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Re: Upgrading DHIS2 from 2.21 to 2.24 and using new exporter/importer

 

Thanks Aamer, I'm looking at a similar bug right now.. seems some objects
don't get their deps properly attached..

-- 
Morten Olav Hansen
Senior Engineer, DHIS 2
University of Oslo
http://www.dhis2.org

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Aamer Mohammed <aamerm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Morten,
>
> Please find the payload for below request
> *curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X GET -u username:password
> "http://localhost:8888/api/24/metadata?filter=created:gt:2016-07
> <http://localhost:8888/api/24/metadata?filter=created:gt:2016-07>" >
> metadata.224.newapi.created.json*
>
> Import the payload in a fresh instance for import using
>
> *curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST --data
> @metadata.224.newapi.created.json -u admin:district
> “http://localhost:8080/api/24/metadata?atomicMode=NONE
> <http://localhost:8080/api/24/metadata?atomicMode=NONE>” >
> output_created_besteffort.txt*
>
> If the same payload is run with atomicMode=ALL, I am getting 'Invalid
> references' errors which is acceptable. But if it is run with
> atomicMode=NONE, it is throwing the error for which the complete stack
> trace is attached earlier. filename: '
> *output_created_besteffort_trace.txt'*
>
> Let me know if the complete payload or any other details are required from
> my end.
>
>
> Thanks
> Aamer.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 8:52 AM, Morten Olav Hansen <morten@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Aamer
>>
>> Could you please share the payload of the object where this happen?
>>
>> --
>> Morten Olav Hansen
>> Senior Engineer, DHIS 2
>> University of Oslo
>> http://www.dhis2.org
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 9:13 PM, Aamer Mohammed <aamerm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Morten,
>>>
>>> The Importer was run with atomicMode=ALL. Though the payload is huge,
>>> only few errors were shown in ImportSummary. As per errors in previous
>>> ImportSummary, I have done below.
>>> 1) ensured the 'short name' field is unique for each of the 'data
>>> elements' and 'data element group' as well
>>> 2) UID of admin, Super User, tracked entity was changed in payload to be
>>> same to where it is getting imported.
>>> I have manually resolved them and ran the importer again with
>>> atomicMode=ALL.
>>>
>>> I got exception as attached in trace file 'output_besteffort_trace.txt'
>>> Would these kind of issues be known only after the import has failed?
>>> and we need to resolve them one-by-one and as-and-when the importer throws
>>> them? Is there any note which has the details about the constraints being
>>> introduced in a new DHIS version?
>>>
>>> Alternatively, If we export a filtered set of metadata using '
>>> /api/24/metadata?filter=lastUpdated:gt:2016-05' and run the importer
>>> with atomicMode=NONE
>>>
>>> *curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST --data
>>> @metadata.224.newapi.json -u admin:district
>>> “http://localhost:8080/api/24/metadata?atomicMode=NONE
>>> <http://localhost:8080/api/24/metadata?atomicMode=NONE>” >
>>> output_created_besteffort_trace.txt*
>>>
>>> Getting below exception in trace. Complete trace also attached.
>>> -----
>>> * INFO 2016-08-26 15:58:38,217 (admin) Creating 57 object(s) of type
>>> ReportTable (DefaultObjectBundleService.java [qtp289378424-12])
>>> org.hibernate.TransientObjectException: object references an unsaved
>>> transient instance - save the transient instance before flushing:
>>> org.hisp.dhis.indicator.Indicator
>>> ------
>>> Any suggestions please.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Aamer.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Morten Olav Hansen <morten@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Aamer
>>>>
>>>> Probably what is happening is that the new database has some
>>>> constraints that the old one doesn't. We have had some issues with
>>>> hibernate in the past, and for certain databases that means that many of
>>>> the constraints was not applied..
>>>>
>>>> If you look at the messages, you will see that e.g `shortName` must be
>>>> unique for data elements.. the list of errors is not big though, probably
>>>> you can go through the payload and manually update the objects which has
>>>> issues?
>>>>
>>>> Another issue I see is that you are importing users, and those UIDs was
>>>> only stabilized in 2.23.. so you might want to also manually update those
>>>> (again, should not be a big job), this is not done as a startup routine..
>>>> just done when creating the admin user etc in a fresh database
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Morten Olav Hansen
>>>> Senior Engineer, DHIS 2
>>>> University of Oslo
>>>> http://www.dhis2.org
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Aamer Mohammed <
>>>> aamerm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Any thoughts please on the below approach. Let us know if any details
>>>>> are required from our end around this.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Aamer Mohammed <
>>>>> aamerm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Morten,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We have our metadata configured on a DHIS 2.21 instance. We have
>>>>>> sequentially upgraded this instance to 2.22, 2.23 and 2.24 by following the
>>>>>> upgrade notes for each of them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We want to export the metadata from this upgraded 2.24 instance and
>>>>>> import it to a fresh instance which is already on 2.24. We followed the
>>>>>> below steps.
>>>>>> 1) Export the metadata from the upgraded 2.24 instance using the new
>>>>>> exporter
>>>>>> *curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X GET -u username:password
>>>>>> http://xxxx:8080/api/24/metadata.json
>>>>>> <http://xxxx:8080/api/24/metadata.json> > metadata.224.newapi.json *
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2) Import the metadata using the new importer to a fresh instance
>>>>>> which is already on 2.24
>>>>>> *curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST --data
>>>>>> @metadata.224.newapi.json -u username:password
>>>>>> http://yyyy:8080/api/24/metadata <http://yyyy:8080/api/24/metadata> >
>>>>>> output.txt*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We see that none of the objects are getting imported. The complete
>>>>>> response of the importer is attached below. Any thoughts please. Also let
>>>>>> me know if any further details are required from our end.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>> Aamer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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