Exorcist Delete

[sonic-3]

Hi!

Just a quick question: Does Exorcist have support for exporting deletes
already?

If no: Is this planned for the future?

If yes: It doesn't work for me. I deleted one Style Element on the staging
server, ran Exorcist and still had it on my live server afterwards. Do I have
to make some special configuration for this to work?



Bye,

Andreas
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[Jukka Zitting]

Hi,

On 3/2/06, Sonic <sonic@...> wrote:
> Just a quick question: Does Exorcist have support for exporting deletes
> already?

Yes, with some restrictions. See the warning below.

> If yes: It doesn't work for me. I deleted one Style Element on the staging
> server, ran Exorcist and still had it on my live server afterwards. Do I have
> to make some special configuration for this to work?

Are you are using a XSLT selection to only replicate the
mgd:midgard_style content? The delete information is exported as
separate mgd:delete elements at the end of the XML export, so you'll
be able to replicate the deletions if you add something like
<xsl:apply-templates select="mgd:delete"/> to your stylesheet.

WARNING: The exported deletions contain *only* the deleted GUID, so
there is currently no way to restrict the deletions to just one object
class (like styles or style elements) or object tree (like some
specific style A). The class information would be possible to include,
 but not the tree information because of the way Midgard currently
handles parent links.

BR,

Jukka Zitting

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[sonic-3]

Am Donnerstag, 2. März 2006 10:00 schrieb Jukka Zitting:

> Hi,
>
> On 3/2/06, Sonic <sonic@...> wrote:
> > Just a quick question: Does Exorcist have support for exporting deletes
> > already?
>
> Yes, with some restrictions. See the warning below.
>
> > If yes: It doesn't work for me. I deleted one Style Element on the
> > staging server, ran Exorcist and still had it on my live server
> > afterwards. Do I have to make some special configuration for this to
> > work?
>
> Are you are using a XSLT selection to only replicate the
> mgd:midgard_style content? The delete information is exported as
> separate mgd:delete elements at the end of the XML export, so you'll
> be able to replicate the deletions if you add something like
> <xsl:apply-templates select="mgd:delete"/> to your stylesheet.
>
> WARNING: The exported deletions contain *only* the deleted GUID, so
> there is currently no way to restrict the deletions to just one object
> class (like styles or style elements) or object tree (like some
> specific style A). The class information would be possible to include,
>  but not the tree information because of the way Midgard currently
> handles parent links.

Hi!

Thanks for the fast reply! Yes, I'm not replicating the entire db, just Styles
and Snippets, and I've deleted a lot of User accounts from the staging server
after the last complete synchronisation. Needless to say, these are still
needed on the live server, so being able to restrict deletes to certain
classes would be most helpful!


Bye,

Andreas

>
> BR,
>
> Jukka Zitting
>
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> Yukatan - http://yukatan.fi/ - info@...
> Software craftsmanship, JCR consulting, and Java development

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[Jukka Zitting]

Hi,

On 3/2/06, Sonic <sonic@...> wrote:
> Thanks for the fast reply! Yes, I'm not replicating the entire db, just Styles
> and Snippets, and I've deleted a lot of User accounts from the staging server
> after the last complete synchronisation. Needless to say, these are still
> needed on the live server, so being able to restrict deletes to certain
> classes would be most helpful!

OK, I'll take a look at this. Can you file an issue for this either in
the Midgard issue tracker on tigris or in the Exorcist issue tracker
on sourceforge?

BR,

Jukka Zitting

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