importing seed/demo data for my component only

[Chris Snow-3]

During developing my component, I am frequently creating new demo data
as my component grows and pasting the data into the webtools import
screen.

Is there a way to automate loading the demo data for my component?
Running ant run-install is not practical because it installs the demo
data for all the components (and takes ages).

I would like to keep my demo data in the default "demo" reader so that
it will still get installed with ant run-install when I finally deploy
my project.

Something like the following ant target would do what I'm looking for:

./ant run-install-readers -Ddata-readers=demo -Dcomponents=mycomponent

Many thanks in advance,

Chris

[Jacques Le Roux]

Hi Chris,

You can use the ext data for that. Look for ext in entityengine.xml. Then you can use run-install-extseed. See the main build.xml
file. Also, from OFBiz main dir, "ant -p" is your friend.

Jacques

From: "Christopher Snow" <[hidden email]>

> During developing my component, I am frequently creating new demo data
> as my component grows and pasting the data into the webtools import
> screen.
>
> Is there a way to automate loading the demo data for my component?
> Running ant run-install is not practical because it installs the demo
> data for all the components (and takes ages).
>
> I would like to keep my demo data in the default "demo" reader so that
> it will still get installed with ant run-install when I finally deploy
> my project.
>
> Something like the following ant target would do what I'm looking for:
>
> ./ant run-install-readers -Ddata-readers=demo -Dcomponents=mycomponent
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Chris
>

[Chris Snow-3]

Hi Jacques,

entityengine.xml explains it all!  The create-component script puts the
component data in the seed and demo reader.  Perhaps it should put the
data under ext and ext-demo?

Many thanks,

Chris

Jacques Le Roux wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> You can use the ext data for that. Look for ext in entityengine.xml.
> Then you can use run-install-extseed. See the main build.xml file.
> Also, from OFBiz main dir, "ant -p" is your friend.
>
> Jacques
>
> From: "Christopher Snow" <[hidden email]>
>> During developing my component, I am frequently creating new demo data
>> as my component grows and pasting the data into the webtools import
>> screen.
>>
>> Is there a way to automate loading the demo data for my component?
>> Running ant run-install is not practical because it installs the demo
>> data for all the components (and takes ages).
>>
>> I would like to keep my demo data in the default "demo" reader so that
>> it will still get installed with ant run-install when I finally deploy
>> my project.
>>
>> Something like the following ant target would do what I'm looking for:
>>
>> ./ant run-install-readers -Ddata-readers=demo -Dcomponents=mycomponent
>>
>> Many thanks in advance,
>>
>> Chris
>>
>
>

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[Chris Snow-3]

Shall I raise this as a JIRA improvement?

There are at least two options:

1) Copy the following into the create-component generated
ofbiz-component.xml

    <!-- defining:
        seed         = OFBiz and External Seed Data - to be maintained
along with source and updated whenever a system deployment is updated
        seed-initial = OFBiz and External Seed Data - to be maintained
along with source like other seed data, but only loaded initially and
not updated when a system is updated except manually reviewing each line
        demo         = OFBiz Only Demo Data
        ext          = External General Data (custom)
        ext-test     = External Test Data (custom)
        ext-demo     = External Demo Data (custom)
    -->

2) Set create-component to use only the ext* readers.

Many thanks,

Chris

Christopher Snow wrote:

> Hi Jacques,
>
> entityengine.xml explains it all!  The create-component script puts the
> component data in the seed and demo reader.  Perhaps it should put the
> data under ext and ext-demo?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Chris
>
> Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>  
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> You can use the ext data for that. Look for ext in entityengine.xml.
>> Then you can use run-install-extseed. See the main build.xml file.
>> Also, from OFBiz main dir, "ant -p" is your friend.
>>
>> Jacques
>>
>> From: "Christopher Snow" <[hidden email]>
>>    
>>> During developing my component, I am frequently creating new demo data
>>> as my component grows and pasting the data into the webtools import
>>> screen.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to automate loading the demo data for my component?
>>> Running ant run-install is not practical because it installs the demo
>>> data for all the components (and takes ages).
>>>
>>> I would like to keep my demo data in the default "demo" reader so that
>>> it will still get installed with ant run-install when I finally deploy
>>> my project.
>>>
>>> Something like the following ant target would do what I'm looking for:
>>>
>>> ./ant run-install-readers -Ddata-readers=demo -Dcomponents=mycomponent
>>>
>>> Many thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>>      
>>    
>
>
>  

--
Chris Snow - CEng MBCS CITP MBA (Tech Mgmt) (Open) CISSP

Tel: [phone]
Mob: [phone]
Www: www.snowconsulting.co.uk