Hi Karim,
thanks for your initiative and for spearheading this endeavour.
I haven't tried the export myself, but maybe we can take a look at it on
Sunday during the dev sprint.
Christoph
Karim Malhas wrote:
Dear Devs,
Since I started working with Mapbender I have been confused by the code
and the database. It is not readily apparent (or I am a little slow on
the uptake) what does what and how, and the interfaces are not defined
constistently
Not understanding what something I am interested in is about annoys me,
and I thought I could to better. So I started my endevavour to classify
the things that we use in Mapbender and if possible put a consistant
interface on it - turns out the second part gave me a headache
and I thought that if my works leads me to the conclusion that I
would want to change the datastructure I would just be doing
extra work for nothing - so I made it readonly.
You get can get the code and take a look (see below). There is some
testing code, but after I decided I only wanted a serialization,
I stopped writing it.
The interesting parts of each class are it's 'load' and 'toXML' methods.
The classes that are named in plural form, are just containers
which allow loading a set of objects, some with the possibility
to filter, e.g. all user in a group.
An example output can be found here:
http://karim.malhas.de/misc/output.html
The code is not complete, terrible in places, and for all I know might break
everything. Don't use it on an important data.
If someone has an idea where I can get a larger Mapbender database dump
to play with, please let me know.
Instructions:
$ git clone http://karim.malhas.de/dev/mapbender_export.git
$ cd mapbender_export
$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update arcticjs
now adjust the database settings in test/data/mapender.conf
(or change the path in export.php)
$ make simple
(or just running export.php on the Commandline)
will create the XML file for you.
There are some convenince functions, which depend on xsltproc and
xmlstarlt to be installed on your system:
$ make vim
will display the formatted file in vim
$ make uzbl
will create output.html and attempt to open it in the uzbl browser (which
you probably don't have installed, but really, it's great)
Regards,
Karim
P.S. What's the reason this list is called mapbender_dev, but is tagged
[Mapbender-dev] (- vs. _) anyone else thinks this mismatch should be fixed?
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