well for category things - it could be that if a category doesn't exist in the target "space" then it is created, if not, it is used. There are other things though, which are interlinked - but the same issue you bring up applies (which is why this wasn't done a while back). 

So a simple JCR partial export won't really do - needs to be a bit more programmatic than that. 

The question is - in the target space - do we want to create the missing things, or remove the links from them as part of the export etc... 

So if RuleA depends on categoryX and categoryY, but only categoryX (same name) exists in the target place, then do we create categoryY there, or strip it? 

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Jervis Liu <jliu@redhat.com> wrote:
Hi,

I am currently evaluating a Guvnor feature request which is to implement
package based import/export. The idea is to use this feature to move a
rule package from the DEV repo to QA to Stage to the Prod repo. For
details please check https://jira.jboss.org/browse/GUVNOR-311. My
initial investigation shows that it is not possible to do a single
package import/export technically. A single package in Guvnor repository
is never a self-contained unit. For example, every asset under the
package has a mandatory attribute which is a reference link to category
information. In short, package can not be exported/imported as long as
it contains references to entities outside package.

There are two things I would like to ask for your opinions. Firstly, can
you think of any way to implement this import/export feature? Personally
I dont see how this can be done. This is similar to relational database,
generally it is impossible to export and import data from/to a single
non-isolated table in database. Or sometimes it is possible but with
extensive care normally involved in manual work to deal with dirty data.
In our case, one example of dirty data is category, but what can we do
with category information, we discard package information when we do
package export?

Secondly, if such feature can not be implemented, can we figure out a
different way to help users to better manage the life cycle in Guvnor?
The current version of Guvnor is not very strong on this part yet. If
you are a Guvnor user or you have experience of using similar products,
how did you manage and how do you want to manage the lifecycle of assets
in your repository?


Thanks,

Jervis


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