I’ll provide a detailed answer on this today. Sorry been on baby duties and enjoying every minute of it! :)
— Chris Mattmann chris.mattm...@gmail.com -----Original Message----- From: "Pierce, Marlon" <marpi...@iu.edu> Reply-To: <dev@oodt.apache.org> Date: Monday, August 3, 2015 at 8:14 AM To: "d...@airavata.apache.org" <d...@airavata.apache.org>, "dev@oodt.apache.org" <dev@oodt.apache.org> Subject: Re: Feasibility of using OODT file manager in Airavata >Hi Dimuthu- > >In regards to question #2, there should not be any licensing issues. > >Marlon > > >From: DImuthu Upeksha ><dimuthu.upeks...@gmail.com<mailto:dimuthu.upeks...@gmail.com>> >Reply-To: "d...@airavata.apache.org<mailto:d...@airavata.apache.org>" ><d...@airavata.apache.org<mailto:d...@airavata.apache.org>> >Date: Saturday, August 1, 2015 at 12:40 AM >To: "d...@airavata.apache.org<mailto:d...@airavata.apache.org>" ><d...@airavata.apache.org<mailto:d...@airavata.apache.org>>, >"dev@oodt.apache.org<mailto:dev@oodt.apache.org>" ><dev@oodt.apache.org<mailto:dev@oodt.apache.org>> >Subject: Feasibility of using OODT file manager in Airavata > >Hi all, > >I have been working on integrating a file staging server for Apache >Airavata as a part of my GSoC project. Main purpose of doing this is to >manage and store input/ output files for Airavata experiments. > >Main use case is as follows. > >1. Clients (users) can push input files and metadata to file server (OODT >file manager) and should receive the url/ identifier of uploaded file to >provide to Airavata >2. Users submit experiments to Airavata with the url of uploaded input >file >3. Airavata should be able to fetch the input file over SCP or some other >mechanism. If the file server exists in same machine where Airavata also >has been hosted, Airavata can directly fetch the file from the repository >folder. > 4. Once the experiment (job) is done, Airavata should be able to push >output files to file server and notify the client. >5. Client should be able to download the output file. > >In addition to that, enforcing security in uploading and downloading >files is required. > >I tried OODT file manager by following this [1] tutorial and managed to >push and download files using command line tools. Before going in to >integration, I need to know some details about the feasibility of using >OODT file manager for this scenario. > >1. Can OODT file manager simulate the role of file server that I have >mentioned earlier without using other modules of OODT project? >2. Is there any licensing issue if I use OODT file manager in Airavata? >3. What is the preferred way of using file manager client to talk to the >file manager programatically? Simply, is there a Java API for file >manager client rather than cli commands? > >[1] >https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OODT/OODT+Filemgr+User+Guide > >Thank You >Dimuthu >-- >Regards > >W.Dimuthu Upeksha >Undergraduate > >Department of Computer Science And Engineering > >University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
