How does one use the ThingConnectivity class in the SDKs? There is no way to set the thing name.

Question

How does one use the ThingConnectivity class in the IOT SDKs (it is in many of the SDKs, I am using .NET)?  There is no way to set the thing name.  I have not been able to find any examples online of using this class.  This class has a property, connected, which indicates if the thing is connected.  I also looked at other language SDKs and these seem to have the same problem.  Is there a way to return this object from somewhere rather than just instantiating it with "new"?

Accepted Answer

Hi Don. The `ThingConnectivity` object is returned by the `ThingDocument` object:

* https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-net/blob/master/sdk/src/Services/IoT/Generated/Model/ThingDocument.cs#L69
* https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/apireference/API_ThingDocument.html

You can get a list of `ThingDocument` objects by searching the fleet index:

* https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdkfornet/v3/apidocs/items/IoT/MIoTSearchIndexSearchIndexRequest.html
* https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdkfornet/v3/apidocs/items/IoT/TSearchIndexResponse.html

This uses AWS IoT fleet indexing: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/managing-fleet-index.html. So fleet indexing will need to be enabled in your account.

* https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/apireference/API_UpdateIndexingConfiguration.html
* https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdkfornet/v3/apidocs/index.html?page=IoT/MIoTUpdateIndexingConfigurationUpdateIndexingConfigurationRequest.html

How does one use the ThingConnectivity class in the SDKs? There is no way to set the thing name.

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