[Yanel-dev] What is the element "root-dir" good for?

[Josias Thöny]

Michael Wechner wrote:
> Josias Thöny wrote:
> 
>> Michael Wechner wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I have noticed a new element within the yanel realm config
>>>
>>> <root-dir>../..</root-dir>
>>> </realm-config>
>>>
>>> What is this element good for?
>>
>>
>> It's needed to copy a realm.
>> Basically yanel only knows the location of the config files of a 
>> realm, but it doesn't know where the actual data resides. This is a 
>> problem when a realm should be copied. So I added the root-dir element 
>> which denotes the directory which contains the complete realm. This 
>> directory will be copied when a realm is copied.
> 
> 
> ok, I see, but unfortunately resp. fortunately it doesn't have to be 
> this way ;-) because depending on how the repositories are being 
> configured resp. depending on the implementations these can be scattered 
> all over the place.

That's why I wrote the following in the javadoc:
"A realm can only be copied if it has a <root-dir> element in its config 
file and if this directory contains the complete realm."

> 
> I think we should rather introduce a cooy method for repositories within 
> Yarep.
> 
> WDYT?

I guess that the current solution covers about 90% of all real usecases, 
so I'm not sure if it's a high priority issue to improve that now.
But we could keep it in mind for the future. Or do you think it's 
important to improve that now?

Josias

> 
>> By the way, this is documented in the javadoc of 
>> RealmConfiguration.java. If you think it should be documented 
>> somewhere else, please let me know.
> 
> 
> I will make a note within the config itself and also a warning that this 
> will only work for realms containing all repositories under one "root" 
> repository.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Michi
> 
>>
>> Josias
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Michi
>>>
>>
>>
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