[GeoNetwork-devel] CFV : GeoNetwork data directory

Francois_Prunayre · March 19, 2012, 7:32am

Dear PSC,

The GeoNetwork data directory is the location on the file system where
GeoNetwork stores all of its custom configuration. This configuration
defines such things as: What thesaurus is used by GeoNetwork? What
schema is plugged in GeoNetwork?. The data directory also contains a
number of support files used by GeoNetwork for various purposes (eg.
Lucene index, spatial index, logos).

The main goal of this directory is to make upgrade easier and be able
to make the webapp runs in readonly mode.

Looking forward to your votes.

Regards

Francois

[1] http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/wiki/proposals/GeoNetworkDataDir

ticheler · March 19, 2012, 8:11am

Nice proposal François!

+1 from me.

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On 19 mrt 2012, at 08:32, Francois Prunayre wrote:

Dear PSC,

The GeoNetwork data directory is the location on the file system where
GeoNetwork stores all of its custom configuration. This configuration
defines such things as: What thesaurus is used by GeoNetwork? What
schema is plugged in GeoNetwork?. The data directory also contains a
number of support files used by GeoNetwork for various purposes (eg.
Lucene index, spatial index, logos).

The main goal of this directory is to make upgrade easier and be able
to make the webapp runs in readonly mode.

Looking forward to your votes.

Regards

Francois

[1] http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/wiki/proposals/GeoNetworkDataDir

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sppigot · March 19, 2012, 10:46am

Hi Francois,

+1

One thing I did think of is that some of the items in the data dir are actually assumed to be accessible from the web app - an example are the schema locations generated for metadata records that don't have a schema location. But just bundling all these things together inside or outside of the web app is a good simplification. I'll see if I can document which items might need to be accessible from the web app.

Cheers,
Simon
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Subject: [GeoNetwork-devel] CFV : GeoNetwork data directory

Dear PSC,

The GeoNetwork data directory is the location on the file system where
GeoNetwork stores all of its custom configuration. This configuration
defines such things as: What thesaurus is used by GeoNetwork? What
schema is plugged in GeoNetwork?. The data directory also contains a
number of support files used by GeoNetwork for various purposes (eg.
Lucene index, spatial index, logos).

The main goal of this directory is to make upgrade easier and be able
to make the webapp runs in readonly mode.

Looking forward to your votes.

Regards

Francois

[1] proposals/GeoNetworkDataDir – GeoNetwork opensource Developer website

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Monteduro_Patrizia_C · March 19, 2012, 10:58am

+1 from my side.

Thank you François!

Best regards,
Patrizia

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Subject: [GeoNetwork-devel] CFV : GeoNetwork data directory

Dear PSC,

The GeoNetwork data directory is the location on the file system where GeoNetwork stores all of its custom configuration. This configuration defines such things as: What thesaurus is used by GeoNetwork? What schema is plugged in GeoNetwork?. The data directory also contains a number of support files used by GeoNetwork for various purposes (eg. Lucene index, spatial index, logos).

The main goal of this directory is to make upgrade easier and be able to make the webapp runs in readonly mode.

Looking forward to your votes.

Regards

Francois

[1] http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/wiki/proposals/GeoNetworkDataDir

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Emanuele_Tajariol · March 20, 2012, 10:00am

Hi François,

nice proposal.

This issue has already been addressed in GeoServer, and GeoNetwork may as well
offer the same solutions, by setting the data dir either in:
- java property
- environment variable
- context parameter in web.xml
(ideas taken from http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/datadirectory/data-
dir-setting.html )
Note anyway that Un*x doesn't like dots in env vars very much, so using
underscores would be preferred.

Ciao,
Emanuele

Alle 08:32:20 di Monday 19 March 2012, Francois Prunayre ha scritto:

Dear PSC,

The GeoNetwork data directory is the location on the file system where
GeoNetwork stores all of its custom configuration. This configuration
defines such things as: What thesaurus is used by GeoNetwork? What
schema is plugged in GeoNetwork?. The data directory also contains a
number of support files used by GeoNetwork for various purposes (eg.
Lucene index, spatial index, logos).

The main goal of this directory is to make upgrade easier and be able
to make the webapp runs in readonly mode.

Looking forward to your votes.

Regards

Francois

[1] http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/wiki/proposals/GeoNetworkDataDir

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Francois_Prunayre · March 21, 2012, 11:19am

Thanks for your comments Emanuele,

Le 20 mars 2012 11:00, Emanuele Tajariol
<e_tajariol@anonymised.com> a écrit :

Hi François,

nice proposal.

This issue has already been addressed in GeoServer, and GeoNetwork may as well
offer the same solutions, by setting the data dir either in:
- java property
- environment variable
- context parameter in web.xml

Yep, I made the change, the order will be:
* java property
* servlet context
* system property

(ideas taken from http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/datadirectory/data-
dir-setting.html )
Note anyway that Un*x doesn't like dots in env vars very much, so using
underscores would be preferred.

I don't have resource to change that everywhere (as dots was already
used in different places) so I made a change to check env property
with "_" instead of "." in property name (eg. system property
geonetwork_dir=/app/geonetwork_data_dir is equal to java property
-Dgeonetwork.dir=/app/geonetwork_data_dir). I'll open a ticket to
change that which could be done later.

Proposal page has been updated.

Ciao.

Francois

Ciao,
Emanuele

Alle 08:32:20 di Monday 19 March 2012, Francois Prunayre ha scritto:

Dear PSC,

The GeoNetwork data directory is the location on the file system where
GeoNetwork stores all of its custom configuration. This configuration
defines such things as: What thesaurus is used by GeoNetwork? What
schema is plugged in GeoNetwork?. The data directory also contains a
number of support files used by GeoNetwork for various purposes (eg.
Lucene index, spatial index, logos).

The main goal of this directory is to make upgrade easier and be able
to make the webapp runs in readonly mode.

Looking forward to your votes.

Regards

Francois

[1] http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/wiki/proposals/GeoNetworkDataDir

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