manifest processing has a very limited usecase. Why can't it be processed using a PlainTextEntityProcessor and write a Tranformer to read lines using regex?
--Noble On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Fergus McMenemie <fer...@twig.me.uk> wrote: > Hello, > > I have almost finished a new DIH EntityProcessor which > I am calling the manifestEnityProcessor. It is designed > around the idea that whatever demon is used to maintain > your set of a few 100,000 xml documents it is likely to > drop a report or log file explaining what has been changed > within your content store. This assumes a file based > content repository. > > The manifestEnityProcessor is used as follows > > <entity name="jc" > processor="ManifestEntityProcessor" > baseDir="/Volumes/Techmore/ts/aaa/schema/data" > rootEntity="false" > dataSource="null" > > allowRegex="^.*\.xml$" > manifestFileName="/Volumes/ts/man-find.txt" > manifestAddRegex="(.*)$" > > > > The idea is you have a log file or other report, perhaps > from tar or zip, and you wish to use this to control the > indexing of the new content. The new entity fields are as > follows. > > manifestFileName is the name of the manifest file. If > this value is relative, it assumed to > be relative to baseDir. Required. > > manifestAddRegex is a required regex to identify lines > which when matched should cause docs to > be added to the index. > > manifestDelRegex is an optional value of a regex to > identify documents which when matched should > be deleted from the index **PLANNED** > > allowRegex a required regex to identify the portion > of the ADD/DELete line identified above > which contains the file or pathname to > ADDed or DELeted. If the resulting value > relative, it assumed to be relative to > baseDir. > > What do I do next? > Raise a JIRA issue and add the code? > Is DIH the right place to add this? > Suggestions for a different name? > Suggestions on how to do the delete bitty from within an entity? > > Regards Fergus. > > > > -- > > =============================================================== > Fergus McMenemie Email:fer...@twig.me.uk > Techmore Ltd Phone:(UK) 07721 376021 > > Unix/Mac/Intranets Analyst Programmer > =============================================================== > -- --Noble Paul
