On Thursday, January 16, 2014 8:00 PM, [email protected] wrote > I finally got the second delegator to work. The external db delegator > throws errors initially because it cannot find OFBiz tables but works as > needed the warnings are thrown. Most of the instructions to get to this > point was provided in > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Handling+of+External+data > but it doesn't include anything about renaming readers and loaders which > seems necessary in order for start not to fail. > > I think more documentation is needed on the subject of the creation and > use of new delegators.
You might improve it yourself in the open wiki. You need to register and ask here for a contributor access. For closed spaces, you can drop a comment and we will integrate it (or not) Jacques > On 01/16/2014 12:18 PM, Christian Carlow wrote: >> I plan on using mini-lang simple-methods to implement the import >> scripts and noticed that the <entity-condition> tag has a >> delegator-name attribute. I'm not sure if this means it is required to >> create a separate delegator when connecting to external dbs with >> entities names matching those of OFBiz. I'll probably trying creating >> a separate delegator again to handle the external db. >> >> On 01/16/2014 11:53 AM, Christian Carlow wrote: >>> Seems like the relevant information to resolve this issue has been >>> removed from >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/OFBIZ/ofbiz-tutorial-a-beginners-development-guide.html. >>> >>> On 01/16/2014 10:53 AM, Christian Carlow wrote: >>>> I'm working on importing data into OFBiz and have encountered a >>>> stoppage issue related to external db entity names matching those of >>>> OFBiz. I added a <group-name> element to the default delegator in >>>> entityengine.xml because I gave up trying to create a separate >>>> delegator for the external entity described in >>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Handling+of+External+data. >>>> I suppose if a separate delegator existed to handle the external db >>>> then there wouldn't be a conflict. >>>> >>>> The documentation instructs to refer to >>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/OFBIZ/ofbiz-tutorial-a-beginners-development-guide.html >>>> on how to clean up entities that match the current DB but I can't >>>> find anything in that doc that mentioned cleanup. >>>> >>>> Can someone advise how these cases are typically handled? >>> >> ``````````````````````
