>
> Just to make sure, we are talking about the same thing: the problem does
> not
> appear during import, but when generating of all possible combinations
> (when
> saving the CategoryCombination or when manually evoking the update of
> categoryOptionCombinations)
>
Ah, sorry.. I was thinking it was the import that was slow.. so that part
is ok?
> so I can still use /api/metadata without version to call the current
> api-version?
>
That will give you the legacy importer, so going forward you would need to
use /api/{version}/{endpoint}, we will have more
info about it in the release notes.
And no, the UI is not switched to new importer yet (in 2.24), not 100% it
will...
>
> Thanks for your replies at this time of the day :-)
>
> Regards, Uwe
>
> ---
>
>
> > Morten Olav Hansen <mor...@dhis2.org> hat am 7. Juni 2016 um 19:28
> > geschrieben:
> >
> >
> > Hi Uwe
> >
> > The improvements are mainly for speed and validation. Yes, we are now (in
> > 2.24) introducing versioned web-api, so that endpoint importer will be
> > available until 2.26 (we will support 3 versions). In 2.24, the same
> > endpoint is available at /api/24/metadata.
> >
> > If you are using cURL, or another utility.. the import part would be the
> > same, but the UI in 2.23 can not be used, as it's hardcoded to legacy
> > importer.
> >
> > --
> > Morten Olav Hansen
> > Senior Engineer, DHIS 2
> > University of Oslo
> > http://www.dhis2.org
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 11:25 PM, Uwe Wahser <u...@wahser.de> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Morten,
> > >
> > > no, i didn't. What would be the procedure for that? Importing
> Categories,
> > > Options and CategoryCombinations via api and having DHIS2 generate the
> > > CategoryOptionCombinations? Would that bring about any change at all or
> > > does the
> > > importer use different libs for generating the COCs?
> > >
> > > btw. is the 23 in the api link valid for future dhis2 versions? I
> noticed
> > > it in
> > > a few api descriptions recently ...
> > >
> > > Regards, Uwe
> > >
> > > > Morten Olav Hansen <mor...@dhis2.org> hat am 7. Juni 2016 um 18:50
> > > > geschrieben:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi Uwe
> > > >
> > > > Did you try out new importer? Available as /api/23/metadata in 2.23
> > > >
> > > > On Tuesday, 7 June 2016, Uwe Wahser <u...@wahser.de> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Dear devs,
> > > > >
> > > > > I am experiencing problems when handling category combinations. Our
> > > > > protoype
> > > > > with 5 dimensions went through the process of generating
> > > > > categoryOptionCombinations (~20.000 records) quite well. 7
> dimensions
> > > > > (~400.000)
> > > > > worked as well, although it took a very long time.
> > > > >
> > > > > Now we defined the next datamodel with 10 dimensions (expecting
> ~5Mio
> > > > > categoryOptionCombinations) and the process dies without further
> > > notice.
> > > > > Last
> > > > > words in catalina.out:
> > > > > * INFO 2016-06-07 13:29:33,783 Building object-bridge maps
> > > (preheatCache:
> > > > > true,
> > > > > 3 classes). (DefaultObjectBridge.java [http-bio-8180-exec-15])
> > > > > * INFO 2016-06-07 13:29:36,779 Building object-bridge maps took
> 2.99
> > > > > seconds.
> > > > > (DefaultObjectBridge.java [http-bio-8180-exec-15])
> > > > > * INFO 2016-06-07 13:29:36,896 'admin' update
> > > > > org.hisp.dhis.dataelement.DataElementCategoryCombo, name:
> Membership,
> > > uid:
> > > > > SCgLXYHqVzz (AuditLogUtil.java [http-bio-8180-exec-15])
> > > > >
> > > > > Ten dimensions with not extraordinarily big option sets is
> actually not
> > > > > unusual
> > > > > and rather slim for multi-dimensional data-models in data
> warehouses,
> > > so
> > > > > I'd
> > > > > expect DHIS2 to be able to handle this easily.
> > > > >
> > > > > Could of course be a memory problem (tried up to 14g for tomcat on
> a
> > > 4-core
> > > > > Ubuntu 14.04 server, DHIS 2.23) Before I'll start experimenting
> with
> > > other
> > > > > parameters, I am hoping to get some hints on known limitations or
> > > > > workarounds
> > > > > from you (not allowed: reducing the number of options or
> categories,
> > > > > sql-hacks
> > > > > :-) ). Is there any info on whether optimizations on this process
> are
> > > being
> > > > > planned in the kernel?
> > > > >
> > > > > Some observations on the process:
> > > > >
> > > > > * during generation (either when saving the categoryCombination or
> in
> > > the
> > > > > data
> > > > > maintenance menu):
> > > > > - long names - cOCs are generated with generated names that are
> getting
> > > > > extremely long as they are mere concats of the involved
> > > categoryOptions.
> > > > > Could
> > > > > there be an option to just use the codes as basis or to leave away
> the
> > > > > names
> > > > > completely? Could be one reason for a memory problem and
> performance
> > > > > issues.
> > > > > - long log entries - every single entry is logged in catalina.out
> with
> > > > > several
> > > > > lines of text, causing catalina to become extremely big.
> > > > > - during execution lots of Java-memory are being used and no
> DB-memory,
> > > > > which
> > > > > looks to me as if all the logic is happening in the java machine.
> It
> > > might
> > > > > be
> > > > > more usefull to transfer more logic into SQLs to the DB (e.g. use
> DB
> > > > > cross-joins
> > > > > for combining options) as the DB will be more efficient.
> > > > > - because of the log entries I assume that every single
> combination is
> > > > > being
> > > > > persisted into the DB with a single SQL statement, causing
> millions of
> > > > > single
> > > > > SQL requests. Prefer batch SQL instead of single record processing.
> > > > >
> > > > > * during import/export of categoryOptionCombinations:
> > > > > - prefer batch SQL instead of single record processing
> > > > > - huge log entries in catalina.out due to several lines of text per
> > > > > combination
> > > > >
> > > > > I'd be very happy about comments.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks in advance,
> > > > >
> > > > > Uwe
> > > > >
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> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > --
> > > > Morten Olav Hansen
> > > > Senior Engineer, DHIS 2
> > > > University of Oslo
> > > > http://www.dhis2.org
> > >
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