# Find paths of all tags in default provider **URL:** \ **Category:** Module Development\ **Tags:** ignition79\ **Created:** [May 24, 2019, 1:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-paths-of-all-tags-in-default-provider/25293 "2019-05-24T13:04:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fyousuf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee59a6/32.png) [@fyousuf](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/fyousuf)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 1:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-paths-of-all-tags-in-default-provider/25293/1 "2019-05-24T13:04:12Z")
I’m attempting to read all tags in the gateway from the default provider and copy those to a database. I’m able to do so if I hard-code each tagpath using TagPathParser.parse(“string path”) , but is what is the way to do so without hard-coding? If I do: ```auto TagPath path = TagPathParser.parse("[default]"); Listtag=browse(path); ``` Is there a way to get the tagpaths of the list of tags? Any help is appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![MMaynard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mmaynard/32/3366_2.png) [@MMaynard](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/MMaynard)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 1:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-paths-of-all-tags-in-default-provider/25293/2 "2019-05-24T13:15:43Z")
```auto def getAllTags(tagPath): appRoot = tagPath browseTagArray = system.tag.browseTags(parentPath="[default]"+appRoot,recursive=True) tagDataset = [] tagHeaders = ['name', 'fullPath', 'type', 'dataType'] for browseTag in browseTagArray: if not browseTag.isFolder(): tagDataset.append([browseTag.name, browseTag.fullPath, browseTag.type, browseTag.dataType]); return system.dataset.toDataSet(tagHeaders, tagDataset) ``` This function will take a passed root folder and parse ALL the tags below that and return it as a dataset. Be careful if you have a very large tag database, this could take a long time. ---
**Author:** ![fyousuf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee59a6/32.png) [@fyousuf](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/fyousuf)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 1:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-paths-of-all-tags-in-default-provider/25293/3 "2019-05-24T13:47:09Z")
I assume I’ll need to download jython, then (sorry, I’m pretty new to java). Thank you, I’ll try this. ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 1:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-paths-of-all-tags-in-default-provider/25293/4 "2019-05-24T13:49:31Z")
I don’t think he realized this was a module SDK question (this _is_ a module SDK question, right?) ---
**Author:** ![fyousuf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee59a6/32.png) [@fyousuf](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/fyousuf)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 1:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-paths-of-all-tags-in-default-provider/25293/5 "2019-05-24T13:50:45Z")
Yes, it is. ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 1:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-paths-of-all-tags-in-default-provider/25293/6 "2019-05-24T13:52:43Z")
You’ll want to use `TagManager#browseAsync`, starting with the TagPath you built to the provider, and then continuing to browse recursively for all the results you get at each level. ---
**Author:** ![fyousuf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee59a6/32.png) [@fyousuf](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/fyousuf)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-paths-of-all-tags-in-default-provider/25293/7 "2019-05-24T19:25:17Z")
So I’m using the 7.9 API and I still haven’t been able to access the tags. I assume my problem is that my nextNode string in getChildPath is empty? The project compiles but there’s no change to the database. ```auto public void findTags() throws IOException { String nextNode=""; dpath = TagPathParser.parse("[default]"); tag = context.getTagManager().getTagProvider("[default]").browse(dpath); temppath=dpath; while (tag.isEmpty()==true) { temppath = temppath.getChildPath(nextNode); tag = context.getTagManager().getTagProvider("[default]").browse(temppath); } String tagname=tag.get(0).getName(); TagPath name = TagPathParser.parse(tagname); TagPath parent = name.getParentPath(); TagPath reversepath[]=new TagPath[]{}; TagPath temparr[]=new TagPath[] {}; while(parent!=dpath) { TagPath pathslash = BasicTagPath.append(parent, TagPathParser.parse("/")); temparr[0]= pathslash; parent=parent.getParentPath(); reversepath=ArrayUtils.addAll(reversepath, temparr); } for (int i=((reversepath.length)-1);i>=0;i--) { wholepath= BasicTagPath.append(wholepath,reversepath[i]); } wholepath = BasicTagPath.append(dpath, wholepath); wholepath=BasicTagPath.append(wholepath, name); readingTag(); } public void readingTag() throws IOException{ listpaths.add(wholepath); TagListener listener = new TagListener(wholepath) { }; context.getTagManager().subscribe(wholepath, listener); tags= context.getTagManager().read(listpaths); tagvalue = (int)tags.get(0).getValue(); tagqual = tags.get(0).getQuality(); Date df = tags.get(0).getTimestamp(); DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd' 'HH:mm:ss", Locale.getDefault()); tagdate = dateFormat.format(df); tagpath = listpaths.get(0); datacopy(tagpath,tagvalue,tagqual,tagdate); } public void datacopy(TagPath tp,int value, Quality qual, String date) { try { dbconnection = GatewayHook.context.getDatasourceManager().getConnection("ModTest");//connect to db } catch (SQLException e) { logger.fatal("Database connection failed.",e); } String query = String.format("INSERT INTO [ModTAGS].[dbo].[ModuleTags] (TagName, TagValue, TagQuality, TagTimeStamp) VALUES ('%s',%d,'%s','%s')",tp,value,qual,date);//insert tag list try { dbconnection.runPrepQuery(query);//insert tag list } catch (SQLException e) { logger.fatal("SQL copy fail",e); } } ``` ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 7:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-paths-of-all-tags-in-default-provider/25293/8 "2019-05-24T19:28:14Z")
I’d start by adding a bunch of logging to let you know how far you’re getting and if you’re getting the data you expect at each step. ---
**Author:** ![MMaynard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mmaynard/32/3366_2.png) [@MMaynard](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/MMaynard)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-paths-of-all-tags-in-default-provider/25293/9 "2019-05-24T20:15:40Z")
Ahh man, sorry about that, I browse using latest posts, not by category. 😊 ---
**Author:** ![fyousuf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee59a6/32.png) [@fyousuf](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/fyousuf)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 8:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-paths-of-all-tags-in-default-provider/25293/10 "2019-05-24T20:21:01Z")
Not a problem! ---
**Author:** ![fyousuf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee59a6/32.png) [@fyousuf](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/fyousuf)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 1:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-paths-of-all-tags-in-default-provider/25293/11 "2019-05-28T13:26:47Z")
It appears the problem is with my .getChildPath(nextNode) statement since no it returns the name of the tag provider ("[default]"): ```auto TagPath dPath=TagPathParser.parse("[default]"); TagPath cPath=dPath.getChildPath("[default]"); nextNode = cPath.getItemName(); TagPath cPath2 = cPath.getChildPath(nextNode); String sPath = cPath2.getItemName(); ``` sPath (and cPath2) appear to be “[default]” and I can’t get the folder below it. What am I missing in the getChildPath parameters? ---
**Author:** ![fyousuf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee59a6/32.png) [@fyousuf](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/fyousuf)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 2:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-paths-of-all-tags-in-default-provider/25293/12 "2019-05-29T14:59:21Z")
In case anyone has time, I’m trying to find the the path to a tag that may be nested inside a folder: [default]/FolderName/Tag. However, getChildPath only returns the nextNode string parameter as a tagpath, not the child of that string. Is getChildPath the right way to go about this? ```auto TagPath dPath=TagPathParser.parse("[default]"); TagPath cPath=dPath.getChildPath("[default]"); nextNode = cPath.getItemName(); TagPath cPath2 = cPath.getChildPath(nextNode); String sPath = cPath2.getItemName(); ``` sPath (and cPath2) appear to be “[default]” and I can’t get the folder below it. ---
**Author:** ![fyousuf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee59a6/32.png) [@fyousuf](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/fyousuf)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-paths-of-all-tags-in-default-provider/25293/13 "2019-05-29T16:57:09Z")
Figured it out! I assumed using `browse("[default]")` returned an empty collection, but a folder is treated as a tag, so the name of the first folder is returned. ```auto tag = context.getTagManager().getTagProvider("default").browse(dpath); //tag.get(0) is TestPath (a folder in the tagprovider) ```