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How to access filelist during datadeploy running within opendeploy task?

motlnt

Hi,
My env:TS 6.7.2
OD 6.2

The scenario I am running is that inside the OOTB workflow(configurable author submit) I am invoking Opendeploy which in turn invokes datadeploy via DNR.

Is there anyway I can access the list of files being submitted in the workflow?
there has to be someway to do this since the workflow internally knows which files are being submitted since in the job/task properties in the workflow tab it does show submitted files as 'Attached files'.

any hint/comment?

thx in advance.

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vpatel

One of the many ways to do this would be via OD manifest. Another way to do this would be to create a filelist and pass a reference to it as a parameter to your DnR. Quite a few other ways to do it I am sure. Totally depends on you :-)!

HTH!

motlnt

One of the many ways to do this would be via OD manifest. Another way to do this would be to create a filelist and pass a reference to it as a parameter to your DnR. Quite a few other ways to do it I am sure. Totally depends on you :-)!

HTH!

thanks for the pointer...is there any way to filter the manifest file list and parse only a certain type of files in DD?
The reason being OD job deploys all sorts of contents like images etc but DD job is suppose to parse only the DCRs for dcr-to-db deployement.

vpatel

I am assuming you are probably going to fire off another DD deployment? In there you can put filters (exclusions/inclusions)?

motlnt

I am assuming you are probably going to fire off another DD deployment? In there you can put filters (exclusions/inclusions)?

Allow me to ask the question again.
In this case I am running OD and within it running the DD as DNR.
so the OD job is creating the manifest file here with all the related files.
but I do not want to parse all this contents in DD except the DCRs.
I know I can put filters in the OD config file but I want to filter the manifest file at runtime.

Adam Stoller

Allow me to ask the question again.
In this case I am running OD and within it running the DD as DNR.
so the OD job is creating the manifest file here with all the related files.
but I do not want to parse all this contents in DD except the DCRs.
I know I can put filters in the OD config file but I want to filter the manifest file at runtime.

Is your OD deployment a comparison based, TeamSite based, or file list based deployment?

If you're doing a file list based deployment, you can create the file lists you want ahead of time and pass them in / through OpenDeploy to the DataDeploy run as parameters.

If you're doing a comparison based or TeamSite based deployment then you might need to process the in-memory deployment information to get a list of the files that were deployed and apply whatever logic you want to filter the contents before handing it off to DD - though you could just put filters into the DD configuration too.

The tricky part is if you have a comparison deployment in which files that are to be processed by DD (in the DNR) are filtered from being processed by OD - and thus do not show up in the final manifest of deployed files. In such cases you're best off finding a means of performing a file list based deployment so that you actually have control of the situation.

motlnt

Is your OD deployment a comparison based, TeamSite based, or file list based deployment?

If you're doing a file list based deployment, you can create the file lists you want ahead of time and pass them in / through OpenDeploy to the DataDeploy run as parameters.

If you're doing a comparison based or TeamSite based deployment then you might need to process the in-memory deployment information to get a list of the files that were deployed and apply whatever logic you want to filter the contents before handing it off to DD - though you could just put filters into the DD configuration too.

The tricky part is if you have a comparison deployment in which files that are to be processed by DD (in the DNR) are filtered from being processed by OD - and thus do not show up in the final manifest of deployed files. In such cases you're best off finding a means of performing a file list based deployment so that you actually have control of the situation.

It is comparison based.
In my case I am filtering all DCRs in OD but want to deploy only DCRs in DD so it is tricky indeed.

Adam Stoller

It is comparison based.
In my case I am filtering all DCRs in OD but want to deploy only DCRs in DD so it is tricky indeed.

I don't think you can do it that way - the in-memory log / manifest information will only contain information about files that were deployed, not those that were filtered - so you cannot use that information (as-is) to do what you want.

If you believe that any DCR that would be involved is associated with a generated page that would be deployed by OD - then you might be able to conjure up a DNR script (running on the source side) that went through the list of files deployed by OD (read from STDIN), and then uses the EAs on those files to see if they are generated pages, and if so, tracks down the associated DCR and puts the DCR into a temporary file list - after doing this with the complete list of files deployed by OD - take the temporary file list and pass it to the DD process.

Not pretty, but potentially workable.

Otherwise you need to get your comparison some other way in order to generate two file lists and run the deployment as a filelist based one.