Datadeploy - Dynamic Filelists

My requirement is to deploy only the DCR that is attached to the workflow, to the database. We can do this via file list based deployments whereby we can have an external task before the datadeploy task which writes the name of the DCR to a file.
I want the name of this file to be ‘SomeName + CurrentJobId’. But I have a doubt as to how I could specify this in the datadeploy config file.
If the filelist name was the same all the time, I could write the datadeploy config file as in the attachment 'testdd.xml'.

The xmlfilelist.txt content looks like this,
templatedata/WA_Cat/WA_Dat/data/dcr2

What should I give in ‘path filelist=’ if the filelist name is dynamic, like xmlfilelist12345.txt, xmlfilelist23456.txt, xmlfilelist34567.txt etc..

Please guide me regarding the implementation.

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marcussteiner

you can use variables for this:

external task:

my $DDcmd = "$iw_home/opendeploy/OpenDeployNG/bin/iwodcmd start $deployment ".
"-inst $sec ".
"-k myBaseArea=$myBaseArea ".
"-k myarea=$myarea ".
"-k mode=$mode ";

dd config file:

options = "wide,$mode"
area = "$myarea"
base-area = "$myBaseArea"
>

visit-directory = "deep"
/>

in this way you can keep everything dynamic. In this example there is no dynamic filelist but I'm sure you can handle this.

amigo

Thanks for the reply.

I'm totally confused, still I understand that you mean to say there is a possibility of giving somthing like this....

my $DDcmd = "$iw_home/opendeploy/OpenDeployNG/bin/iwodcmd start $deployment ".
"-inst $sec ".
"-k filelist=$Filelistname "

BTW, should I use this -inst for my filelist deployment....I've read in the manual that this value will be added to the deployment name...In that case will the deployment configuration filename remain the same always.....Should I use this in my scenario?....

As per ur suggestion, I need to use a single deployment configuration file ddtest.xml , which has a variable substituted for 'path filelist=' . In the perl file which triggers the deployment, I need to pass the variable along with the command. Am I right?....

Would be really helpful if any of you could elaborate a bit more.

Thanks in advance.

Vishakha

The OD2 Admin manual has a good desription of the iwodcmd command to start deployments. You can use the "-k filelist" to specify the filelist.
Also refer page no 68 for some introduction to the command and page no 201 for detailed description of parameter substitution. Inside the deployment config file you can define your variable and this variable can be passed value from the command line using "-k VARIABLENAME=VALUE".
Hope this helps.

Vishakha

We have just tried this and it has worked successfully.
Attached is our source tag in the deployment config file

Note the variable DEPLOYLIST in filelist. We supplied the parameter to this through the command line as below:

iwodcmd start Project/articles -k iwdd=Articles deployList=C:/temp/xmlfilelist.txt

where :
Project/articles : denotes the Project folder under the OD-HOME/conf having the dpeloyment config file articles.xml
Articles: It is the name of deployment tag in the deployment config file
deployList: Is the variable that will be replaced in the config file.

Hope this is clear and helps you. We have the same requirement as yours to deploy through the workflow and plan to use this.

Adam Stoller

We have just tried this and it has worked successfully.
Attached is our source tag in the deployment config file

Note the variable DEPLOYLIST in filelist. We supplied the parameter to this through the command line as below:

iwodcmd start Project/articles -k iwdd=Articles deployList=C:/temp/xmlfilelist.txt

where :
Project/articles : denotes the Project folder under the OD-HOME/conf having the dpeloyment config file articles.xml
Articles: It is the name of deployment tag in the deployment config file
deployList: Is the variable that will be replaced in the config file.

Hope this is clear and helps you. We have the same requirement as yours to deploy through the workflow and plan to use this.

That should be: iwodcmd start Project/articles -k iwdd=Articles [color=red] -k "deployList=C:/temp/xmlfilelist.txt"

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