[wildfly-dev] AddStepHandler can't add content to overlay

[Brian Stansberry]

There's no way now to make sure it runs after.

But the fact it assumes that overlay is present in the first place 
sounds fishy. How do you know it exists?

On 10/13/14, 1:30 PM, Stan Silvert wrote:
> I have an AddStepHandler that adds a keycloak server to the management
> model using the "Mixed Approach"[1].  It also needs to add overlay
> content if any new content is available.  The overlay itself already
> exists in standalone.xml.
>      <deployment-overlays>
>          <deployment-overlay name="main-auth-server.war-keycloak-overlay">
>              <deployment name="main-auth-server.war"/>
>          </deployment-overlay>
>      </deployment-overlays>
>
> I insert this operation in my AddStepHandler:
> {
>      "operation" => "add",
>      "address" => [
>          ("deployment-overlay" => "main-auth-server.war-keycloak-overlay"),
>          ("content" => "/WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/keycloak-server.json")
>      ],
>      "content" => {"url" => "file:/mydir/keycloak-server.json"},
>      "rollback-on-runtime-failure" => false
> }
>
> But at this point in server startup, the overlay's add handler hasn't
> bee called.  So I get
> 14:09:20,729 ERROR [org.jboss.as.controller.management-operation]
> (ServerService Thread Pool -- 26) JBAS014613: Operation ("add") failed -
> address: ([
>      ("deployment-overlay" => "main-auth-server.war-keycloak-overlay"),
>      ("content" => "/WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/keycloak-server.json")
> ]) - failure description: "JBAS014766: Resource [(\"deployment-overlay\"
> => \"main-auth-server.war-keycloak-overlay\")] does not exist; a
> resource at address [
>      (\"deployment-overlay\" => \"main-auth-server.war-keycloak-overlay\"),
>      (\"content\" => \"/WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/keycloak-server.json\")
> ] cannot be created until all ancestor resources have been added"
>
> At startup, how can I make sure that my "add overlay content" operation
> is executed after "add overlay" is done?
>
> [1] https://developer.jboss.org/wiki/ExtendingAS7


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Brian Stansberry
Senior Principal Software Engineer
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