Hi Nishadi,

Would you mind sharing the latest status of your efforts on this?

Thanks

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Akila Ravihansa Perera <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Here are some important improvements that you can do to boost your
> development productivity and stability of the tool.
>
> 1. Develop a set of Unit tests with an embedded web container to mock the
> PPaaS API.
>
>  - I've already done this as a demo for you to take as a reference guide
> at [1]. I've used Jetty web container as an embedded server in my JUnit
> test case to mock the API. I've hosted partition list API in my test server
> and assert whether artifact loader reads the partition list correctly.
>
> Advantage of this approach is that when you build your tool, it will
> compile the code, test and validate the functionality and package. You
> don't need to test the tool manually which is very time consuming. You may
> have to refactor/re-organize stuff I've developed to make things clean.
>
> 2. Create a class ArtifactConverterRestClient as a wrapper around
> HttpClient library and use it to fetch resources from Stratos API. You can
> create methods like getPartitionList, getAutoscalePolicyList etc. in this.
> Decouple your conversion logic from data transfer layer much as possible.
> This will make it easy for you to write tests.
>
>
> 3. Always use HTTPS if you are sending/receiving sensitive information. In
> current implementation the tool is passing authentication credentials to
> the server, therefore transport should be secure.
>
> 4. Make user input parameters configurable via configuration files.
> Currently the tool expects username, password, url etc. as user inputs.
> Make it read these values from a properties file and prompt only if those
> values are missing.
>
> [1] https://github.com/nishadi/product-private-paas/pull/1
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Nishadi Kirielle <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thank you for the feedback.
>>
>> @Imesh:
>> I have updated the README file[1] in mark down text format and will
>> start writing the Wiki page.
>>
>> @Gayan:
>> In the initial version, we have used sample json files as templates and
>> used them to be default values. But as it has some conflicts, we have
>> removed the use of template files. The current approach is to fetch the
>> artifacts from the PPaaS 4.0.0 and convert it to PPaaS 4.1.0 without using
>> any default values. I have updated the READ ME file [1]
>>
>> @Isuru:
>> I will take the approach proposed to handle exceptions in
>> OldArtifactLoader by wrapping them in a custom exception and update it. I
>> will update the log4j properties file to be in the conf directory.
>>
>> [1]
>> https://github.com/nishadi/product-private-paas/blob/master/tools/migration/ppaas-artifact-converter/README
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Nishadi
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 9:28 AM, Isuru Haththotuwa <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Malmee and Nishadi,
>>>
>>> Good progress in a short time!
>>>
>>> Had a glance at the code, couple of things I noticed:
>>>
>>>    1. log4j.properties file is available under conf directory as well
>>>    as the resources directory. Ideally should be in conf directory.
>>>    2. In the class OldArtifactLoader [1], the methods are throwing
>>>    IOException in an error scenario. A better approach would be to wrap that
>>>    with a custom exception (ex.: ArtifactLoadingException, etc.) and throw 
>>> it.
>>>    WDYT? In the class Transformation [2], this approach is followed.
>>>
>>> [1].
>>> https://github.com/nishadi/product-private-paas/blob/master/tools/migration/ppaas-artifact-converter/src/main/java/org/wso2/ppaas/tools/artifactmigration/loader/OldArtifactLoader.java
>>>
>>> [2].
>>> https://github.com/nishadi/product-private-paas/blob/master/tools/migration/ppaas-artifact-converter/src/main/java/org/wso2/ppaas/tools/artifactmigration/Transformation.java
>>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 10:25 PM, Gayan Gunarathne <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Great stuff. This is a really important tool in the case of Private
>>>> PaaS migration.
>>>>
>>>> As per the README[1] it mention as "Add the default values to the
>>>> templates folder, if needed".I am not clear on that? Are we packing the
>>>> 4.1.0 artifacts templates with the artifact migration tool? So user need to
>>>> put the default values for those artifacts?
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>> https://github.com/nishadi/product-private-paas/blob/master/tools/migration/ppaas-artifact-converter/README
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Gayan
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Nishadi Kirielle <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently,we are engaged in developing an artifact migration tool to
>>>>> be used to fetch the artifact json files from PPaaS 4.0.0 REST API
>>>>> endpoints and convert them to be compatible with PPaaS 4.1.0. [1]
>>>>>
>>>>> We have implemented the conversions for the following artifacts ;
>>>>>    - auto scale policy artifacts
>>>>>    - network partition list artifacts
>>>>>    - deployment policy artifacts
>>>>>    - cartridge artifacts
>>>>>
>>>>> Now we are implementing the conversion of cartridge subscription
>>>>> artifacts to application signups and domain mapping subscriptions.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please raise if there are any concerns regarding this work.
>>>>>
>>>>> [1]
>>>>> https://github.com/nishadi/product-private-paas/tree/master/tools/migration/ppaas-artifact-converter
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Nishadi
>>>>>
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