Importer

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Importer are the components of the application that are responsible for converting one's archive native data into the DISMARC compliant format.

The importer consists of three sub components.

  1. Settings,
  2. Reader and
  3. Mapper

Contents

Settings

Actually, the Importer is just some lines of XML which contain the information about what files shall be imported from where with what Reader and what Mapper in what encoding. 

<Importer active="true" db="0" archive="ARCHIVE" id="ARCHIVE_NATIVE_TO_DMOAP" description="Default Archive importer" indexAfterSave="true">
 <Reader class="importparser.recordreaders.DummyReader" />
 <Mapper class="importparser.mapper.DummyMapper" />
 <DefaultEncoding>utf-8</DefaultEncoding>
 <NewFilesDir pattern="/xml/">Archive/newfiles</NewFilesDir>
 <RepositoryDir>Archive/repository</RepositoryDir>
 <LogFile>Archive/Archive.log</LogFile>
 <ContactMail>someone@archive.local</ContactMail>
</Importer>

Classes

The Reader and the Mapper elements provide the path and classname of the proper reader and mapper

Importer

@active 
When run as a cronjob, shall this importer be used.
@db 
What Database to use
@archive 
To what archive does this importer belong to
@id 
What's the ID of the mapper.
@description 
Some description of what the importer is about
@indexAfterSave 
shall the records be indexed right after they have been saved? This is only used during the automated import.

DefaultEncoding

This is the encoding the files is written in. Use UTF-8 for XML.

NewFilesDir

Where can the importer find new files when used during the automated import. This directory will be read recursive.

@pattern
What pattern the files have to match.

RepositoryDir

Where to put the files form the NewfileDir. Do not put the files into a subdirectory of NewfileDir for there can be a endless loop

ContactMail

Whenever an automated import is done, where shall the import summary will be sent to?

Importing process

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