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[Victor Garcia <vgarciabnz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Version 2.24r23585.
New importer endpoint: /api/24/metadata

On 1 September 2016 at 03:01, Morten Olav Hansen <morten@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What version if DHIS and which endpoint are you using?
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> On Wednesday, 31 August 2016, Victor Garcia <vgarciabnz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> we have found a strange behavior in the new metadata importer.
>>
>> Let's create two related orgunits, "Project" (parent) and "Health Site"
>> (child), and export them using the new exporter which defaults to order by
>> 'name'. The payload will contain "Project" first and "Health Site" later.
>>
>> Then, if we import the file in another instance using the new importer,
>> it gives us the following:
>> 1. Project orgunit is correctly imported.
>> 2. Health Site orgunit is imported, but the "parent" field is left empty,
>> and also the path is wrong. In fact, it is created as another *root
>> orgunit!*
>>
>> I don't know if the new importer expects ordered elements, but this
>> behavior is quite dangerous... We test the same file with old importer, and
>> it works fine.
>>
>> You can find attached a payload that can be used with demo server (it
>> hangs from Sierra Leone orgunit).
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Víctor
>>
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> Morten Olav Hansen
> Senior Engineer, DHIS 2
> University of Oslo
> http://www.dhis2.org
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