Hi Andrea,
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 12:31 AM, Andrea Aime <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi,
> the importer module has a REST API, which apparently can do the same as
> the GUI, and more,
> in a more automation friendly way.
>
Correct. One major limitation of the wicket UI for the importer is that the
data must be local.
However, there is no documentation, there is a few tests, but they look a
> bit programmatic
>
and the workflow they suggest seems sort of a multi-step one, something
> like:
> * create a import
> * populate its tasks
> * actually start the import
> * monitor its progress
>
Correct - it is a multi-step process. The idea is that a user might upload
a variety of data in a single zip file. This results in multiple tasks that
may or may not need configuration.
> But.. well, I could be misunderstanding.
>
> Soo... is there any published doc about the topic?
>
There is some in the docs directory - it may be outdated, however.
> Or someone will have to reverse engineer what's going on starting from the
> tests?
>
I had done some work to create a java client to make descriptive test cases
easier to write and execute but never completed it, but...
There is also a client library here and an integration test suite with a
narrower focus: https://github.com/boundlessgeo/gsimporter
Hope that helps
--
Ian Schneider
Software Engineer | Boundless <http://boundlessgeo.com>
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