Re: [Gusdev-gusdev] Pipeline Manager change

[John I. <io...@pc...>]

Dave,

That's a good point -- suppose Debbie is partway through the mouse build
and I start ApiDots; she wouldn't want to switch Prodom releases in
mid-build.

Would it be possible for the "get new release" stage to store the
release ID it created somewhere for later access, such as in a file
whose name was specified in the config file?

John


On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 11:42, Dave Barkan wrote:
> Hey John--see below.
> 
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, John Iodice wrote:
> 
> > Adding a pipeline step for new external database release IDs is a great
> > idea.  I have noticed in the past that when people insert a record
> > "manually" (that is, with UpdateGusFromXML or SubmitRow), they tend to
> > supply only the minimum info, to the extent of populating required
> > fields with the string of "unknown".  I've been guilty of this myself.
> > Hopefully, records created programmatically will document the DB release
> > better.
> 
> Me too, but what I had in mind wasn't explicit functionality to load new 
> DB releases, just a generic step in the Manager that exits and prints out 
> information to the user.  I do remember writing a simple plugin that loads 
> a new release into ExternalDatabaseRelease; it is in Common but I don't 
> think it adds much over SubmitRow except to name ExternalDatabaseRelease 
> attributes explicitly as parameters.
> 
> >
> > Question: is there a way to avoid editing the properties file to include
> > the new release ID?
> >
> > In many cases, we want the latest release of the given external
> > database.  Could we create a utility that takes an external database ID
> > and finds the ID of its latest release?
> 
> The only thing I could think of is to query for the latest release for a 
> particular database, but this is dangerous; there could well be new 
> releases loaded that for one reason or another we don't want to use (I 
> think that is the case with GO right now; there is a new release loaded 
> since the last time we made rules against GO terms.)  Maybe the latest 
> release could be the default though, unless the user overrides it with a 
> property.
> 
> I'd be interested to hear Steve's plans for loading 3rd party data and 
> whether they include handling entries in the XDBR table.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > If we could do something like that, it would not only simplify a manual
> > step, it would completely automate it.
> >
> > On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 17:39, Dave Barkan wrote:
> >> Hey all,
> >>
> >> I noticed something that is a bit of a pain in the neck when running our
> >> pipeline; whenever we load external data, we have to make sure that there
> >> is a new entry in the ExternalDatabaseRelease table for that data.  The
> >> way I've always handled this is to make those by hand before the pipeline
> >> runs and set the database release IDs in the pipeline properties file.
> >>
> >> I think a better way would be to have a step in the Pipeline that does it
> >> for you for each database release you have to load.  Values for the
> >> database release entry could either go in the properties file or be parsed
> >> from the file you are loading depending on availability.
> >>
> >> This is easy enough to implement, but often we need to use the database
> >> release ids later in the pipeline.  There isn't any way to automatically
> >> set these as internal properties; we really need to add them by hand to
> >> the pipeline properties file.
> >>
> >> I am going to add a method to Manager.pm that the pipeline can call named
> >> "waitForUser" (or something similar).  It will just exit the pipeline with
> >> a message, and in this case it can say "Please set the following property
> >> in the pipeline properties file:  flyDB=XXXX".  It is sort of a generic
> >> implementation of the 'exitToLiniac' method that we have already.  Then
> >> the user can set this property and start the pipeline again.
> >>
> >> Dave
> >>
> >>
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