On 7/14/21 6:18 PM, Fred Gleason wrote:
On Jul 14, 2021, at 05:14, Alejandro olivan Alvarez
<alejandro.olivan.alva...@gmail.com
<mailto:alejandro.olivan.alva...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I have messed a little with rivendell database, quite successfully,
but only for query/read operations ... altering/writing directly the
database of such a complex application is for the brave :-)
Just to amplify Alejandro’s point: directly modifying the Rivendell
database is NOT A SUPPORTED METHOD for making changes in Rivendell!
Specifically, the database schema CAN and DOES change between
different versions of Rivendell; meaning that the update method that
worked perfectly three months ago could end up NUKING YOUR DATABASE
next time around.
A much better and safer method for making these sorts of site-specific
bulk changes is to write a script that uses Rivendell’s WebAPI. See:
http://opsguide.rivendellaudio.org/apis/web_api.pdf
<http://opsguide.rivendellaudio.org/apis/web_api.pdf>
Man, I missed the API completely during all this time ... thank you for
the remind and the pdf link!
The Web API is a documented, public and above all stable interface;
using it will allow you to write scripts that won’t break across
different versions of Rivendell.
N.B. — If you insist on writing changes directly to the DB, be sure
that you have a known good backup of it first. The sanity and gray
hair (not to mention job) that you save may be your own.
Cheers!
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