Autoprivate configurations

bagman

There's not much on here with regards to autoprivate, other than to curse it's lack of regex support. So, here's my situation...

Each branch I create has it's own META-INF and WEB-INF folders for virtualization purposes. They need to be set as private. I usually do it through the interface or CLT, but sometimes I forget. I want to use autoprivate as a failsafe...

That is simple enough in autoprivate.cfg:

((META-INF))
((WEB-INF))

However, I have these same folders in an administration branch where they do not need to be set private.

Is there a way to differentiate between a directory in the WA root vs. further down the structure? Or, am I better off forgetting autoprivate (until they make it regex-friendly)?

Thanks,
Mark

Adam Stoller

Is there a way to differentiate between a directory in the WA root vs. further down the structure? Or, am I better off forgetting autoprivate (until they make it regex-friendly)?

Unfortunately, autoprivate only provides "wildcarding" ("x") for filenames, not (as far as I know) for directories - and I don't believe it has any functionality (in either case) for processing path information - just the actual name of the file or directory.
I would not hold my breath for autoprivate processing to get more features - the current code has been in place since at least TS 3.1 (1999) and probably earlier - if I recall correctly, it was implemented by Russell Nakano (who's since moved on to other things in other companies)

The only solution I can think of for it is to create an iwat (or iwatsubmit) trigger script that performs the privatizing for you - however - note that since directories are not actually versioned, once you have it set as private, it will remain private until someone explicitly un-sets it - regardless of files being changed within that directory. So consider how often these particular directories get newly created for the private / non-private scenarios and you may be able to keep what you have and just fix the one or two situations after those directories are first submitted.