Grouper Developers Forum

["GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing" <>]

Chris,

I've had a quick go importing and exporting and the changes appear to work, 
however, I'm concerned we've made things more difficult than they were - 
which is the opposite of what was intended with a binary release.

Some of the first things I do after checking out from CVS are running 
schemaexport and then doing an import of the quickstart.xml. These used to 
be one liners... I could write GSH scripts but I'd rather not do that - 
especially lots of variants on import/export.

I think we could extend GSH so that we can pass a variable number of 
arguments and have special cases for the main utilities e.g.

gsh -schemaexport [options]
gsh -usdu [options]
gsh -xmlimport [options]
gsh -xmlexport [options]
gsh <file> [args] - with arguments available in GSH
gsh - [args]
gsh -- [args] - no file and no STDIN but allows for args to be passed.

In the meantime, if it is too late to do something along the lines of my 
suggestion, I would vote for keeping the ant targets for 1.4 at least.

BTW I'd like for GSH to be more configurable i.e. a GSH_OPTS environment 
variable and/or a gsh_opts.bat/sh which, if present, is 'sourced' and 
GSH_OPTS added to the Java invocation. Memory options could be moved here 
also. Having GSH_OPTS would make it easier to run GSH with remote debugging 
and / or a profiler.

Gary



--On 15 October 2008 00:05 -0400 Chris Hyzer 
<>
 wrote:

> Hey,
>
>
>
> With the binary release and other reasons we got rid of
> xmlImport/xmlExport from ant so we can use it from GSH.
>
> I didn't know that the GSH export/import didn't cover everything in the
> ant one.
>
>
>
> So I added the features from the ant version into gsh.  However, there
> are a lot of options etc, so I made it a "chained" object.  Documentation
> is here:
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>
>
> https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/GrouperWG/GrouperShell+(gsh
> )#GrouperShell(gsh)-XMLexport
>
> https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/GrouperWG/GrouperShell+(gsh
> )#GrouperShell(gsh)-XMLimport
>
>
>
> My questions are:
>
>
>
> 1.       Gary, can you test this and let me know if I am missing anything
> or doing anything wrong?
>
> 2.       Everyone, can we remove the old GSH xmlImport/xmlExport methods
> (which are not full featured, and which are covered by the new way)?
>
>
>
> Still need to update docs / tests...
>
>
>
> Since this wasn't trivial, I added another Jira:
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>
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> https://bugs.internet2.edu/jira/browse/GRP-175
>
>
>
> Chris



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GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing