perfsonar development work

["Michael Bischoff" <>]

Hello all,

Perhaps I'm overlooking things (wouldn't be a first) but where is the 
webadmin wiki page?
I've seen most documentation flying over the mailing list, if someone could 
harvest it and
stick it on a page? This would probably save us effort later on.

Kind regards,

Michael Bischoff

> Michalis, thanks for your effort and dedication to get this out at the
> earliest. The only ones who should apologize for this delay are us (me 
> especially) who wanted
> to make the whole web admin stuff look well presented. We hope the results 
> of our efforts
> will be satisfactory.
>
> Thanks again!
> Loukik.
>
>
>
> Michael Michalis wrote:
>
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>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> First of all I'm really sorry about the delay in releasing the new web
>> admin version. We had a lot of look and feel issues to resolve,which are 
>> not all of them
>> solved, and it took some time to do that. There are no major changes in 
>> this version,
>> mostly look and feel issues which do not concern developers. However there 
>> is a small issue
>> that needs to be handled, regarding a bug in the configuration process 
>> when eXist is already
>> configured. In this case the wizard servlet will fail to work properly as 
>> it gets the eXist
>> admin password from the service.properties file, which in this case will 
>> be empty. In order
>> to solve this possible inconsistency we now require the user ti provide 
>> the admin password
>> in the wizard. The is done by just adding another "mock" property element 
>> in
>> wizard.properties with off course the right numbering, as shown below:
>>
>> ~ <property>
>> ~    <entry key="old_adminpassword" required="true"
>> password="true">perfsonar</entry> ~    <Comment>Enter the old eXist 
>> administration
>> password:</Comment>
>> ~    <ProposedValue>perfsonar</ProposedValue>
>> ~    <Group order="5">eXist</Group>
>> ~  </property>
>>
>>
>> We will also need to change a little bit the code of the
>> ConfigurationHandler implementation,  so that it reflects this change:
>>
>>
>> Now it will be :
>>
>>
>> String adminPass = null;
>> ~        String existURI = "";
>> ~        String newAdminPass = null;
>> ~        String username = null;
>> ~        String password = null;
>> ~        String confFile = null;
>> ~        // Need to get the new xmlDBURI and old and new admin
>> password so that ~        // we can make the changes
>> ~        while (it.hasNext()) {
>> ~            String key = (String) it.next();
>> ~            if (key.endsWith("xmldb.db_adminpassword")) {
>>
>>
>> ~           **************************************************
>> ~           *              CODE CHANGE
>> HERE                                            *
>> ~           *    //This is no discarderd, no use for it
>> now.                               * ~           *  // adminPass =
>> serviceProperties.getProperty(key).getValue()  * ~           *   //
>> .trim();`
>> *
>> ~           **************************************************
>>
>>
>> ~              newAdminPass = finalProperties.getProperty(key).trim();
>> ~            }
>> ~            if (key.endsWith("xmldb.db_uri")) {
>> ~                existURI = finalProperties.getProperty(key);
>> ~            }
>>
>>
>> ~        }
>>
>>
>> ~        it = finalProperties.orderedKeys();
>> ~        // Iterating though tthe users input
>> ~        while (it.hasNext()) {
>> ~            String key = (String) it.next();
>> ~            // The input from the user is also set in service
>> properties with a ~            // slight modification for tyhe xmldb uri. 
>> We need to add
>> the ~            // collection at the end of the URI
>> ~            PerfsonarProperty property = new PerfsonarProperty();
>> ~            if (!key.endsWith("xmldb.db_uri")) {
>>
>>
>> ~      **************************************************
>> ~      *                        CODE CHANGE
>> HERE                                 *
>> ~      *            //Now we need to get the old password from the
>> user   * ~      *        if (key.equals("old_adminpassword"))
>> {                            *
>> ~      *             adminPass =
>> finalProperties.getProperty(key).trim();    * ~      *
>> }
>> *  ~      **************************************************
>>
>>
>> ~                else {
>> ~                    property = serviceProperties.getProperty(key);
>> ~                    // If property key does not exist throw an
>> exceptrion ~                    if (property == null) {
>> ~                        throw new Exception("Key is invalid " + key +
>> " ");
>> ~                    } else {
>> ~
>> property.setValue(finalProperties.getProperty(key)); ~
>> serviceProperties.setProperty(key, property); ~                    }
>> ~                }
>> ~            } else {
>>
>>
>> ~                property = serviceProperties.getProperty(key);
>> ~                property.setValue(existURI + "/db/" + dbCollection);
>> ~                serviceProperties.setProperty(key, property);
>>
>>
>> ~            }
>> ~            // Setting also the wizard properties
>> ~            properties.setWizardProperty(key, finalProperties
>> ~                    .getWizardProperty(key));
>>
>>
>> ~            // Also getting all needed information in orer to
>> configure the ~            // exist db
>> ~            if (key.endsWith("xmldb.db_username")) {
>> ~                username = finalProperties.getProperty(key).trim();
>> ~            }
>> ~            if (key.endsWith("xmldb.db_password")) {
>> ~                password = finalProperties.getProperty(key).trim();
>> ~            }
>> ~            if (key.endsWith("conf_file")) {
>> ~                confFile = finalProperties.getProperty(key).trim();
>> ~            }
>>
>>
>> ~        }
>>
>>
>>
>> Also there is a change in the procedure now. You will need to get the
>> rest of the stuff besides the jars from
>> http://anonsvn.internet2.edu/svn/perfsonar/tags/WEB-ADMIN-HTML-CSS-0.8b/
>> . You can get the perfsonar-web-admin jar from
>> http://anonsvn.internet2.edu/svn/perfsonar/trunk/jar-repository/perfsonar/perfsonar-web-adm
>> in/0.8b/perfsonar-web-admin-0.8b.jar . Also make sure to read the updated 
>> product build
>> guide containing updated info
>> http://anonsvn.internet2.edu/svn/perfsonar/trunk/perfsonar-doc/release-management/perfSONA
>> R-MDM-product-build-guide.doc.
>> Again I'm very sorru for this delay. Please contact me for any problem
>> you might face.
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Michalis Michael
>>
>>
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