[keycloak-dev] 1.2.beta1 planning, need you to defer things

[Stian Thorgersen]

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> From: "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
> To: "Stian Thorgersen" <stian at redhat.com>
> Cc: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Thursday, 12 March, 2015 3:57:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] 1.2.beta1 planning, need you to defer things
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> On 3/12/2015 10:41 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> >>
> >>> Before we can do a release we need to make sure that database migration
> >>> works (I know they don't atm as social providers and social links are
> >>> lost). We also need to add transformation of JSON exports and
> >>> representations so older versions can be imported into 1.2.0.Beta1.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Not sure, but json imports from older versions should be backwards
> >> compatible.  We're just doing migrations via json export/import right?
> >
> > No, we migrate the database directly.
> > https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/blob/master/misc/UpdatingDatabaseSchema.md
> >
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> This direct database migration is just schema changes correct?  I
> already updated the 1.2.x liquibase migrater to put in my db schema
> changes for protocol mappers.

No it should migrate data as well. We can write custom migration tasks for Liquibase and Mongo that takes care of translating the data. It's just going to be much simpler and quicker for users to upgrade that way than having to export/import to json. Especially if they have a large db.

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