Re: [mh] collections.json being changed on $Pgm_Root?

H Plato <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.misc.misterhouse.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
There was a case a while back where the collections wasn’t updated for someone, and it was because I didn’t update all the locations. If the stock isn’t updated, then it won’t work with the new versions of ia7 if anyone wanted to start fresh

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> On Dec 11, 2018, at 8:55 PM, Eloy Paris <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Howard,
> 
> If someone has configured data_dir or ia7_data_dir and collections.json
> exists in one of those locations then why bother updating the stock file
> -- it will never be used, updated or not, as we will first find the
> collections.json in data_dir or ia7_data_dir and use that.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Eloy Paris.-
> 
>> On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 05:16:38PM -0700, H Plato wrote:
>> 
>> Reading & writing have this order of preference
>> 
>>        my $prefs_file = "$Pgm_Root/data/web/ia7_config.json";
>>        $prefs_file = "$config_parms{data_dir}/web/ia7_config.json"
>>          if -e "$config_parms{data_dir}/web/ia7_config.json";
>>        $prefs_file = "$config_parms{ia7_data_dir}/ia7_config.json"
>>          if -e "$config_parms{ia7_data_dir}/ia7_config.json”;
>> 
>> 1st priority is if someone actually set a specific config.ini ia7_data_dir, then if there is a custom data_dir, lastly use the stock file. 
>> 
>> The upgrader adds specific functionality to all the file locations. Some versions of IA7 need certain collection.json items, so I thought it would be safest to ensure that any files in those locations are up to date.
>> 
>> Am I missing something?
>> 
>>> On Dec 11, 2018, at 2:36 PM, Eloy Paris <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Howard,
>>> 
>>> Question on collections.json...
>>> 
>>> I set data_dir in my .ini file to avoid writing to $Pgm_Root/data. That
>>> way git never finds a modified file in $Pgm_Root/data and I keep the
>>> source code tree separate from the data (I'm guessing this is how
>>> everybody does it).
>>> 
>>> I just found out that ia7_update_collection() in lib/ia7_utilities.pl
>>> will update all collections.json files in all locations
>>> ($Pgm_Root/data/web/, $config_parms{data_dir}/web/, and
>>> $config_parms{ia7_data_dir}/).
>>> 
>>> However, when reading the file, we seem to use the order
>>> $config_parms{data_dir}/web/, $config_parms{ia7_data_dir}/, and
>>> $Pgm_Root/data/web/, and stop with the first one we find.
>>> 
>>> (And similar for writing in json_write_file() -- we write to the first
>>> we find and then stop.)
>>> 
>>> Is there any reason for updating the same file in all locations,
>>> especially the one at $Pgm_Root/data/web/ (which will throw git off);
>>> should we just no update the first one we find?
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Eloy Paris.-
>>> 


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