contribute

Contribution Guidelines

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