[rules-users] Migrating from one environment to another

[David Faulkner]

Chris,

Using WebDAV is probably the best way of doing this. When you copy a rule into the appropriate location from one WebDAV directory to another, Guvnor will pick up that rule and install it in the specified location in the repository.

One thing that's very important to note is that only a subset of the information available in Guvnor is available through WebDAV (or the REST API)! At this point, my understanding is that it's practically impossible to get some of the rule metadata out of Guvnor; the work on the AtomPub interface may address a lot of these concerns. But if your plan is to do something like migrate documentation or test cases and not just rules, make sure you test the feasibility first!

My understanding from reading previous posts and discussions related to this is that the details of this type of Guvnor-Guvnor migration are hard. Do you import the whole history? What if the users from one instance aren't in the other? What do you do if categories and statuses aren't available? I agree that despite these issues that this is still an obviously useful feature.

David Faulkner
david.faulkner at amentra.com<mailto:david.faulkner at amentra.com>
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From: rules-users-bounces at lists.jboss.org [rules-users-bounces at lists.jboss.org] On Behalf Of Steve Ronderos [steve.ronderos at ni.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 6:26 PM
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Subject: Re: [rules-users] Migrating from one environment to another

Hi Chris,

You may be able to accomplish migrating a single package via the WebDAV interface and a script in your favorite language.

Here are some relevant results from a quick google search:
http://downloads.jboss.com/drools/docs/5.1.1.34858.FINAL/drools-guvnor/html/ch01.html#d0e1301
http://blog.athico.com/2008/05/accessing-guvnor-as-filesystem-webdav.html
http://thoughts.inphina.com/2011/02/14/adding-rules-to-drools-guvnor-programmatically-with-webdav/

Hope this is helpful,
Steve

rules-users-bounces at lists.jboss.org wrote on 02/16/2011 05:12:45 PM:

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> Chris Selwyn <chris at selwyn-family.me.uk>
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> 02/16/2011 05:14 PM
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> Thanks for the confirmation Michael.
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> I must say that I am surprised. It seems such an obviously useful thing.
> Is there a reason why it does not exit? Is there a problem in
> building such a thing?
>
> Chris
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> On 16/02/2011 22:33, Michael Anstis wrote:
> @Chris,
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> I don't believe there is such a mechanism.
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> @Sathya,
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> Hijacking a previous post is unlikely to get you a reply.
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> Thanks,
>
> Mike

> On 16 February 2011 22:04, Chris Selwyn <chris at selwyn-family.me.uk> wrote:
> I am aware of the Guvnor export/import mechanism to move an entire
> repository and the method of importing a DRL to create a package.
>
> But what I have been looking for is a mechanism to move the entire
> contents of a Guvnor package (DSL, model, DSLR file, DRL files etc) from
> one Guvnor instance to another, so far without luck.
>
> Is there such a mechanism?
>
> Chris Selwyn
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