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1 =pod
2
3
4 =head1 NEWS
5
6
7 =head4 2003-02-22 - enabled multiple task in-process synchronization ...
8
9 x using Data::Rap and rap.pl
10 x broke sync.pl...
11 o ... re-enable via Data::Transfer::Sync::API::V1?
12
13
14 =head4 2003-02-09 - backward compatibility with custom application
15
16 - Tangram <-> .csv
17 - Tangram <-> mysql
18 - Tangram <-> perl-code
19
20
21 =head4 2003-01-18 - started integration with Torus
22
23 - MAPI <-> LDAP
24 - please visit http://www.netfrag.org/horde/chora/cvs.php/perl/scripts/outlook2ldap/
25
26
27 =head4 2002-10-10 - initial commit
28
29 - Tangram <-> mysql
30
31
32
33 =head1 DESCRIPTION
34
35 Data::Transfer::Sync is a module providing a generic synchronization process
36 across arbitrary/multiple storages based on a ident/checksum mechanism.
37 It sits on top of Data::Storage.
38
39
40
41 =head1 REQUIREMENTS
42
43 =head3 dependencies
44
45 from CPAN or (for win32) a ppm-repository:
46 App::Config (CPAN only)
47 Tie::IxHash
48 Log::Dispatch
49 Log::Dispatch::Config
50 mixin
51 Hash::Merge
52 Tie::SecureHash
53 Date::Manip
54 Digest::MD5
55 ... and maybe some more.
56
57 from nfo/perl/libs:
58 Data::Compare
59 Data::Storage
60 Data::Transform
61 DesignPattern:: (to be renamed into Class::)
62 ... and all their dependencies. (like Data::UUID & Co.)
63
64
65 =head3 additional modules required for 'outlook2ldap'
66
67 Win32::OLE
68 Net::LDAP
69
70 =head3 additional modules required for 'db2db'
71
72 DBI
73 DBD::mysql
74 DBD::CSV
75 Tangram
76
77
78
79 =head1 AUTHORS / COPYRIGHT / LICENSE
80
81 The Data::Transfer::Sync module is Copyright (c) 2002, 2003 Andreas Motl.
82 All Rights Reserved.
83
84 Code contributions, suggestions, support and ideas by
85 Sebastian Utz <su@tunemedia.de> and Jan Hoffmann <janosch@ultrajan.de>.
86
87 You may distribute it under the terms of either the GNU General Public
88 License or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl README file.
89
90
91 =head1 COPYRIGHT NOTE
92
93 * CAESAR - Collaborative And Easy System ARchitecture
94 *
95 * Data Synchronization Module
96 *
97 * Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and its
98 * documentation is hereby granted, provided that both the copyright
99 * notice and this permission notice appear in all copies of the
100 * software, derivative works or modified versions, and any portions
101 * thereof, and that both notices appear in supporting documentation.
102 *
103 * NETFRAG.ORG AND THE AUTHOR ALLOW FREE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE
104 * IN ITS "AS IS" CONDITION. WE DISCLAIM ANY LIABILITY OF ANY KIND
105 * FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
106
107
108
109 =head1 SUPPORT / WARRANTY
110
111 Data::Transfer::Sync is free software. IT COMES WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.
112
113 Please feel free to contact me at <andreas.motl@ilo.de>.
114
115 Any improvements and contributions are greatly appreciated.
116
117 We have set up a newsgroup. (currently not much traffic)
118 Be welcome to visit news://news.netfrag.org/nfo.caesar or - if your system
119 lacks a newsreader - try http://news.netfrag.org/nfo.caesar .
120
121
122
123
124 =head1 TODO
125
126 =head4 overall
127
128 o try to get this stuff together with SyncML (http://syncml.org/) somehow ...?
129
130
131 =head4 this code
132
133 o sub _resolveIdentProvider
134 x wrap _doModifySource and _doTransferTarget around a core function which can change virtually any type of node
135 x split this module up into Sync.pm, Sync/Core.pm, Sync/Compare.pm and Sync/Compare/Checksum.pm
136 o introduce _compareNodes as a core method and wrap it around methods in Sync/Compare/Checksum.pm
137 x introduce Sync/Compare/MyComparisonImplementation.pm
138 o some generic deferring method - e.g. "$self->defer(action)" - to be able to accumulate a bunch of actions for later processing
139 - this implies everything done is _really_ split up into generic actions - how else would we defer them???
140 - example uses:
141 - fetch whole checksum list from node
142 - remember source ident retransmits
143 - remember: this is convenient - and maybe / of course faster - but we'll loose "per-node-atomic" operations
144 o feature: mechanism to implicit inject checksum property to nodes (alter table / modify schema)
145 o expand statistics / keep track of:
146 - touched/untouched nodes
147 o full sync
148 - just do a push and a pull for now but use stats for touched nodes in between to speed up things
149 o introduce some new metadata flags for a descent
150 - isNewNodePropagator
151 x isWriteProtected
152
153
154
155 =head1 EXAMPLE OUTPUT CHUNKS
156
157 =head2 Synchronizing orm objects against entries in a .csv file - 17 items modified
158
159 notice: PULL INTO backend NODE * TYPE Country SELECT NODE * TYPE [n/a] FROM base USING MODULE MyApp::ResourceMapping;
160 notice: OEF::Script::AbstractFeeder:
161 - Loading data of type [n/a] and
162 filtered by * from the storage named base
163 to the storage named backend - filtered by *.
164 - Will attempt to convert the data to Country.
165 info: Data::Transfer::Sync::API->syncNodes: source=backend/* [Country] <- target=base/* []
166 :c:c:c:c:c:c:c:ctr:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:ctr:c:c:c:c:c:c:ctr:c:ctr:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:ctr:c:c:c:ctr:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:ctr:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c
167 :c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:ctr:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:ctr:c:c:c:c:ctr:c:c:c:ctr:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:ctr:ctr:c:c:c:c:ctr:c:c:c:c:c:c:c
168 :c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:ctr:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:ctr:c:c:ctr:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c
169 info: Data::Transfer::Sync::Core->_startsync: statistics: in_sync: 180 / total: 197 / attempt_modify: 17 / ok: 17
170
171 =head2 Synchronizing orm objects against entries in a .csv file - all items in-sync
172
173 notice: PULL INTO backend NODE * TYPE Country SELECT NODE * TYPE [n/a] FROM base USING MODULE MyApp::ResourceMapping;
174 notice: OEF::Script::AbstractFeeder:
175 - Loading data of type [n/a] and
176 filtered by * from the storage named base
177 to the storage named backend - filtered by *.
178 - Will attempt to convert the data to Country.
179 info: Data::Transfer::Sync::API->syncNodes: source=backend/* [Country] <- target=base/* []
180 :c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c
181 :c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c
182 :c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c:c
183 info: Data::Transfer::Sync::Core->_startsync: statistics: in_sync: 197 / total: 197
184
185
186
187 =head1 BUGS
188
189 When in "import" mode for windows file - DBD::AutoCSV may hang.
190 Hint: Maybe the source node contains an ident-, but no checksum-column?
191
192
193 =head1 USER LEVEL ERRORS
194
195 =head4 Mapping
196
197 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
198 info: MyApp::Process::Setup->syncResource( source_node Currency mode PULL erase 0 import 0 )critical: MyApp::Process::Setup->startSync: Can't access mapping for node "Currency" - please check MyApp::ResourceMapping.
199 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
200 You have to create a sub for each node used in synchronization inside named Perl module. The name of this sub _must_ match
201 the name of the node you want to sync. This sub holds mapping metadata to give the engine hints about how
202 to access the otherwise generic nodes.
203 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
204
205
206 =head4 DBD::AutoCSV's rulebase
207
208 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
209 info: MyApp::Process::Setup->syncResource( source_node Currency mode PULL erase 0 import 0 )
210 info: Data::Transfer::Sync->syncNodes: source=L/Currency <- target=R/currencies.csv
211
212 Execution ERROR: Error while scanning: Missing first row or scanrule not applied. at C:/home/amo/develop/netfrag.org/nfo/perl/libs/DBD/CSV.p
213 m line 165, <GEN9> line 1.
214 called from C:/home/amo/develop/netfrag.org/nfo/perl/libs/Data/Storage/Handler/DBI.pm at 123.
215
216 DBI-Error: DBD::AutoCSV::st fetchrow_hashref failed: Attempt to fetch row from a Non-SELECT statement
217 notice: Data::Transfer::Sync->syncNodes: No nodes to synchronize.
218 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
219 DBD::AutoCSV contains a rulebase which is spooled down while attempting to guess the style of the csv file regarding
220 parameters like newline (eol), column-seperation-character (sep_char), quoting character (quote_char).
221 If this spool runs out of entries and no style could be resolved, DBD::CSV dies causing this "Execution ERROR" which
222 results in a "DBI-Error" afterwards.
223 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
224
225
226 =head4 Check structure of source node
227
228 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
229 info: Data::Transfer::Sync->syncNodes: source=L/Currency <- target=R/currencies.csv
230 critical: Data::Transfer::Sync->syncNodes: Can not synchronize: No ident found in source node, maybe try to "import" this node first.
231 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
232 If lowlevel detection succeeds, but no other required informations are found, this message is issued.
233 "Other informations" might be:
234 - column-header-row completely missing
235 - ident column is empty
236 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
237
238
239 =head4 Modify structure of source node
240
241 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
242 info: Data::Transfer::Sync->syncNodes: source=L/Currency <- target=R/currencies.csv
243 info: Data::Transfer::Sync->_prepareNode_MetaProperties( descent source )
244 warning: Data::Transfer::Sync->_prepareNode_MetaProperties: node is lacking meta properties - will try to alter...
245 SQL ERROR: Command 'ALTER' not recognized or not supported!
246
247 SQL ERROR: Command 'ALTER' not recognized or not supported!
248 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
249 The Engine found a node which structure does not match the required. It tries to alter this automatically - only when doing "import" -
250 but the DBD driver (in this case DBD::CSV) gets in the way croaking not to be able to do this.
251 This could also appear if your database connection has insufficient rights to modify the database structure.
252 DBD::CSV croaks because it doesn't implement the ALTER command, so please edit your columns manually.
253 Hint: Add columns with the names of your "ident" and "checksum" property specifications.
254 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
255
256
257 =head4 Load source node by ident
258
259 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
260 info: Data::Transfer::Sync->_prepareNode_DummyIdent( descent source )
261 pcritical: Data::Transfer::Sync->_modifyNode failed: "source" node is empty.
262 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
263 The source node could not be loaded. Maybe the ident is missing. Please check manually.
264 Hint: Like above, the ident and/or checksum columns may be missing....
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266
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268
269
270 =cut

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