Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Tom Zeller <>]

Although not an exhaustive test, I was not able to reproduce this
issue when I imported into a new 1.6 instance a 1.3 xml export which
was created using -name <stem immediately under root>. Group members
of groups were restored correctly, at least for those I checked.

If the import was to a blank 1.6 database, it would be interesting to
compare the id in the grouper database to the id in the exported xml
of a group which is a member of another group whose memberships were
not imported correctly.

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Peter DiCamillo
<>
 wrote:
> I'm in the process of doing an upgrade from Grouper 1.3 to Grouper 1.6.1
> using the first method.  I dumped some groups in 1.3.1 and restored them in
> 1.6.1 using -xmlimportold.  I dumped a stem immediately under the root using
> -name, and no other options.  I didn't use any options on the import
> command.
>
> I found that group members of groups were not being restored.  I checked the
> dump and it looks fine, with correct entries for group members of groups.
>  The groups to be added as members already existed, but the log showed them
> not being found.  The problem seems to be in the restore program,
> XmlImporter.java, and this change fixed it for me:
>
>  426c426,431
>  <     return this._getSubjectById(id, type);
>  ---
>  >     if (type.equals("group")) {
>  >       return this._getSubjectByIdentifier(idfr, type);
>  >     }
>  >     else {
>  >       return this._getSubjectById(id, type);
>  >     }
>
> I wouldn't expect the restored group to have the same id as the original
> group (unlike people, who do have the same id), so I'm wondering how this
> was intended to work.
>
> Peter
>
> Chris Hyzer wrote:
>>
>> There are two upgrade methods:
>>
>> 1. Export XML, then import into the version you would like (in 1.6, the
>> xml format changed, but you can still import the old with
>> ./gsh.sh -xmlimportold GrouperSystem export.xml
>>
>> However, Im not sure all the lastUpdated dates and minor stuff like that
>> is maintained.   Also not sure about group descriptions (this was fixed in
>> some version, not sure which).
>>
>> 2. Do all the individual upgrade steps.
>>
>> I went from 1.4 to 1.6 and did the individual steps.  It was time
>> consuming though.  If you want to give #1 a try, go for it, and check the
>> data afterwards...
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: 
>> 
>> [mailto:]
>>  On Behalf Of Scott Koranda
>> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 3:55 PM
>> To: 
>> 
>> Subject: [grouper-users] upgrading from 1.4.2 to 1.6.1
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible to upgrade from Grouper 1.4.2 to 1.6.1 without
>> stopping at 1.5.x?
>>
>> What would be the best strategy?
>>
>> (We are using MySQL as the backend)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Scott
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